ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,394,512, issued on Aug. 19, was assigned to Neuronetics Inc. (Malvern, Pa.).

"Head modeling for a therapeutic or diagnostic procedure" was invented by Neeraj Mainkar (Minneapolis), Ravi Pillutla (Audubon, Pa.), Kenneth Marc Ghiron (Malvern, Pa.) and Mark Edward Riehl (Doylestown, Pa.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A model of a human subject's head may be generated to assist in a therapeutic and/or diagnostic procedure. A treatment and/or diagnostic system may generate a fitted head model using a predetermined head model and a plurality of points. The plurality of points may include facial feature information and may be determined using a...