ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,340,473, issued on June 24, was assigned to Research & Business Foundation Sungkyunkwan University (Suwon-si, South Korea).

"Guidance method for motor imagery and apparatus thereof" was invented by Jonghyun Kim (Seoul, South Korea) and Hojun Jeong (Suwon-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided is a technique that trains motor imagery to reinforce brain waves, and a guidance method for motor imagery displays virtual reality including a virtual body part corresponding to a user's real body part the user, detects a movement of the real body part through a motion sensor to track a motion, and visually displays the movement of...