ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,340,018, issued on June 24, was assigned to Snap Inc. (Santa Monica, Calif.).

"Brain-computer interface" was invented by Nicolas Barascud (Paris), Paul Roujansky (Paris), Clement Royen (Paris) and Sid Kouider (Paris).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An adaptive calibration method in a brain-computer interface is disclosed. The method is used to reliably associate a neural signal to an object whose attendance by a user elicited that neural signal. A visual stimulus overlaying one or more objects is provided, at least a portion of the visual stimulus having a characteristic modulation. The brain computer interface measures neural response to ...