US Patent Issued to The Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University on Feb. 10 for "Predicting successful generation and inhibition of seizure-like afterdischarges and mapping their seizure networks using FMRI" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,544,588, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to The Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University (Stanford, Calif.).

"Predicting successful generation and inhibition of seizure-like afterdischarges and mapping their seizure networks using FMRI" was invented by Ben A. Duffy (Palo Alto, Calif.), ManKin Choy (Redwood City, Calif.) and Jin Hyung Lee (Palo Alto, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Success in generating or curtailing seizures is related to their onset time, with inhibition proving less effective on earlier-onset afterdischarges. To identify targets for intervention, fMRI or simultaneous fMRI-LFP is used to map the ...