US Patent Issued to The Hong Kong Polytechnic University on April 15 for "System and method for detection of impairment in cognitive function" (Chinese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,278,012, issued on April 15, was assigned to The Hong Kong Polytechnic University (Hong Kong).

"System and method for detection of impairment in cognitive function" was invented by Kup Sze Choi (Kowloon, Hong Kong) and Xiao Shen (Kowloon, Hong Kong).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A machine learning method predicts whether a specified subject is at high risk of developing cognitive impairment based upon a data record for said specified subject, and a method of training a dual neural network for such. These methods may work by automatically classifying said subject into a first class associated with a first predicted risk of cognitive impair...