US Patent Issued to The Regents of the University of California on Jan. 27 for "Kilohertz transcranial magnetic perturbation (kTMP) system" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,533,524, issued on Jan. 27, was assigned to The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, Calif.).

"Kilohertz transcranial magnetic perturbation (kTMP) system" was invented by Richard Irwin Ivry (El Cerrito, Calif.), Daniel J. Sheltraw (Albany, Calif.), Ludovica Labruna (Kensington, Calif.) and Benjamin A. Inglis (Lafayette, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A magnetic stimulation system includes a magnetic coil to generate an electric field of a magnitude having a desired effect on a brain, a voltage to current source to generate a current waveform having an amplitude and frequency to produce the electric field, and a contro...