ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,310,916, issued on May 27, was assigned to The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, Calif.).

"Real-time methods to enable precision-guided CPR to improve neurological outcome and predict brain damage after ischemic injury and reperfusion" was invented by Robert H. Wilson (Irvine, Calif.), Christian Crouzet (Irvine, Calif.), Yama Akbari (Irvine, Calif.), Bernard Choi (Irvine, Calif.) and Bruce J. Tromberg (Irvine, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A multimodal optical imaging platform is used to obtain cerebral perfusion-metabolism mismatch metrics for rapid assessment of acute brain injury, ongoing (real-time) feedback t...