US Patent Issued to The Trustees of the University of Pennsylvania on Dec. 2 for "Method and apparatus for improving cognitive performance" (Pennsylvania Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,485,282, issued on Dec. 2, was assigned to The Trustees of the University of Pennsylvania (Philadelphia).

"Method and apparatus for improving cognitive performance" was invented by Michael Kahana (Merion Station, Pa.) and Daniel S. Rizzuto (Philadelphia).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for delivering electrical stimulation to alter a cognitive state of a user, the method comprising: monitoring a brain signal from the user via one or more intracranial electrodes implanted in the brain of the user while the user is presented with a stimulus; comparing the brain signal to a testing phase biomarker, wherein the testing phase biomarker ...