US Patent Issued to The United States of America, as represented by the Secretary, Department of Health and Human Services, The Henry M. Jackson Foundation for the Advancement of Military Medicine on July 1 for "Multidimensional MRI signature for specific detection of traumatic brain injury in vivo" (Maryland Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,343,132, issued on July 1, was assigned to The United States of America, as represented by the Secretary, Department of Health and Human Services (Bethesda, Md.) and The Henry M. Jackson Foundation for the Advancement of Military Medicine Inc. (Bethesda, Md.).

"Multidimensional MRI signature for specific detection of traumatic brain injury in vivo" was invented by Dan Haim Benjamini (Bethesda, Md.), Peter J. Basser (Bethesda, Md.) and Diego Iacono (Bethesda, Md.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Multidimensional MRI-based methods permit identification and categorization of brain specimens to identify sub-voxel tissue components that are spec...