ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,551,158, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to The University of Birmingham (Birmingham, Great Britain).

"Traumatic brain injury detection" was invented by Neil Eisenstein (London), Carl Banbury (Birmingham, Great Britain), Michael Clancy (Birmingham, Great Britain), Pola Goldberg Oppenheimer (Birmingham, Great Britain), Richard Blanch (London), Antonio Belli (Birmingham, Great Britain) and Ann Logan (Birmingham, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Apparatus for the non-invasive in-vivo determination of changes in tissue, e.g. the myelination, of the optic nerve (ON) in a biological subject, said apparatus comprising: a laser sourc...