US Patent Issued to THORNHILL SCIENTIFIC on Oct. 21 for "Method and system of measuring brain oxygenation using deoxyhemoglobin contrast" (Canadian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,446,803, issued on Oct. 21, was assigned to THORNHILL SCIENTIFIC INC. (North York, Canada).

"Method and system of measuring brain oxygenation using deoxyhemoglobin contrast" was invented by Joseph Arnold Fisher (Thornhill, Canada), Olivia Sobczyk (Etobicoke, Canada), James Duffin (Toronto), Julien Poublanc (Toronto), David J. Mikulis (Oakville, Canada) and Ece Su Sayin (Windsor, Canada).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present specification discloses a method for measuring brain tissue oxygenation in a subject. The method comprises the following steps: measuring a magnetic signal in a reference voxel of the subject's brain while imposin...