US Patent Issued to University of Pittsburgh-Of the Commonwealth System of Higher Education on May 6 for "Noninvasive, regional brain thermal stimulation for inducing relaxation" (Pennsylvania Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,290,640, issued on May 6, was assigned to University of Pittsburgh-Of the Commonwealth System of Higher Education (Pittsburgh).

"Noninvasive, regional brain thermal stimulation for inducing relaxation" was invented by Eric A. Nofzinger (Allison Park, Pa.) and Jeffrey J. Schirm (Monroeville, Pa.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods, systems and devices for reducing anxiety, including increasing relaxation and/or calm. In some variations these methods may include reducing anxiety, increase relaxation and/or calm by non-invasive temperature regulation of the frontal cortex prior to and/or during sleep. The subject may have an anxiety diso...