ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,329,566, issued on June 17, was assigned to University of Utah Research Foundation (Salt Lake City).
"Systems and methods for modulation of deep brain circuits" was invented by Jan Kubanek (Salt Lake City).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for applying therapeutic ultrasound to the brain to compensate for attenuation and dephasing of ultrasound by each individual's head. The compensation is based on relative ultrasound through-transmit measurements, which are performed using a set of ultrasonic emitters over one side of the head and a set of receivers on the other side. The measurements are performed with the head absent ...