US Patent Issued to William Marsh Rice University, Baylor College of Medicine on Nov. 25 for "Minimally invasive deep brain stimulation using electromagnetic waves" (Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,478,788, issued on Nov. 25, was assigned to William Marsh Rice University (Houston) and Baylor College of Medicine (Houston).

"Minimally invasive deep brain stimulation using electromagnetic waves" was invented by Fatima Ahsan (Houston), Taiyun Chi (Houston), Raymond Cho (Houston), Sameer A. Sheth (Houston), Wayne Goodman (Houston) and Behnaam Aazhang (Houston).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for minimally invasive deep brain simulation (DBS) involves obtaining a target location for the DBS, obtaining an anatomical model, and simulatively determining, for a set of antennas endocranially implanted at first positions and emitting el...