ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,437,876, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to ZHEJIANG LAB (Hangzhou, China).

"Disease prediction system and apparatus based on multi-relation functional connectivity matrix" was invented by Yu Zhang (Hangzhou, China), Jun Li (Hangzhou, China), Chaoliang Sun (Hangzhou, China), Huan Zhang (Hangzhou, China), Zhichao Wang (Hangzhou, China) and Jingsong Li (Hangzhou, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed are a disease prediction method, system and apparatus based on a multi-relation functional connectivity matrix. A Pearson correlation coefficient matrix and a DTW distance matrix are respectively calculated according to resting state fu...