Patents by Inventor Fernando Vale

Fernando Vale has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • System and method for modeling negatively correlated brain epilepsy network
    Patent number: 12478256
    Abstract: System and method for processing, non-concurrently collected, electroencephalogram (EEG) data and resting state functional magnetic resonance imaging (rsfMRI) data, non-invasively, to create a patient-specific three-dimensional (3D) mapping of the patient's functional brain network. The mapping can be used to more precisely identify candidates of resective neurosurgery and to help create a targeted surgical plan for those patients. The methodology automatically maps the patient's unique brain network using non-concurrent EEG and resting state functional MRI (rsfMRI). Generally, the current invention merges EEG data and rsfMRI data to map the patient's epilepsy/seizure network. Correlated sections of the brain and inversely correlated sections of the brain are identified to determine which sections of the brain work in conjunction with each other and which sections work oppositely to each other during epileptic episodes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 25, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 25, 2025
    Assignee: University of South Florida
    Inventors: Elliot G. Neal, Fernando Vale
  • System and Method for Modeling Negatively Correlated Brain Epilepsy Network
    Publication number: 20220248959
    Abstract: System and method for processing, non-concurrently collected, electroencephalogram (EEG) data and resting state functional magnetic resonance imaging (rsfMRI) data, non-invasively, to create a patient-specific three-dimensional (3D) mapping of the patient's functional brain network. The mapping can be used to more precisely identify candidates of resective neurosurgery and to help create a targeted surgical plan for those patients. The methodology automatically maps the patient's unique brain network using non-concurrent EEG and resting state functional MRI (rsfMRI). Generally, the current invention merges EEG data and rsfMRI data to map the patient's epilepsy/seizure network. Correlated sections of the brain and inversely correlated sections of the brain are identified to determine which sections of the brain work in conjunction with each other and which sections work oppositely to each other during epileptic episodes.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 25, 2021
    Publication date: August 11, 2022
    Inventors: Elliot G. NEAL, Fernando VALE
  • Noninvasive system and method for mapping epileptic networks and surgical planning
    Patent number: 10588561
    Abstract: System and method for processing, non-concurrently collected, electroencephalogram (EEG) data and resting station functional magnetic resonance imaging (rsfMRI) data, non-invasively, to create a patient-specific three-dimensional (3D) mapping of the patient's functional brain network. The mapping can be used to more precisely identify candidates of resective neurosurgery and to help create a targeted surgical plan for those patients. The methodology automatically maps the patient's unique brain network using non-concurrent EEG and resting state functional MRI (rsfMRI). Generally, the current invention merges non-concurrent EEG data and rsfMRI data to map the patient's epilepsy/seizure network.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 29, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 17, 2020
    Assignee: University of South Florida
    Inventors: Fernando Vale, Elliot George Neal