ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,232,799, issued on Feb. 25, was assigned to Arrinex Inc. (Redwood City, Calif.).

"Integrated nasal nerve detector ablation-apparatus, nasal nerve locator, and methods of use" was invented by William Jason Fox (San Mateo, Calif.), David Moosavi (Redwood City, Calif.), Mojgan Saadat (Atherton, Calif.), Vahid Saadat (Atherton, Calif.), Caroline Sobek (Redwood City, Calif.) and Neekon Saadat (Redwood City, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and related methods for identifying and/or ablating targeted nerves are provided. A probe with stimulating electrodes and/or ablation members are provided. The probe may be inserted into a nasa...