ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,257,434, issued on March 25, was assigned to BAROLOGICS INC. (Carver, Minn.).
"Carotid sinus nerve stimulation" was invented by Dimitrios Georgakopoulos (Plymouth, Minn.) and Molly Wade (Carver, Minn.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods and systems for stimulating nerve fibers to treat a condition in a patient are disclosed herein. Such methods can include stimulating, via an electrode device, afferent fibers associated with baroreceptors and/or a carotid sinus nerve of a patient; sensing a heart rate of the patient; and adjusting a stimulation frequency of the afferent fibers based on the sensed heart rate. The heart rate can be ind...