ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,350,495, issued on July 8, was assigned to BaroPace Inc. (Ashland, Ore.).
"Method of treatment of drug resistant hypertension" was invented by Michael Burnam (Ashland, Ore.) and Eli Gang (Los Angeles).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of right atrial pacing of a heart of a patient includes the steps of: stimulating right atrial tissue of the heart using a right atrial lead of a dual chamber cardiac pacemaker to pace the heart with a stimulus architecture protocol; and stimulating local sympathetic and/or parasympathetic tissues with the stimulus architecture protocol proximate to the paced right atrial tissue causing nervous system a...