ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,311,164, issued on May 27, was assigned to Board of Regents, The University of Texas System (Austin, Texas) and National Autonomous University of Mexico (Mexico City).
"Devices and methods for neuromodulation" was invented by Mario I. Romero-Ortega (Coppell, Texas), Margarita Martinez-Gomez (Tlaxcala, Mexico), Stuart F. Cogan (Dallas) and Aswini Kanneganti (Richardson, Texas).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In one aspect, a neuromodulation device is described herein. In some embodiments, a neuromodulation device comprises a chamber operable to receive a nerve, at least one electrode disposed in the chamber, and a channel defined by two wal...