ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,508,425, issued on Dec. 30, was assigned to Covidien LP (Mansfield, Mass.).
"Bilateral vagus nerve stimulation" was invented by Randal C. Schulhauser (Phoenix), Richard J. O'Brien (Hugo, Minn.), Scott R. Stanslaski (Shoreview, Minn.), Mark P. Ashby (Laguna Niguel, Calif.), Avram Scheiner (Vadnais Heights, Minn.), Becky L. Dolan (Chisago, Minn.), William Valls Jr. (Chandler, Ariz.), David J. Miller (Austin, Texas), Varun Umesh Kashyap (Irvine, Calif.), Peter N. Braido (Linwood, Minn.) and Lilian Kornet (Eijsden, Netherlands).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An example system includes a first lead configured to be positioned in or beside a le...