US Patent Issued to Discure Technologies on Sept. 23 for "Synergistic therapies for inter vertebral disc degeneration" (Israeli Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,420,085, issued on Sept. 23, was assigned to Discure Technologies Ltd (Herzliya, Israel).

"Synergistic therapies for inter vertebral disc degeneration" was invented by Yuval Mandelbaum (Gat-Rimon, Israel), Yossi Gross (Moshav Mazor, Israel) and Yehuda Zadok (Kiryat Ono, Israel).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for treating an intervertebral disc of a subject is provided, the method including delivering a growth factor to a nucleus pulposus of the intervertebral disc. At least one intra-pulposus exposed electrode surface is implanted in the nucleus pulposus. At least one extra-pulposus exposed electrode surface is implanted in a bo...