ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,357,828, issued on July 15, was assigned to ECOLE POLYTECHNIQUE FEDERALE DE LAUSANNE (EPFL) (Lausanne, Switzerland) and ONWARD MEDICAL N.V. (Eindhoven, Netherlands).

"System for planning and/or providing neuromodulation" was invented by Karen Minassian (Vienna), Fabien Wagner (Lausanne, Switzerland), Marco Capogrosso (Lausanne, Switzerland), Gregoire Courtine (Lausanne, Switzerland), Robin Brouns (Eindhoven, Netherlands), Jurriaan Bakker (Eindhoven, Netherlands), Andre Kleibeuker (Eindhoven, Netherlands), Bert Bakker (Eindhoven, Netherlands) and Vincent Delattre (Eindhoven, Netherlands).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention...