ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,427,317, issued on Sept. 30, was assigned to Flint Hills Scientific LLC (Lawrence, Kan.).
"Contingent cardio-protection for epilepsy patients" was invented by Ivan Osorio (Leawood, Kan.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed are methods and systems for treating epilepsy by stimulating a main trunk of a vagus nerve, or a left vagus nerve, when the patient has had no seizure or a seizure that is not characterized by cardiac changes such as an increase in heart rate, and stimulating a cardiac branch of a vagus nerve, or a right vagus nerve, when the patient has had a seizure characterized by cardiac changes such as a heart rate increase....