ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,447,343, issued on Oct. 21, was assigned to GALVANI BIOELECTRONICS Ltd. (Stevenage, Great Britain).

"Neurostimulation device for blocking blood flow between electrodes" was invented by Christopher Shen-Yuan Lai (Wilmington, Del.), Kenneth Douglas Rys (Wilmington, Del.), Matteo Donega (Brentford, Great Britain) and Isha Gupta (Brentford, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A neurostimulation device 1 for non-destructively stimulating neural activity in a nerve 3 in proximity to a blood vessel 5. The neurostimulation device 1 comprises a catheter 7 for insertion into the blood vessel 5; a proximal electrode 11 offset from a distal...