US Patent Issued to GENERAL ELECTRIC on March 25 for "Neuromodulation techniques for perturbation of physiological systems" (New York Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,257,457, issued on March 25, was assigned to GENERAL ELECTRIC COMPANY (Schenectady, N.Y.).

"Neuromodulation techniques for perturbation of physiological systems" was invented by Christopher Michael Puleo (Niskayuna, N.Y.), Victoria Eugenia Cotero (Troy, N.Y.), Jeffrey Michael Ashe (Gloversville, N.Y.) and John Frederick Graf (Ballston Lake, N.Y.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embodiments of the present disclosure relate to techniques for inducing physiological perturbations in a subject via neuromodulation, e.g., peripheral neuromodulation of a region of interest of an organ. The nature and degree of the perturbations may be related to ...