US Patent Issued to Massachusetts Institute of Technology on March 11 for "Peripheral neural interface via nerve regeneration to distal tissues" (California, New Hampshire, Massachusetts Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,245,956, issued on March 11, was assigned to Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Cambridge, Mass.).

"Peripheral neural interface via nerve regeneration to distal tissues" was invented by Hugh M. Herr (Concord, N.H.), Ronald R. Riso (Carlisle, Mass.), Katherine W. Song (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Richard J. Casler Jr. (Los Gatos, Calif.) and Matthew J. Carty (Somerville, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "At least partial function of a human limb is restored by surgically removing at least a portion of an injured or diseased human limb from a surgical site of an individual and transplanting a selected muscle into the remaining biological b...