US Patent Issued to Mayo Foundation for Medical Education and Research on Sept. 16 for "Epidural stimulation and spinal structure locating techniques" (Minnesota Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,415,071, issued on Sept. 16, was assigned to Mayo Foundation for Medical Education and Research (Rochester, Minn.).

"Epidural stimulation and spinal structure locating techniques" was invented by Peter J. Grahn (Rochester, Minn.), Igor A. Lavrov (Rochester, Minn.), Kristin D. Zhao (Rochester, Minn.), Kendall H. Lee (Rochester, Minn.), Megan L. Gill (Rochester, Minn.) and Riazul Islam (Rochester, Minn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Epidural electrical stimulation (EES) systems and techniques for accessing and locating targeted spinal cord segments are disclosed. In some examples, a method includes providing a first set of electrodes of ...