US Patent Issued to MEDICAL QUANT USA on May 13 for "Photobiomodulation therapy to improve functional mobility of stroke survivors" (American, Brazilian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,296,187, issued on May 13, was assigned to MEDICAL QUANT USA INC. (Solon, Ohio).

"Photobiomodulation therapy to improve functional mobility of stroke survivors" was invented by Douglas Johnson (Brownstown, Mich.), Max Kanarsky (Solon, Ohio) and Ernesto Cesar Pinto Leal Jr. (Sao Paulo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Photobiomodulation therapy (PBMT) can be used to improve functional mobility of stroke survivors. A light source device can be contacted to a subject's skin proximal to an area of hemiplegia within a subject due to the stroke. A light signal (with wavelengths from the red to infrared part of the spectrum) can be applied in at l...