ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,268,433, issued on April 8, was assigned to National University of Ireland, Galway (Galway, Ireland).

"Devices for therapeutic nasal neuromodulation and associated methods and systems" was invented by David Townley (Clare, Ireland), Brian Shields (Galway, Ireland), Ivan Keogh (Galway, Ireland), Michele Qi Zhan (Antioch, Calif.) and Conor Farrell (Mayo, Ireland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Devices for therapeutic nasal neuromodulation and associated systems and methods are disclosed herein. A system for therapeutic neuromodulation in a nasal region configured in accordance with embodiments of the present technology can include, for exam...