US Patent Issued to Neuralytix on April 22 for "System and method for assessing nerve health during a spinal decompression procedure using a calculated nerve function index" (Michigan Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,279,881, issued on April 22, was assigned to Neuralytix LLC (Brighton, Mich.).

"System and method for assessing nerve health during a spinal decompression procedure using a calculated nerve function index" was invented by David S. Nay (Novi, Mich.) and Christopher Wybo (Brighton, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for assessing nerve health during a spinal decompression procedure includes: transmitting electrical stimuli to a nerve; detecting muscle responses evoked by the stimuli; determining multiple nerve function parameters based on the responses; calculating a nerve function index based on a weighted combination of the par...