US Patent Issued to Neurovalens on Jan. 28 for "Systems, devices and methods for sleep therapy using vestibular nerve stimulation" (British Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 29 -- United States Patent no. 12,208,214, issued on Jan. 28, was assigned to Neurovalens Ltd. (Portglenone, Great Britain).

"Systems, devices and methods for sleep therapy using vestibular nerve stimulation" was invented by Jason McKeown (Portglenone, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods, systems and devices are provided to stimulate the vestibular system in such a way as to excite the neurological components of the circadian rhythm system and induce sleep. A device with one or more electrodes placed over a subject's scalp provides vestibular nerve stimulation (VeNS) to the vestibular nerve, which is then carried into the vestibular nucleus in the brains...