US Patent Issued to Nevro on April 22 for "Methods and systems for disease treatment using electrical stimulation" (California, Washington Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,280,256, issued on April 22, was assigned to Nevro Corp. (Redwood City, Calif.).

"Methods and systems for disease treatment using electrical stimulation" was invented by Gary Heit (Woodside, Calif.) and Bradford Evan Gliner (Sammamish, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems for disease treatment using electrical stimulation are disclosed. A representative method for treating a patient includes changing an activity, expression, or both activity and expression of a fast sodium channel, a glial cell, or both a fast sodium channel and a glial cell of the patient by applying to a target neural population of the patient an electrical ther...