US Patent Issued to Nevro on Dec. 9 for "Selective high frequency spinal cord modulation for inhibiting pain, including cephalic and/or total body pain with reduced side effects, and associated systems and methods" (Washington, Alaska Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,491,365, issued on Dec. 9, was assigned to Nevro Corp. (Redwood City, Calif.).

"Selective high frequency spinal cord modulation for inhibiting pain, including cephalic and/or total body pain with reduced side effects, and associated systems and methods" was invented by James R. Thacker (Homer, Alaska), Konstantinos Alataris (Belmont, Wash.) and Bradford Evan Gliner (Sammamish, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Selective high-frequency spinal cord modulation for inhibiting pain with reduced side effects and associated systems and methods are disclosed. In particular embodiments, high-frequency modulation in the range of from about 1.5 K...