US Patent Issued to NEVRO on Nov. 11 for "Systems and methods for direct suppression of nerve cells" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,465,767, issued on Nov. 11, was assigned to NEVRO CORP. (Redwood City, Calif.).

"Systems and methods for direct suppression of nerve cells" was invented by Kerry Bradley (Glendale, Calif.) and Dongchul Lee (Agua Dulce, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present technology provides systems and methods for directly suppressing nerve cells by delivering electrical stimulation having relatively long pulse widths and at amplitudes below an activation threshold of the nerve cells. For example, some embodiments include delivering a therapy signal having individual pulses with pulse widths of between about 5 ms and 100 ms. Directly suppre...