ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,420,098, issued on Sept. 23, was assigned to Nevro Corp. (Redwood City, Calif.).

"Autonomic nervous system control via high frequency spinal cord modulation, and associated systems and methods" was invented by Bradford Evan Gliner (Sammamish, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Autonomic nervous system control via high frequency spinal cord modulation, and associated systems and methods. A method for treating a patient in accordance with a particular embodiment includes selecting a neural modulation site to include a neural population of the patient's spinal cord, and selecting parameters of a neural modulation signal to at least reduc...