ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,272,980, issued on April 8, was assigned to Nia Therapeutics Inc. (Boston).
"Neuromodulation apparatus, method and system" was invented by Rikky Muller (San Francisco), Benjamin Johnson (Boise, Idaho) and Igor Izyumin (Oakland, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Representative methods, apparatus and systems are disclosed for providing concurrent electrical stimulation and electrical recording in a human or non-human subject, such as for neuromodulation, with the apparatus coupleable to an electrode array. A representative apparatus is typically an integrated circuit including: stimulation circuits, recording circuits, and blocking cir...