US Patent Issued to NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY, ANN AND ROBERT H. LURIE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF CHICAGO on Oct. 21 for "Digitally adjustable phrenic nerve stimulator system" (Illinois Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,447,345, issued on Oct. 21, was assigned to NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY (Evanston, Ill.) and ANN AND ROBERT H. LURIE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF CHICAGO (Chicago).

"Digitally adjustable phrenic nerve stimulator system" was invented by Alexey Revinski (Evanston, Ill.), Kirby D. Gong (Evanston, Ill.), Emma S. Cripe (Evanston, Ill.), Michelle Wang (Evanston, Ill.), Matthew R. Glucksberg (Evanston, Ill.), Debra E. Weese-Mayer (Chicago) and Anthony Chin (Chicago).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system for electrical ventilation stimulation of a patient including an implantable nerve stimulator including a stimulation circuit and a pulse generator that...