ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,447,338, issued on Oct. 21, was assigned to OSAKA UNIVERSITY (Osaka, Japan).

"Electrical stimulation device and electrical stimulation method" was invented by Kazuhiro Matsui (Osaka, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The electrical stimulation device includes: positive and negative electrodes to be attached to epidermis of agonist-antagonist muscles acting on a target joint; a display unit; an EMG rehabilitation unit that detects an electromyogram of the agonist-antagonist muscles via the electrodes and outputs variation information corresponding to the detected electromyogram to the display unit; a FES rehabilitation unit that instru...