US Patent Issued to P TECH on Aug. 12 for "System and method for affecting porosity of tissue barriers, including blood brain barrier" (Illinois, Florida Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,383,735, issued on Aug. 12, was assigned to P TECH LLC (Manalapan, Fla.).

"System and method for affecting porosity of tissue barriers, including blood brain barrier" was invented by Peter M. Bonutti (Manalapan, Fla.), Justin E. Beyers (Effingham, Ill.) and Tonya M. Bierman (Dieterich, Ill.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An electrical stimulation device for modulating a blood-brain barrier (BBB) of a subject includes at least one electrode configured to delivery electrical stimulation to the subject to stimulate a sphenopalatine ganglion (SPG) of the subject, and a control unit in communication with the at least one electrode. The contro...