ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,296,170, issued on May 13, was assigned to Presidio Medical Inc. (South San Francisco, Calif.) and Faculdade De Ciencias Medicas Da Universidade Nova De Lisboa (Lisbon, Portugal).

"Systems and methods for neuromodulation of a carotid sinus nerve" was invented by Silvia Margarida Vilares Santos Conde (Lisbon, Portugal), Daniel John Chew (Stevenage, Great Britain), Hans Jakob Kristoffer Famm (Stevenage, Great Britain), Maria Pedro Sucena Guarino (Lisbon, Portugal), Brad Holinski (San Jose, Calif.) and Sonal Patel (Stevenage, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The invention refers to a device for inhibiting the neural activity of ...