US Patent Issued to Relievant Medsystems on Dec. 16 for "Methods of detecting and treating back pain" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,496,094, issued on Dec. 16, was assigned to Relievant Medsystems Inc. (Redwood City, Calif.).

"Methods of detecting and treating back pain" was invented by Brian W. Donovan (San Jose, Calif.), Samit Patel (Palo Alto, Calif.) and Ray M. Baker (San Clemente, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Described herein are various implementations of systems and methods for accessing and modulating tissue (for example, systems and methods for accessing and ablating nerves or other tissue within or surrounding a vertebral body to treat chronic lower back pain). Assessment of vertebral endplate degeneration or defects (e.g., pre-Modic changes) to fa...