US Patent Issued to Sage Products on May 20 for "Systems and methods for automated muscle stimulation" (California Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,303,681, issued on May 20, was assigned to Sage Products LLC (Cary, Ill.).

"Systems and methods for automated muscle stimulation" was invented by Brian J. Fahey (Redwood City, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of electrically stimulating a target muscle of a patient includes placing an array of stimulation electrodes in electrical contact with the target muscle, applying an electrical stimulation signal to the array of stimulation electrodes, obtaining a signal from a sensing element placed on the patient, wherein the signal characterizes at least one biological parameter associated with contraction of the target muscle, and...