US Patent Issued to Soovu Labs on May 13 for "Systems and methods for improved pain relief from stimulation of thermal fibers" (Washington Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,296,129, issued on May 13, was assigned to Soovu Labs Inc. (Seattle).

"Systems and methods for improved pain relief from stimulation of thermal fibers" was invented by Charles Chabal (Seattle), Peter J. Dunbar (Seattle), Allan Stephan (Seattle) and Jack Profit (Seattle).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present technology includes systems and methods for treating pain by pulsing heat into a volume of tissue containing thermoreceptors. The pulsed heat may be configured to induce stimulation of thermoreceptors. The pulsed heat may also be applied at a frequency configured to induce desensitization of at least a subset of the thermoreceptor...