US Patent Issued to SPR Therapeutics on Aug. 5 for "Systems and methods for the treatment of pain through neural fiber stimulation" (Ohio, North Carolina Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,377,270, issued on Aug. 5, was assigned to SPR Therapeutics Inc. (Cleveland).

"Systems and methods for the treatment of pain through neural fiber stimulation" was invented by Maria E. Bennett (Beachwood, Ohio), Joseph W. Boggs II (Chapel Hill, N.C.), Warren M. Grill (Chapel Hill, N.C.) and John Chae (Strongsville, Ohio).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embodiments of the present invention provide systems and methods for the treatment of pain through activation of select neural fibers. The neural fibers may comprise one or more afferent neural fibers and/or one or more efferent neural fibers. If afferent fibers are stimulated, alone or in com...