US Patent Issued to The Alfred E. Mann Foundation for Scientific Research on July 8 for "Electrode leads having nerve cuffs and associated systems and methods" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,350,489, issued on July 8, was assigned to The Alfred E. Mann Foundation for Scientific Research (Valencia, Calif.).

"Electrode leads having nerve cuffs and associated systems and methods" was invented by Christopher Reed Jenney (Valencia, Calif.), Oren Gotlib (Agoura Hills, Calif.), Joseph Calderon (Santa Clarita, Calif.), William Andrew Brandt (Castaic, Calif.) and Neil Talbot (La Crescenta, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An electrode that includes an elongate lead body and a nerve cuff. The nerve cuff may include a biologically compatible, elastic, electrically insulative cuff body configured to be circumferentially disposed aro...