US Patent Issued to The Alfred E. Mann Foundation for Scientific Research on May 13 for "Electrode leads having nerve contact elements with coil contacts and associated systems and methods" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,296,172, issued on May 13, was assigned to The Alfred E. Mann Foundation for Scientific Research (Valencia, Calif.).

"Electrode leads having nerve contact elements with coil contacts and associated systems and methods" was invented by Christopher Reed Jenney (Valencia, Calif.) and Timothy Strickland (La Crescenta, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An electrode lead including an elongate lead body and a nerve cuff (or other nerve contact element) including an electrically insulative cuff body (or other contact body) affixed to the distal end of the lead body and at least one electrically conductive coil partially embedded in the cuff ...