ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,453,860, issued on Oct. 28, was assigned to The Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University (Stanford, Calif.).

"Effective invasive multichannel desynchronizing stimulation" was invented by Peter Tass (Stanford, Calif.) and Justus Alfred Kromer (Stanford, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An apparatus for treatment of a patient using multichannel desynchronizing stimulation includes: (1) n stimulation contacts, with n being 2 or greater; (2) a signal generator connected to the n stimulation contacts; and (3) a controller connected to the signal generator to direct operation of the signal generator, wherein the controll...