US Patent Issued to THE FEINSTEIN INSTITUTES FOR MEDICAL RESEARCH on Dec. 9 for "Nerve stimulation for treatment of diseases and disorders" (New York, Connecticut Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,491,367, issued on Dec. 9, was assigned to THE FEINSTEIN INSTITUTES FOR MEDICAL RESEARCH (Manhasset, N.Y.).

"Nerve stimulation for treatment of diseases and disorders" was invented by Kevin J. Tracey (Old Greenwich, Conn.) and Sangeeta S. Chavan (Syosset, N.Y.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods are presented for treating a subject having a disease or disorder comprising stimulating a vagus nerve of the subject with a corrective stimulus pattern derived from a disease-specific, condition-specific, endogenous mediator-specific or pharmacologic agent-specific vagus neurogram in an amount and manner effective to treat the disease or disor...