US Patent Issued to The Feinstein Institutes for Medical Research on Nov. 11 for "Systems and methods for vagus nerve stimulation" (New York Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,465,768, issued on Nov. 11, was assigned to The Feinstein Institutes for Medical Research (Manhasset, N.Y.).

"Systems and methods for vagus nerve stimulation" was invented by Stavros Zanos (Roslyn Heights, N.Y.) and Yao-Chuan Chang (Levittown, N.Y.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system and method for determining parameters of stimulation electrical signals for vagus nerve stimulation is discussed. Initial parameters of the signals are selected to provide reliable response to stimulation in physiological measurements of a subject. One or more physiological and neurological indices are determined based on a vagus nerve response model. Fo...