US Patent Issued to THE HONG KONG POLYTECHNIC UNIVERSITY on Feb. 4 for "Apparatus and method for ultrasound spinal cord stimulation" (Chinese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,214,221, issued on Feb. 4, was assigned to THE HONG KONG POLYTECHNIC UNIVERSITY (Hong Kong).

"Apparatus and method for ultrasound spinal cord stimulation" was invented by Md. Monzurul Alam (Hong Kong) and Yongping Zheng (Hong Kong).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for ultrasound stimulation of spinal cord, the method comprising at least two stimulation cycles, each comprising the steps of: a) obtaining a first real-time spinal cord using a first set of ultrasound transducers; b) selecting a pre-determined stimulation area of the spinal cord from the first real-time spinal cord; c) calculating the position and orientation of the sele...