US Patent Issued to The Regents of the University of California, Presidio Medical on Sept. 9 for "Treatment of cardiac dysfunction" (British, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,409,322, issued on Sept. 9, was assigned to The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, Calif.) and Presidio Medical Inc. (San Francisco).

"Treatment of cardiac dysfunction" was invented by Jeffrey Laurence Ardell (Oakland, Calif.), Kalyanam Shivkumar (Oakland, Calif.) and Arun Sridhar (Stevenage, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Modulation, preferably inhibition, of neurosignaling of a cardiac-related sympathetic nerve in the extracardiac intrathoracic neural circuit is effective in stabilizing cardiac electrical and/or mechanical function, thereby providing ways of treating or preventing cardiac dysfunction such ...