US Patent Issued to THE TRUSTEES OF INDIANA UNIVERSITY on Sept. 23 for "Peripheral nerve activation and blocking using cuff assembly and sinusoidal low frequency alternating current" (Indiana, Illinois Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,420,087, issued on Sept. 23, was assigned to THE TRUSTEES OF INDIANA UNIVERSITY (Bloomington, Ind.).

"Peripheral nerve activation and blocking using cuff assembly and sinusoidal low frequency alternating current" was invented by Kenichi Yoshida (Carmel, Ind.), Michael Ryne Horn (Fishers, Ind.), Awadh Al Hawwash (Indianapolis), Nathaniel Lazorchak (Indianapolis), Christian Phillip Vetter (Lombard, Ill.) and Onna Marie Doering (Indianapolis).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Nerve stimulation via a Low Frequency Alternating Current (LFAC) waveform can result in blocking of action potential conduction, while an increase in LFAC frequency and/o...