ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,303,690, issued on May 20, was assigned to THERANICA BIO-ELECTRONICS LTD. (Netanya, Israel).

"Apparatus and methods for improving sensory nerve sensitivity" was invented by Alon Ironi (Haifa, Israel).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Sensitivity of sensory nerves of a body portion is increased by activating at least one computer processor to iteratively simultaneously apply sets of electrical stimulation pulses to two locations upon a surface of the body portion; receive an input indicative of whether the subject sensed the sets of electrical stimulation pulses as having been applied to a single location or more than one location; in respons...