US Patent Issued to UroVal on Sept. 23 for "Diagnosis of brain and spinal cord injury by bulbocavernosus reflex measurement" (Minnesota, Kansas, Virginia Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,419,563, issued on Sept. 23, was assigned to UroVal Inc. (Manhattan, Kan.).

"Diagnosis of brain and spinal cord injury by bulbocavernosus reflex measurement" was invented by Debra J. Folkerts (Manhattan, Kan.), Karen Louise Finstrom McPhee (Williamsburg, Va.), Gregory Ray Johnson (Nisswa, Minn.) and Timothy Martin Gack (Walker, Minn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system and method is disclosed for measuring muscle reflexes (e.g., a bulbocavernosus reflex) as a tool for identifying/diagnosing dysfunctions (e.g., spinal cord abnormalities, bladder voiding dysfunction, and sexual organ dysfunction) non-invasively by using mechanical sti...