US Patent Issued to VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY on Sept. 30 for "Neuromodulation of the glossopharyngeal nerve to improve sleep disordered breathing" (Tennessee Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,427,314, issued on Sept. 30, was assigned to VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY (Nashville, Tenn.).

"Neuromodulation of the glossopharyngeal nerve to improve sleep disordered breathing" was invented by David T. Kent (Nashville, Tenn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods and systems are provided to improve SDB in a patient suffering therefrom by delivering an electrical neuromodulation signal to at least a target site comprising an efferent fiber of the glossopharyngeal nerve that innervates pharyngeal constrictor muscles or the stylopharyngeus muscle. Methods include further delivering electrical neuromodulation signals to other sites including on...