US Patent Issued on Dec. 2 for "Methods for treating patients with paralytic colon syndrome" (American, Brazilian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,485,296, issued on Dec. 2.

"Methods for treating patients with paralytic colon syndrome" was invented by Mark David Landes (Burlington, Iowa) and Ana Sarcia (Florianopolis, Brazil).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods of treating patients with paralytic colon syndrome, wherein the method embodies devices that vibrate while supporting the patient. The method includes vibrating the patient in a supported position so as to urge an oscillating vertical displacement of approximately three to ten millimeters, wherein the vertical displacement is in a direction normal to a supporting surface of the supported position, and wherein the oscillatio...