ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,642,962, issued on June 2.
"Electro-stimulation patch" was invented by George Ashford Reed (Lake Oswego, Ore.), Patrick Flynn Boileau (Cornelius, Ore.) and Wessam Mohamed (Zagazig, Egypt).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A disposable, self-contained electro-stimulation device configured with paired cutaneous electrodes for placement over specific acupuncture and neurostimulation points (such P6) on a patient's wrist, delivering controlled electrical pulses to reduce or prevent nausea and vomiting following surgery or anesthesia. Its advanced circuitry trades boost-converter efficiency for total system energy conservation, optimized for the l...