ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,589,021, issued on March 31.

"Apparatus and method of treating an approaching physiological event and increasing an intensity of the event" was invented by Jeffrey Bennett (Maple Grove, Minn.), Michael Hoey (Maple Grove, Minn.), Shawn McCutcheon (White Bear Lake, Minn.), Rachel Goldstein (Houston) and Dicken S.C. Ko (Weston, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A flexible neuromodulation device and method capable of varying a neuromodulation therapy in order to prevent, delay, or control a sexual emission, and/or increasing an intensity of a sexual climax."

The patent was filed on Nov. 14, 2023, under Application No. 18/508,459.

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