US Patent Issued to Case Western Reserve University on Jan. 27 for "Partial nerve conduction block using a separated interface nerve electrode (SINE)" (Ohio Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,533,509, issued on Jan. 27, was assigned to Case Western Reserve University (Cleveland).

"Partial nerve conduction block using a separated interface nerve electrode (SINE)" was invented by Tina L. Vrabec (Cleveland), Kevin L. Kilgore (Cleveland), Niloy Bhadra (Cleveland), Laura Shaw (Cleveland), David Roberts (Cleveland) and Narendra Bhadra (Cleveland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods that deliver a continuous partial nerve conduction block are described. A waveform generator can configure one or more direct current (DC) waveforms to provide a continuous partial nerve conduction block. One or more electrodes can deliver ...