ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,685,864, issued on July 21, was assigned to Case Western Reserve University (Cleveland).

"Systems for treatment of a neurological disorder using electrical nerve conduction block" was invented by Niloy Bhadra (Cleveland), Narendra Bhadra (Cleveland), Kevin L. Kilgore (Cleveland), Scott Lempka (Cleveland), Jesse Wainright (Cleveland), Tina Vrabec (Cleveland) and Manfred Franke (Cleveland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "One aspect of the present disclosure is a system including a waveform generator, a controller, and an electrical contact. The waveform generator is for generating an electrical nerve conduction block (ENCB). The controller i...