US Patent Issued to CASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY on Oct. 20 for "System for accelerated recovery from direct current (DC) nerve block using repolarization" (Ohio Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,766,314, issued on Oct. 20, was assigned to CASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY (Cleveland).

"System for accelerated recovery from direct current (DC) nerve block using repolarization" was invented by Tina L. Vrabec (Cleveland), Kevin L. Kilgore (Cleveland), Jesse S. Wainright (Cleveland) and Niloy Bhadra (Cleveland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Accelerated recovery from direct current (DC) nerve block can be achieved using repolarization. A direct current (DC) waveform can be applied to a nerve for a time sufficient to achieve nerve block. The DC waveform can be switched to another DC waveform of reversed polarity, which can be applied for...