US Patent Issued to EBT Medical on May 26 for "Treatment of incontinence by targeted nerve stimulation" (Canadian, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,636,492, issued on May 26, was assigned to EBT Medical Inc. (Toronto).

"Treatment of incontinence by targeted nerve stimulation" was invented by Paul B. Yoo (Toronto) and Michael Sasha John (Larchmont, N.Y.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for treatment of incontinence by targeted nerve stimulation where a signal generator is provided to generate a stimulation signal to modulate a patient's voiding disorder having the symptoms of abnormal urgency, incontinence or retention. A stimulator targets a portion of the patient's nervous tissue where the nervous tissue may be the patient's saphenous nerve, the patient's lateral plantar nerv...