US Patent Issued to Epsilon Medical, UNIVERSITY OF TSUKUBA on June 30 for "Apparatus used to detect or stimulate activity of nerve tissue" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,667,293, issued on June 30, was assigned to Epsilon Medical Inc. (Tokyo) and UNIVERSITY OF TSUKUBA (Ibaraki, Japan).

"Apparatus used to detect or stimulate activity of nerve tissue" was invented by Yuji Matsumaru (Tsukuba, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This apparatus (1) comprises at least one intravascular device (10), (20) that is disposed in a blood vessel of an organism and that is equipped with at least one electrode (11), (12), (21), (22) for detecting or stimulating the activity of nerve tissue positioned outside the blood vessel nearby, the electrodes (11), (12), (21), (22) being provided on a wire member."

The patent was...