US Patent Issued to INSIGHTEC on Sept. 8 for "Ultrasound-mediated neurostimulation" (Israeli Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,728,293, issued on Sept. 8, was assigned to INSIGHTEC LTD. (Tirat Carmel, Israel).

"Ultrasound-mediated neurostimulation" was invented by Kobi Vortman (Haifa, Israel) and Shuki Vitek (Haifa, Israel).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Various approaches to stimulating neural activity in one or more target regions associated with one or more brain diseases or disorders include transmitting the first sequence of ultrasound pulses to the target region(s); measuring a physiological parameter indicative of the neural activity at the target region(s) resulting from the ultrasound pulses; and based at least in part on the measurement, adjusting a par...