US Patent Issued to Mainstay Medical on Aug. 11 for "Electrical stimulator for the treatment of back pain and methods of use" (Belgian, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,702,824, issued on Aug. 11, was assigned to Mainstay Medical Ltd. (Dublin).

"Electrical stimulator for the treatment of back pain and methods of use" was invented by Peter Andrew Crosby (Blaine, Minn.), Dan Sachs (Minneapolis), Prashant Brijmohansingh Rawat (Blaine, Minn.), Jason Alan Shiroff (Edina, Minn.) and Johannes Petrus Heemels (Keerbergen, Belgium).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Apparatus and methods for treating back pain are provided, in which an implantable stimulator is configured to communicate with an external control system, the implantable stimulator providing a neuromuscular electrical stimulation therapy designed to caus...