US Patent Issued to Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Charles Stark Draper Laboratory on July 21 for "Architectures and methods for electrochemical neuromodulation" (Massachusetts, Illinois Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,687,514, issued on July 21, was assigned to Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Cambridge, Mass.) and Charles Stark Draper Laboratory Inc. (Cambridge, Mass.).

"Architectures and methods for electrochemical neuromodulation" was invented by Jongyoon Han (Bedford, Mass.), Daniel Freeman (Reading, Mass.) and Matthew Flavin (Downers Grove, Ill.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A prosthetic device includes a closed loop system for maintaining a predetermined concentration of a target ion in a region in proximity to a cell, such as a nerve cell. The device includes a controller and an ion-selective electrode assembly operatively connected to t...