ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,576,271, issued on March 17, was assigned to NEUROVALENS Ltd. (Portglenone, Great Britain).
"Systems, devices and methods for anxiety treatment using vestibular nerve stimulation" was invented by Jason McKeown (Portglenone, Great Britain).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods, systems and devices are provided to stimulate the vestibular system in such a way as to influence the neurological components of the autonomic nervous system and reduce an anxiety level in a subject. A device with one or more electrodes placed over a subject's scalp provides vestibular nerve stimulation (VeNS) to the vestibular nerve, which is then carried into th...