US Patent Issued to NMES Group on Sept. 1 for "Stimulation pattern encoding and transfer protocol for TENS and NMES devices" (Swiss Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 1 -- United States Patent no. 12,722,005, issued on Sept. 1, was assigned to NMES Group AB (Svenljunga, Sweden).

"Stimulation pattern encoding and transfer protocol for TENS and NMES devices" was invented by Vincent Tellenbach (Sion Valais, Switzerland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for encoding electrical stimulation sequence or program and transferring them to an electrical stimulation device for the treatment of medical and non-medical conditions. NeuroMuscular Electrical Stimulation (NMES) and Transcutaneous Electrical Nerve Stimulation (TENS) consists of delivering short electrical impulses to the user. These impulses are characterized by their shape, pola...