ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,636,487, issued on May 26, was assigned to Orthofix US LLC (Lewisville, Texas).

"Systems and methods for musculoskeletal tissue treatment" was invented by James T. Ryaby (Lewisville, Texas), Erik Waldorff (Lewisville, Texas), Ronald Midura (Shaker Heights, Ohio) and Maciej Zborowski (Bay Village, Ohio).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system and method for pulsed electromagnetic fields (PEMF) tissue engineering enhances musculoskeletal tissue stimulation. A tissue engineering device may include both low and high pulse frequency signal generation components that may alternatively drive one or more coils to generate PEMFs. These PEMFs may be...