ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,708,317, issued on Aug. 18, was assigned to RAMOT AT TEL-AVIV UNIVERSITY LTD. (Tel-Aviv, Israel) and ICHILOV TECH LTD. (Tel Aviv, Israel).

"Electrophysiological device and method for diagnosis of acute unilateral otitis media (AOM)" was invented by Ari Derowe (Tel Aviv, Israel), Tal Yehuda Barkai (Tel Aviv, Israel), Linor Klein (Tel Aviv, Israel), Mickey Scheinowitz (Tel Aviv, Israel) and Amir Dagan (Tel Aviv, Israel).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for diagnosis of Acute Otitis Media (AOM) with a monopolar probe in a territory innervated by a chorda tympani nerve (CTN) by applying a stimulus by the monopolar, measuring...