ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,678,622, issued on July 14, was assigned to RAY & COMPANY INC. (Omihachiman, Japan) and NATIONAL UNIVERSITY CORPORATION SHIGA UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCE (Otsu, Japan).

"Electric potential therapy device" was invented by Saburo Mikata (Omihachiman, Japan), Takayoshi Abe (Omihachiman, Japan) and Hisakazu Ogita (Otsu, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An electric potential therapy device includes a negative voltage applying means, an electrostatic charge removing means, and a controller that controls the negative voltage applying means and the electrostatic charge removing means in a predetermined therapy time in which a therapy cycle...