US Patent Issued to Relievant Medsystems on April 21 for "Methods of denervating vertebral body using external energy source" (Virginia, California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,605,199, issued on April 21, was assigned to Relievant Medsystems Inc. (Minneapolis).

"Methods of denervating vertebral body using external energy source" was invented by Richard C. Pellegrino (Leesburg, Va.) and Rex Peters (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods are disclosed for treating back pain associated with a vertebral body of a patient. The system may include an external energy source configured to be positioned at a location external to the body of the patient, a linear configured to drive translation of the external source in one or more axes, a computer coupled to the external source and linear d...