US Patent Issued to Relievant Medsystems on June 2 for "Methods of treating a vertebral body" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,642,555, issued on June 2, was assigned to Relievant Medsystems Inc. (Minneapolis).

"Methods of treating a vertebral body" was invented by Brian W. Donovan (San Jose, Calif.), Samit Patel (Palo Alto, Calif.), Ray M. Baker (San Clemente, Calif.) and Avram Allan Edidin (San Clemente, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Described herein are various implementations of systems and methods for accessing and modulating tissue (for example, systems and methods for accessing and ablating nerves or other tissue within or surrounding a vertebral body to treat chronic lower back pain). Assessment of vertebral endplate degeneration or defects (e.g.,...