US Patent Issued to SPECIALISED PAIN MEDICINE on July 7 for "System and method for treating chronic pain" (Australian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,673,208, issued on July 7, was assigned to SPECIALISED PAIN MEDICINE PTY LTD (Hawthorn, Australia).

"System and method for treating chronic pain" was invented by Philip Cornish (Hawthorn, Australia) and Anne Cornish (Hawthorn, Australia).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embodiments of a method for treating a patient suffering from chronic pain are described. A source location of chronic pain in a patient is first identified. A regional anaesthetic is then used to temporarily block selected nerves to confirm the source location and identify a target nerve. An electrode array of a neuromodulation apparatus is then implanted in the patient over...