ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,714,853, issued on Aug. 25, was assigned to STIMVIA s.r.o. (Ostrava-Pustkovec, Czech Republic).

"Method and device for activation of brain regions" was invented by Lukas Doskocil (Chocen, Czech Republic), Jan Krhut (Ostrava-Zabreh, Czech Republic), Lukas Peter (Ostrava-Poruba, Czech Republic) and Zdenek Krcil (Pardubice, Czech Republic).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure provides a method and a device for an activation of brain regions. The method comprises attaching a first active electrode to a first leg of a person in the back of the knee area in an expected location of a peroneal nerve of the first leg and attaching...