US Patent Issued to Surf Therapeutics on Feb. 17 for "Systems and methods for ultrasound neuromodulation of desired anatomical targets" (California, Texas, Tennessee Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,551,730, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to Surf Therapeutics Inc. (Austin, Texas).

"Systems and methods for ultrasound neuromodulation of desired anatomical targets" was invented by Nishant Doctor (Pflugerville, Texas), Alexander Sackeim (San Francisco), Muhammad Zubair (San Francisco), Omar T. Yunis (Memphis, Tenn.) and Christopher R. Bawiec (San Francisco).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Ultrasound energy therapy devices, systems, and methods for the treatment of a condition via neuromodulation of a nerve in a tissue, such as a spleen or liver. A therapy device having a transducer array configured to transmit ultrasound energy to the sp...