US Patent Issued to The Alfred E. Mann Foundation for Scientific Research on March 17 for "Tissue stimulation apparatus and methods of making the same" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,576,267, issued on March 17, was assigned to The Alfred E. Mann Foundation for Scientific Research (Valencia, Calif.).

"Tissue stimulation apparatus and methods of making the same" was invented by Christopher Reed Jenney (Valencia, Calif.), Neil Talbot (La Crescenta, Calif.), Joseph L. Calderon (Santa Clarita, Calif.), Sahar Elyahoodayan (Los Angeles) and William Andrew Brandt (Castaic, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of forming a nerve cuff by combining a plurality of electrically conductive members with respective rear surfaces and grit blasted front surfaces with a nerve cuff body, which includes a respective plurality...