US Patent Issued to THE CLEVELAND CLINIC FOUNDATION on June 23 for "Method for accessing the glossopharyngeal nerve" (Ohio Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,661,513, issued on June 23, was assigned to THE CLEVELAND CLINIC FOUNDATION (Cleveland).

"Method for accessing the glossopharyngeal nerve" was invented by Francis A. Papay (Westlake, Ohio) and Abeer Kalandar (Cleveland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of treating a subject includes an incision step that includes making an incision adjacent to an earlobe of the subject; a dissecting step that includes dissecting anatomical structure of the subject to provide access to a glossopharyngeal nerve of the subject; and a coupling step that includes operatively coupling a neurostimulator to the glossopharyngeal nerve. The dissecting step i...