ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,544,575, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, Calif.) and NATIONAL CHENG KUNG UNIVERSITY (Tainan, Taiwan).

"Bioelectric neuromodulation for hematopoiesis regulation during chemotherapy" was invented by Wentai Liu (Los Angeles), Meng-Ru Shen (Tainan, Taiwan), Li-Hsien Chen (Tainan, Taiwan) and Ya-Ting Hsu (Kaohsiung, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A device and method are taught for stimulating sympathetic nerves toward mitigating negative impacts to hematopoiesis. An autonomic nerve actuator and stimulator system with a graphic user interface (GUI), controller circuit which conver...