US Patent Issued to The Regents of the University of California on Sept. 1 for "Multi-site transcutaneous electrical stimulation of the spinal cord for facilitation of locomotion" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 1 -- United States Patent no. 12,722,002, issued on Sept. 1, was assigned to The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, Calif.).

"Multi-site transcutaneous electrical stimulation of the spinal cord for facilitation of locomotion" was invented by Yury P. Gerasimenko (Los Angeles), Victor Reggie Edgerton (Los Angeles), Roland R. Roy (Playa Vista, Calif.) and Daniel C. Lu (Los Angeles).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In various embodiments, systems and methods for stimulation of the spinal cord to improve and restore upper extremity motor function in a subject having paralysis due to a spinal cord injury are provided. In some embodiments, the systems and methods i...