US Patent Issued to THE UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT AS REPRESENTED BY THE DEPARTMENT OF VETERANS AFFAIRS, The Regents of the University of California on March 3 for "Tonic eyelid closure and blink pacing device and method" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,564,716, issued on March 3, was assigned to THE UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT AS REPRESENTED BY THE DEPARTMENT OF VETERANS AFFAIRS (Washington) and The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, Calif.).

"Tonic eyelid closure and blink pacing device and method" was invented by Julie Schallhorn (San Francisco) and Nailyn Rasool (San Francisco).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A device for stimulating left and right eyelid closure of a patient. A first pair of electrodes is configured to be attached in spaced apart relation to one another proximate to a left facial nerve of the patient for activating closure of the left eyelid. A second pai...