US Patent Issued to UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT AS REPRESENTED BY THE DEPARTMENT OF VETERANS AFFAIRS on Oct. 6 for "Devices, systems, and methods for auricular vagus nerve stimulation" (Pennsylvania Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,752,112, issued on Oct. 6, was assigned to UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT AS REPRESENTED BY THE DEPARTMENT OF VETERANS AFFAIRS (Washington).

"Devices, systems, and methods for auricular vagus nerve stimulation" was invented by Michael A Urbin (Pittsburgh).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of acutely activating the noradrenergic systems in a subject can comprise applying one or more electrical pulses to an ear canal (e.g., the left ear canal) of the subject, wherein the one or more electrical pulses are sufficient to acutely activate the noradrenergic system of the subject. Apparatuses and systems for applying one or more electrical pulses ...