US Patent Issued to University of Washington on March 17 for "Treating stroke using electrical stimulation" (Washington Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,576,274, issued on March 17, was assigned to University of Washington (Seattle).

"Treating stroke using electrical stimulation" was invented by Azadeh Yazdan-Shahmorad (Seattle), Zixuan Zhou (Seattle), Karam Khateeb (Seattle), Mona Rahimi (Seattle) and Aryaman Gala (Seattle).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques for treating acute ischemic stroke, and other neurological pathologies, are described herein. An example method includes identifying a portion of a brain including overactive neurons and outputting an electrical signal to at least one stimulation electrode disposed away from the portion of the brain by a distance in a range o...