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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 03, 2024
Filed:
Apr. 25, 2022
Applicant:
Spr Therapeutics, Inc., Cleveland, OH (US);
Inventor:
Joseph W. Boggs, II, Carrboro, NC (US);
Assignee:
SPR THERAPEUTICS, INC., Cleveland, OH (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
A61N 1/36 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
A61N 1/36071 (2013.01); A61N 1/36017 (2013.01);
Abstract
It has been discovered that pain felt in a given region of the body can be treated, not by motor point stimulation of muscle in the local region where pain is felt, but by stimulating muscle spaced from a 'nerve of passage' in a region that is superior (i.e., cranial or upstream toward the spinal column) to the region where pain is felt. Spinal nerves such as the intercostal nerves or nerves passing through a nerve plexus, which comprise trunks that divide by divisions and/or cords into branches, comprise “nerves of passage.”