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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 30, 2025
Filed:
Dec. 23, 2019
Applicant:
Ivan Osorio, Leawood, KS (US);
Inventor:
Ivan Osorio, Leawood, KS (US);
Assignee:
Flint Hills Scientific, L.L.C., Lawrence, KS (US);
Attorneys:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
A61N 1/36 (2006.01); A61N 1/372 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
A61N 1/36146 (2013.01); A61N 1/36053 (2013.01); A61N 1/36064 (2013.01); A61N 1/36139 (2013.01); A61N 1/37235 (2013.01); A61N 1/37247 (2013.01);
Abstract
Disclosed are methods and systems for treating epilepsy by stimulating a main trunk of a vagus nerve, or a left vagus nerve, when the patient has had no seizure or a seizure that is not characterized by cardiac changes such as an increase in heart rate, and stimulating a cardiac branch of a vagus nerve, or a right vagus nerve, when the patient has had a seizure characterized by cardiac changes such as a heart rate increase.