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2016
›
Duke University
›
Warren M. Grill
WG
Warren M. Grill
— 4 Patents in 2016
DU
Duke University
:
2
patents
#34
of
211
Top 20%
CU
Case Western Reserve University
:
1
patents
#18
of
127
Top 15%
ST
Spr Therapeutics
:
1
patents
#4
of
4
Top 100%
Chapel Hill, NC
:
#27
of
320
inventors
Top 9%
North Carolina
:
#403
of
5,540
inventors
Top 8%
Overall
(2016):
#32,709
of
481,213
Top 7%
4
Patents 2016
Issued Patents
2016
Showing
1–4
of
4
patents
Patent #
Title
Co-Inventors
Date
9446245
Systems and methods for selectively stimulating components in, on, or near the pudendal nerve or its branches to achieve selectively physiological responses
Kenneth J. Gustafson
,
Graham H. Creasey
2016-09-20
9259579
Non-regular electrical stimulation patterns for treating neurological disorders using a cost function
Alan D. Dorval, II
2016-02-16
9248289
Systems and methods for the treatment of pain through neural fiber stimulation
Maria E. Bennett
,
Joseph W. Boggs, II
,
John Chae
2016-02-02
9242095
Neural stimulation device with non-regular electrical stimulation patterns designed with a cost function for treating neurological disorders
David Brocker
2016-01-26
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