Competitive Technologies Inc. says it got a U.S. patent on a critical piece of technology used in the Fairfield firm’s electronic pain-therapy device.
The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office issued patent No. 8,380,317 for its trademark “Scrambler Therapy” system that is part of Calmare pain suppression device.
CEO Carl O’Connell said Monday the patent is a validation of certain pain-control theories and a big step forward in Competitive Tech’s business model to market domestically its device as a last-ditch solution for chronic pain sufferers who are all but resistant to anti-pain medication and implants.
Scrambler Therapy, invented by Italian professor Giuseppe Marineo, works generally by using artificial neurons to transmit a signal via electrodes on a patient’s body to his central nervous system to trick the body’s pain receptors into interpreting them as “non-pain” signals.
