REDWOOD CITY, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Nocimed, LLC is pleased to announce that U.S. patent number 8,344,728 for “Systems and Methods Using Nuclear Magnetic Resonance (NMR) Spectroscopy to Evaluate Pain and Degenerative Properties of Tissue” was issued by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) on January 1, 2013. Another patent in a related “family” to this issued U.S. patent was also recently granted in Australia. Other related patent applications are also currently pending in other major international territories outside of the United States. These issued patents and pending patent applications are owned by The Regents of the University of California (UC) via the original inventors at UC San Francisco, and are exclusively licensed to Nocimed, LLC. O’Banion & Ritchey, LLP, including via Cullens Patent & Trade Mark Attorneys in Australia, represented UC in prosecuting these patents to these successful grants. Nocimed is also represented by Knobbe Martens Olson & Bear, LLP in its intellectual property affairs.
