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Patent Inventor Names
Ziv Belsky0
Shlomo Ben-Haim0
Melina Flesler0
Nissim Darvish0
Yaakov Ben Arie0
Yuval Mika0
Date of Patent
January 31, 2006
0Patent Application Number
104465670
Date Filed
May 28, 2003
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Patent abstract
Apparatus is provided for treating a condition such as obesity. The apparatus includes a set of one or more electrodes, which are adapted to be applied to one or more respective sites in a vicinity of a body of a stomach of a patient. A control unit is adapted to drive the electrode set to apply to the body of the stomach a signal, configured such that application thereof increases a level of contraction of muscle tissue of the body of the stomach, and decreases a cross-sectional area of a portion of the body of the stomach for a substantially continuous period greater than about 3 seconds.
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