Ardiem Acquires Intellectual Property

Contract manufacturer Ardiem Medical Inc. (Indiana, PA) has obtained a nonexclusive license to make and sell neuromodulation devices based on intellectual property developed at Case Western Reserve University's Department of Biomedical Engineering and the Functional Electrical Stimulation (FES) Center in Cleveland. The agreement grants Ardiem rights to intramuscular recording and stimulating electrodes, epimysial recording and stimulating electrodes, spiral cuff peripheral nerve electrodes, and a universal external control unit. No other details of the agreement were disclosed. The technologies were first developed for internal research at the university and the FES Center; they will now be directly available through Ardiem to other researchers working in the neuromodulation field.