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 the rights to intramuscular recording and stimulating electrodes, epimysial recording and stimulating electrodes, spiral cuff peripheral nerve electrodes, and a universal external control unit.

Additional details of the agreement were not disclosed. Technologies first developed for internal research at Case Western Reserve and the FES Center will be directly available through Ardiem to other researchers working in the neuromodulation field.