US Patent Issued to Alphatec Spine on Aug. 18 for "Systems, methods, and devices for detecting the threshold of nerve-muscle response using variable frequency of stimulation" (Maryland, California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,708,318, issued on Aug. 18, was assigned to Alphatec Spine Inc. (Carlsbad, Calif.).

"Systems, methods, and devices for detecting the threshold of nerve-muscle response using variable frequency of stimulation" was invented by Richard A. O'Brien (Cockeysville, Md.), Gregg Johns (Oceanside, Calif.), Robert Snow (Phoenix, Md.) and James E. Gharib (San Diego).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for determining a lowest stimulation threshold current level in a group of channels of a neuromonitoring device. The method includes stimulating tissue at a current level from a predetermined range of current levels as a sequence of pulses delivered...