ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,702,838, issued on Aug. 11, was assigned to BIOTRONIK SE & Co. KG (Berlin).
"Multi-electrode spinal cord stimulation therapy" was invented by Sean Slee (Tigard, Ore.), Andrew B. Kibler (Lake Oswego, Ore.) and Marcelo Baru (Taulatin, Ore.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A device used for neurostimulation includes a plurality of electrodes. In order to improve therapeutic efficacy when using a group of N electrodes equal to or larger than 3, the device is configured to deliver a number of N+1 electrical phases during one cycle via the electrodes such that during N electrical phases of the cycle each electrode of the group delivers alternati...