ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,605,548, issued on April 21, was assigned to Boston Scientific Neuromodulation Corp. (Valencia, Calif.).

"Closed loop control in spinal cord stimulation" was invented by Tianhe Zhang (Studio City, Calif.), Rosana Esteller (Santa Clarita, Calif.), Andrew Haddock (Los Angeles) and Michael Moffitt (Solon, Ohio).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods and systems for using sensed neural responses for informing aspects of stimulation therapy are disclosed. For example, features of evoked neural responses, such as evoked compound action potentials (ECAPs) can be used for closed-loop feedback control of stimulation parameters. Aspects of the dis...