US Patent Issued to Boston Scientific Neuromodulation on Feb. 24 for "Closed loop stimulation adjustments based on local and surround receptive field stimulation" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,558,548, issued on Feb. 24, was assigned to Boston Scientific Neuromodulation Corp. (Valencia, Calif.).

"Closed loop stimulation adjustments based on local and surround receptive field stimulation" was invented by Tianhe Zhang (Studio City, Calif.) and Jianwen Gu (Valencia, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods and systems for proving spinal cord stimulation (SCS) for treating pain in a patient are described. Embodiments of the described methods and systems can provide sub-perception SCS that has a fast wash-in time by using stimulation parameters that activate surround inhibition in the patient. Measuring retrograde potentials e...