ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,661,515, issued on June 23, was assigned to Boston Scientific Neuromodulation Corp. (Valencia, Calif.).

"Feature selection and sensing optimization for adaptive neuromodulation therapy" was invented by Andrew James Haddock (Los Angeles), Tianhe Zhang (Studio City, Calif.) and Satya Venkata Sandeep Avvaru (Minneapolis).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for closed-loop control of electrostimulation based on signal features derived from evoked neural activities are disclosed. A system comprises an electrostimulator to deliver a stimulation therapy, a sensing circuit to sense an evoked response induced by the stimulation ther...