ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,667,726, issued on June 30, was assigned to Boston Scientific Neuromodulation Corp. (Valencia, Calif.).

"Adaptive electrical neurostimulation treatment to reduce pain perception" was invented by Qinghuang Lin (Yorktown Heights, N.Y.), Jeffrey Rogers (Briarcliff Manor, N.Y.), Giovanni Russo (Smithfield Market, Ireland), Andrea Simonetto (Leixlip, Ireland) and Tigran Tchrakian (Castleknock, Ireland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and techniques are disclosed to establish programming of an implantable electrical neurostimulation device for treating chronic pain of a human subject, through the use of a dynamic model adapted to determi...