ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,576,276, issued on March 17, was assigned to Boston Scientific Neuromodulation Corp. (Valencia, Calif.).

"Amplitude modulating waveform pattern generation for stimulation in an implantable pulse generator" was invented by Philip Leonard Weiss (Sherman Oaks, Calif.), Pujitha Weerakoon (Valencia, Calif.) and David Michael Wagenbach (Simi Valley, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Improved stimulation circuitry for controlling the stimulation delivered by an implantable stimulator is disclosed. The stimulation circuitry includes memory circuitry that stores pulse programs that define pulse shapes, steering programs that define electrode...