US Patent Issued to Boston Scientific Neuromodulation on Nov. 3 for "Systems and methods for monitoring neural activity" (Australian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,779,225, issued on Nov. 3, was assigned to Boston Scientific Neuromodulation Corp. (Valencia, Calif.).

"Systems and methods for monitoring neural activity" was invented by Nicholas Sinclair (East Melbourne, Australia), Hugh McDermott (East Melbourne, Australia), Arthur Wesley Thevathasan (East Melbourne, Australia) and James Fallon (East Melbourne, Australia).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of neurostimulation includes applying a probe signal to an electrode implanted in or near a target neural structure of the brain. The method further includes detecting a first response from the target neural structure evoked by the probe signal ...