ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,594,429, issued on April 7, was assigned to Medtronic Inc. (Minneapolis).

"Stimulation programming and control based on patient ambulatory velocity" was invented by Todd D. Zenisek (Georgetown, Texas) and Nathan A. Torgerson (Andover, Minn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method includes receiving, with one or more processors, a first ambulatory velocity information of a patient while electrical stimulation with a first set of stimulation parameters is being delivered to the patient; adjusting, based on the first ambulatory velocity information and by a predetermined amount, one or more of the first set of stimulation parameters to gene...