ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,702,837, issued on Aug. 11, was assigned to Medtronic Inc. (Minneapolis).

"Determining estimated neural threshold with ECAP signals" was invented by Leonid M. Litvak (Bet Shemesh, Israel), David A. Dinsmoor (North Oaks, Minn.), Juan G. Hincapie (Maple Grove, Minn.), Jeffery M. Kramer (St. Louis Park, Minn.), Jerel K. Mueller (St. Paul, Minn.), Joshua J. Nedrud (Roseville, Minn.) and Malgorzata M. Straka (Blaine, Minn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems, devices, and techniques are described for analyzing evoked compound action potential (ECAP) signals to determine an estimated neural threshold of a patient. In one example, a method i...