ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,702,836, issued on Aug. 11, was assigned to Medtronic Inc. (Minneapolis).

"Evoked signal based deep brain stimulation (DBS) programming" was invented by Kristin N. Hageman (Dayton, Minn.), Scott R. Stanslaski (Shoreview, Minn.), Erik J. Peterson (Fridley, Minn.), Rene A. Molina (Maple Grove, Minn.), Paul H. Stypulkowski (North Oaks, Minn.), David A. Dinsmoor (North Oaks, Minn.), Leonid M. Litvak (Bet Shemesh, Israel) and Michelle A. Case (Blaine, Minn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system includes memory and processing circuitry coupled to the memory and configured to determine a plurality of local field potential (LFP) measurements o...