US Patent Issued to Medtronic on Feb. 17 for "Environment-responsive neurostimulation pain therapy optimization" (American, Israeli Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,551,704, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to Medtronic Inc. (Minneapolis).

"Environment-responsive neurostimulation pain therapy optimization" was invented by Hank T. Bink (Golden Valley, Minn.), Erik J. Peterson (Fridley, Minn.), Jiashu Li (Mounds View, Minn.), Vinod Sharma (Maple Grove, Minn.), Juan G. Hincapie (Maple Grove, Minn.), Eric J. Panken (Edina, Minn.), Leonid M. Litvak (Beit Shemesh, Israel), David A. Dinsmoor (North Oaks, Minn.), Todd D. Zenisek (Georgetown, Texas), Andrew L. Schmeling (Holmen, Wis.) and Andrew J. Cleland (St. Paul, Minn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Processing circuitry of a system configured to determine...