US Patent Issued to Medtronic on Feb. 24 for "Lead based measurements for tongue movement determination" (American, Israeli Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,558,549, issued on Feb. 24, was assigned to Medtronic Inc. (Minneapolis).

"Lead based measurements for tongue movement determination" was invented by James Britton Hissong (Jacksonville, Fla.), Robert T. Sandgren (Lindstrom, Minn.), Erik J. Peterson (Fridley, Minn.), Sean P. Skubitz (Forest Lake, Minn.), Adam J. Rivard (Blaine, Minn.), Thomas I. Miller (Blaine, Minn.), David J. Miller (Austin, Texas), Kristin N. Hageman (Dayton, Minn.), Avram Scheiner (Vadnais Heights, Minn.), Kanthaiah Koka (Valencia, Calif.) and Leonid M. Litvak (Bet Shemesh, Israel).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system includes memory, and processing circuitry coupl...