US Patent Issued to Medtronic on Feb. 3 for "Short pulse width systems and methods for deep brain stimulation" (Minnesota Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,539,424, issued on Feb. 3, was assigned to Medtronic Inc. (Minneapolis).

"Short pulse width systems and methods for deep brain stimulation" was invented by Timothy R. Abraham (Lino Lakes, Minn.), Nathan A. Torgerson (Andover, Minn.) and Scott R. Stanslaski (Shoreview, Minn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A stimulation engine configured to identify a fault condition in an implantable lead, including a regulator configured to deliver an electrical pulse between at least two electrodes of the implantable stimulation lead, and a sensing module configured to detect at least an initial voltage and a subsequent voltage between the at least two e...