US Patent Issued to Medtronic on June 2 for "Feedback control of electrical stimulation therapy based on electric field imaging" (American, Israeli Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,642,971, issued on June 2, was assigned to Medtronic Inc. (Minneapolis).

"Feedback control of electrical stimulation therapy based on electric field imaging" was invented by Jerel K. Mueller (St. Paul, Minn.), Leonid M. Litvak (Bet Shemesh, Israel), Vinod Sharma (Maple Grove, Minn.), Katelynn M. Johnson (New Brighton, Minn.) and Jiashu Li (Mounds View, Minn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Devices, systems, and techniques are described that use electric field imaging (often referred to as the sensed stimulation artifact representative of a delivered stimulus) as an informative feedback signal to provide closed loop control of electrical st...