US Patent Issued to Medtronic on June 2 for "Peripheral nerve and spinal cord differential target multiplexed stimulation" (Minnesota Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,642,972, issued on June 2, was assigned to Medtronic Inc. (Minneapolis).

"Peripheral nerve and spinal cord differential target multiplexed stimulation" was invented by Brooke G. Kelley (Brooklyn Center, Minn.), Juan G. Hincapie (Maple Grove, Minn.) and Andrew J. Cleland (St. Paul, Minn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Devices, systems, or methods include generating, by stimulation generation circuitry, a first train of electrical stimulation pulses at a first frequency to a first target tissue; and generating, by the stimulation generation circuitry, a second train of electrical stimulation pulses at a second frequency to a second target t...