US Patent Issued to Medtronic on June 2 for "Peripheral nerve stimulation control" (Minnesota, California, Massachusetts Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,642,970, issued on June 2, was assigned to Medtronic Inc. (Minneapolis).

"Peripheral nerve stimulation control" was invented by Gary W. King (Fridley, Minn.), Steven M. Goetz (North Oaks, Minn.), Andrew H. Houchins (Hugo, Minn.), Jeffrey T. Keacher (Stanford, Calif.), Jordan J. Greenberg (Blaine, Minn.), Kenneth T. Heruth (Edina, Minn.), Mark S. Lent (Brooklyn Park, Minn.) and Paul W. Wacnik (Brookline, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Peripheral nerve field stimulation (PNFS) may be controlled based on detected physiological effects of the PNFS, which may be an efferent response to the PNFS. In some examples, a closed-loop therapy sy...