US Patent Issued to Medtronic on June 2 for "Spinal cord injury therapy based on evoked compound action potentials" (Minnesota Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,642,969, issued on June 2, was assigned to Medtronic Inc. (Minneapolis).

"Spinal cord injury therapy based on evoked compound action potentials" was invented by David A. Dinsmoor (North Oaks, Minn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Devices, systems, and techniques for controlling electrical stimulation therapy are described. In one example, a system is configured to deliver, via a first electrode combination, a first stimulation pulse to a portion of a spinal cord of a patient located caudally of a spinal cord injury location of the spinal cord of the patient; sense, via a second electrode combination, an evoked compound action potential (EC...