US Patent Issued to Medtronic on June 2 for "Transesophageal vagus nerve stimulation" (Texas Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,642,960, issued on June 2, was assigned to Medtronic Inc. (Minneapolis).

"Transesophageal vagus nerve stimulation" was invented by David J. Miller (Austin, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Example devices and techniques are disclosed for delivering neurostimulation therapy transesophageally. An example device includes stimulation circuitry configured to generate a transesophageal stimulation signal. The example device includes memory configured to store stimulation parameters that at least partially define the transesophageal stimulation signal and processing circuitry communicatively coupled to the memory, and the stimulation circuit...