US Patent Issued to Medtronic on June 23 for "Electrode characterization for programming guidance" (Minnesota Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,661,514, issued on June 23, was assigned to Medtronic Inc. (Minneapolis).

"Electrode characterization for programming guidance" was invented by Michelle A. Case (Blaine, Minn.) and Jadin C. Jackson (Roseville, Minn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system includes processing circuitry configured to determine, for each electrode combination of a plurality of electrode combinations, a metric based on a sensed electrical signal from the electrode combination. The processing circuitry is further configured to determine, for each electrode of a plurality of electrodes, a subset of electrode combinations of the plurality of electrode combinati...