US Patent Issued to Medtronic on June 30 for "Medication monitoring based on local field potential" (Texas Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,667,306, issued on June 30, was assigned to Medtronic Inc. (Minneapolis).

"Medication monitoring based on local field potential" was invented by Todd D. Zenisek (Georgetown, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for determining an efficacy of medication treatment for a patient includes determining, by one or more processors, based on a local field potential (LFP) activity of the patient, when the patient takes medication and/or a duration of when the medication is effective. The method further includes outputting, by the one or more processors, an indication of when the patient takes the medication and/or the duration of when the...