ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,588,870, issued on March 31, was assigned to Medtronic Inc. (Minneapolis).
"Electrode orientation detection" was invented by Janardan Vaidyanathan (Thane, India).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Devices, systems, and techniques are disclosed for determining an orientation of electrodes within a patient. For example, method may include receiving magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) data of tissue of a patient that received electrical stimulation via at least one electrode disposed in the patient, generating, based on the MRI data, stimulation temperature data representative of temperature changes in the tissue of the patient during the electric...