US Patent Issued to Medtronic on May 12 for "Electrode selection based on impedance for sensing or stimulation" (Minnesota Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,623,076, issued on May 12, was assigned to Medtronic Inc. (Minneapolis).

"Electrode selection based on impedance for sensing or stimulation" was invented by David A. Dinsmoor (North Oaks, Minn.) and Juan G. Hincapie (Maple Grove, Minn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An example medical device includes processing circuitry configured to determine an electrode impedance value for each of one or more electrodes of a lead coupled to the medical device, identify one or more of the electrodes having electrode impedance values that are greater than electrode impedance values of other electrodes of the lead, from the identified one or more electro...