US Patent Issued to Medtronic on Sept. 15 for "Phase alignment of ECAPs" (Minnesota Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,734,361, issued on Sept. 15, was assigned to Medtronic Inc. (Minneapolis).

"Phase alignment of ECAPs" was invented by David A. Dinsmoor (North Oaks, Minn.), Hank Bink (Golden Valley, Minn.) and Kristin N. Hageman (Dayton, Minn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems, devices, methods, and techniques are described for phase misalignment correction for evoked compound action potential (ECAP) measurement from alternating polarity stimulation. An example system includes processing circuitry that receives a first ECAP signal elicited by a first polarity configuration of stimulus electrodes and receives a second ECAP signal elicited by a seco...