ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,582,344, issued on March 24, was assigned to Medtronic Xomed Inc. (Jacksonville, Fla.).

"Wireless stimulation probe device for wireless nerve integrity monitoring systems" was invented by Richard L. Brown (Mesa, Ariz.), John G. Pollock (Peoria, Ariz.), Kevin L. McFarlin (St. Johns, Fla.) and Randal C. Schulhauser (Phoenix).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A stimulation probe device including a first electrode, a stimulation module, a control module and a physical layer module. The stimulation module is configured to (i) wirelessly receive a payload signal from a console interface module or a nerve integrity monitoring device, and (ii) supp...