US Patent Issued to Relievant Medsystems on June 30 for "Prediction of candidates for spinal neuromodulation" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,670,596, issued on June 30, was assigned to Relievant Medsystems Inc. (Redwood City, Calif.).

"Prediction of candidates for spinal neuromodulation" was invented by Brian W. Donovan (San Jose, Calif.), Ray M. Baker (San Clemente, Calif.) and Samit Patel (Palo Alto, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Described herein are various implementations of systems and methods for determining likelihood of a patient favorably responding to a neuromodulation procedure based on a quantitative or objective score or determination based on a plurality of indicators of pain (e.g., chronic low back pain stemming from one or more vertebral bodies or vert...