US Patent Issued to Wavegate on April 7 for "Apparatus and method for reducing the effect of lead migration during spinal cord stimulation" (Louisiana Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,594,425, issued on April 7, was assigned to Wavegate Corp. (Lake Charles, La.).

"Apparatus and method for reducing the effect of lead migration during spinal cord stimulation" was invented by Erich W. Wolf II (Lake Charles, La.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In the present invention, an IPG incorporates electrical resistivity monitoring with a reflectometry trigger. The IPG is configured to determine both optically and electrically if migration occurs between the electrodes. If the light intensity variation in the optical trigger is greater than an optical threshold value, then the system will pause stimulation and conduct a resistivity ...