ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,364,865, issued on July 22, was assigned to Advanced Neuromodulation Systems Inc. (Plano, Texas).

"Neuromodulation therapy with a multiple stimulation engine system" was invented by Daran DeShazo (Lewisville, Texas), Steven Boor (Plano, Texas) and Gavin L Rade (Dallas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An implantable medical device (IMD) includes multiple stimulation engines (SEs) for independently stimulating respective electrode sets of a lead system. A voltage multiplier (VM) is configured to generate an adjustable target voltage at an output node. Each stimulation engine includes first switching circuitry to switchably connect an anodic ...