ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,311,181, issued on May 27, was assigned to Advanced Neuromodulation Systems Inc. (Plano, Texas).

"Systems and methods for burst waveforms with anodic-leading pulses" was invented by Simeng Zhang (Frisco, Texas), Hyun-Joo Park (Frisco, Texas), Filippo Agnesi (Plano, Texas), Yagna Pathak (Skokie, Ill.) and Erika Ross (Dallas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure provides systems and methods for generating burst waveforms. An implantable neurostimulation system includes an implantable stimulation lead including a plurality of contacts, and an implantable pulse generator communicatively coupled to the stimulation lead. The pu...