US Patent Issued to Advanced Neuromodulation Systems on Sept. 16 for "Implantable medical device (IMD) with code path metrics" (Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,417,690, issued on Sept. 16, was assigned to Advanced Neuromodulation Systems Inc. (Plano, Texas).

"Implantable medical device (IMD) with code path metrics" was invented by Daran DeShazo (Lewisville, Texas) and Edward Lundberg (Frisco, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system and method of quantifying, maintaining and managing the functional status and/or therapy settings of an IMD based on code path metrics is disclosed. The codebase of device firmware modules may be instrumented to obtain tracing data and timing metrics data corresponding to different code paths that may be taken when a device subsystem or associated functionalit...