ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,285,608, issued on April 29, was assigned to Boston Scientific Neuromodulation Corp. (Valencia, Calif.).
"Anatomical targeting of neuromodulation" was invented by Tianhe Zhang (Studio City, Calif.), Bradley Lawrence Hershey (Carrollton, Texas) and Michael A. Moffitt (Solon, Ohio).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A neuromodulation targeting system includes a GUI that facilitates selection of one or more neuromodulation target regions. The GUI provides an interactive display representing anatomy of a patient with user-selectable portions corresponding to a plurality of predefined anatomical regions associated with distinct localized clinical e...