US Patent Issued to Boston Scientific Neuromodulation on April 29 for "Pulsed passive charge recovery circuitry for an implantable medical device" (California, Idaho Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,285,603, issued on April 29, was assigned to Boston Scientific Neuromodulation Corp. (Valencia, Calif.).

"Pulsed passive charge recovery circuitry for an implantable medical device" was invented by Emanuel Feldman (Simi Valley, Calif.), Jordi Parramon (Valencia, Calif.), Goran N. Marnfeldt (Valencia, Calif.) and Adam T. Featherstone (Meridian, Idaho).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The problem of a potentially high amount of supra-threshold charge passing through the patient's tissue at the end of an Implantable Pulse Generator (IPG) program is addressed by circuitry that periodically dissipates only small amount of the charge stored on cap...