US Patent Issued to Boston Scientific Neuromodulation on Feb. 18 for "Current generation architecture for an implantable stimulator device" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,231,139, issued on Feb. 18, was assigned to Boston Scientific Neuromodulation Corp. (Valencia, Calif.).

"Current generation architecture for an implantable stimulator device" was invented by Pujitha Weerakoon (Valencia, Calif.) and Goran N. Marnfeldt (Valencia, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Digital-to-Analog (DAC) circuitry for an implantable pulse generator is disclosed which is used to program currents at the electrodes. Calibration circuitry allows the positive and negative currents produced at each electrode to be independently calibrated to achieve an ideal (linear) response across a range of amplitude values provided to the...