ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,533,516, issued on Jan. 27, was assigned to Boston Scientific Neuromodulation Corp. (Valencia, Calif.).

"Neuromodulation system and method for transitioning between programming modes" was invented by Dennis Allen Vansickle (Lancaster, Calif.), Dongchul Lee (Agua Dulce, Calif.), Sridhar Kothandaraman (Valencia, Calif.), Que T. Doan (West Hills, Calif.), Changfang Zhu (Valencia, Calif.), Jordi Parramon (Valencia, Calif.), Justin Holley (Vejle, Denmark), Bradley L. Hershey (Carrollton, Texas), Christopher E. Gillespie (Stevenson Ranch, Calif.), Rafael Carbunaru (Valley Village, Calif.) and Nazim Wahab (Valencia, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark...