ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,370,359, issued on July 29, was assigned to Boston Scientific Neuromodulation Corp. (Valencia, Calif.).

"Pulse definition circuitry for creating stimulation waveforms in an implantable pulse generator" was invented by Philip Leonard Weiss (Sherman Oaks, Calif.), Goran N. Marnfeldt (Valencia, Calif.) and David Michael Wagenbach (Simi Valley, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Improved stimulation circuitry for controlling the stimulation delivered by an implantable stimulator is disclosed. The stimulation circuitry includes memory circuitry that stores pulse programs that define pulse shapes, steering programs that define electrode con...