US Patent Issued to Boston Scientific Neuromodulation on March 25 for "Neural sensing in an implantable stimulator device during passive charge recovery" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,257,436, issued on March 25, was assigned to Boston Scientific Neuromodulation Corp. (Valencia, Calif.).

"Neural sensing in an implantable stimulator device during passive charge recovery" was invented by Kiran K. Gururaj (Valencia, Calif.), David M. Wagenbach (Simi Valley, Calif.), Philip L. Weiss (Sherman Oaks, Calif.) and Emanuel Feldman (Simi Valley, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques for sensing neural responses such as Evoked Compound Action Potentials (ECAPs) in an implantable stimulator device are disclosed. A first therapeutic pulse phase is followed by a charge recovery phase that includes at least one high-imped...