ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,257,438, issued on March 25, was assigned to Boston Scientific Neuromodulation Corp. (Valencia, Calif.).

"Neuromodulation programming tools for neuromodulator replacement" was invented by Leon Mauricio Juarez Paz (Berlin).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system may be used with a first neuromodulator of a first neuromodulator type and a second neuromodulator of a second neuromodulator type where the first neuromodulator is programmed with a first set of modulation parameter settings. The system may comprise an input configured for receiving the first set of modulation parameter settings for the first neuromodulator type, a processor conf...