ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,310,738, issued on May 27, was assigned to Boston Scientific Neuromodulation Corp. (Valencia, Calif.).

"Stimulation progamming aid using a sensory projection" was invented by Dennis Zottola (Ventura, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This document discusses, among other things, systems and methods to map an electrical waveform to a user-perceivable input. Some system examples include at least one electrode configured to sense neural activity in a patient, a mapping controller configured to receive an electrical waveform from the at least one electrode and map the sensed neural activity to a user-perceivable output based on the sensed...