ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,427,315, issued on Sept. 30, was assigned to Boston Scientific Neuromodulation Corp. (Valencia, Calif.).

"Method and apparatus for subtraction-based programming of neurostimulation fields" was invented by Michael A. Moffitt (Solon, Ohio) and Rafael Carbunaru (Valley Village, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An example of a neurostimulation system may include a programming control circuit and a stimulation control circuit. The programming control circuit may be configured to program a stimulation device for delivering the neurostimulation according to a stimulation program specifying a present stimulation field set including stimula...