US Patent Issued to Boston Scientific Neuromodulation on Sept. 30 for "Programming of pairing and MRI modes in an implantable medical device system" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,427,325, issued on Sept. 30, was assigned to Boston Scientific Neuromodulation Corp. (Valencia, Calif.).

"Programming of pairing and MRI modes in an implantable medical device system" was invented by Hannah Gallovic (Sherman Oaks, Calif.), Sridhar Kothandaraman (Valencia, Calif.), John Rivera (Oxnard, Calif.), Chirag Shah (Valencia, Calif.) and Joshua Uyeda (Los Angeles).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods are disclosed for use with Implantable Medical Devices (IMD) such as Implantable Stimulator Devices. The system includes a permanent magnet which can be used to reset the IMD (such as during an emergency) and to place th...