ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,263,343, issued on April 1, was assigned to LivaNova USA Inc. (Houston).

"Neurostimulator with titration assist" was invented by Scott Stubbs (Maple Grove, Minn.), Imad Libbus (St. Paul, Minn.), Scott Mazar (Woodbury, Minn.), Bruce H. KenKnight (Maple Grove, Minn.) and Badri Amurthur (Los Gatos, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of neurostimulation titration includes titrating a neurostimulation signal from a first set of parameters toward a target set of parameters according to a titration aggressiveness profile having a titration hold point. The method further includes receiving a hold indicator indicating that the titrati...