US Patent Issued to Medtronic Ireland Manufacturing UnLtd. on Feb. 18 for "Systems and methods for assessing sympathetic nervous system tone for renal neuromodulation therapy" (Minnesota Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,226,220, issued on Feb. 18, was assigned to Medtronic Ireland Manufacturing UnLtd. Co. (Dublin).

"Systems and methods for assessing sympathetic nervous system tone for renal neuromodulation therapy" was invented by Douglas Hettrick (Andover, Minn.) and Shantanu Sarkar (Roseville, Minn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for assessing sympathetic nervous system (SNS) tone for renal neuromodulation therapy are disclosed herein. A system configured in accordance with embodiments of the present technology can include, for example, a detector attached to or implanted in a patient and a receiver communicatively coupled to the d...