US Patent Issued to Medtronic on Feb. 3 for "Lead orientation determination for electrical stimulation therapy" (Colorado, Utah Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,541,874, issued on Feb. 3, was assigned to Medtronic Inc. (Minneapolis).

"Lead orientation determination for electrical stimulation therapy" was invented by Tyler S. Stevenson (Westminster, Colo.), Stephen Cook (Lafayette, Colo.), Jason Bridenstine (American Fork, Utah), Ryan Datteri (Denver) and Shai Ronen (Westminster, Colo.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system includes memory configured to store image content representative of a lead implanted within a patient, and processing circuitry. The processing circuitry is configured to determine a reference point in the image content, determine a plane in the image content that corresponds ...