ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,357,822, issued on July 15, was assigned to Medtronic Inc. (Minneapolis).

"Incontinence therapy" was invented by Xuan K. Wei (Minnetonka, Minn.), Ryan D. Willemsen (St. Paul, Minn.), Dwight E. Nelson (Shoreview, Minn.), Sudha B. Iyer (St. Paul, Minn.), Kira Stolen (St. Paul, Minn.) and Xin Su (Plymouth, Minn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In some examples, a technique for delivering electrical stimulation therapy to a patient includes determining, by processing circuitry, one or more cycle settings associated with delivery of the electrical stimulation therapy, determining, by the processing circuitry, a cycle time period associated wit...