ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,311,184, issued on May 27, was assigned to Medtronic Inc. (Minneapolis).
"Method and user interface for managing duty-cycled electrical nerve stimulation" was invented by Nathan I. Johnson (Saint Paul, Minn.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An implantable neurostimulation system including an implantable neurostimulation device having one or more electrodes configured to deliver electrical energy to a patient according to a prescribed dosing pattern for the treatment of one or more physiological conditions and an external programmer configured to wirelessly communicate with the implantable neurostimulation device, the external programmer in...