US Patent Issued to Medtronic on May 27 for "Patient state determination based on one or more spectral characteristics of a bioelectrical brain signal" (American, Dutch Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,310,744, issued on May 27, was assigned to Medtronic Inc. (Minneapolis).

"Patient state determination based on one or more spectral characteristics of a bioelectrical brain signal" was invented by Dwight E. Nelson (Shoreview, Minn.), Jianping Wu (Chapel Hill, N.C.), Rahul Gupta (Irvine, Calif.) and Yan Zhao (Enschede, Netherlands).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In some examples, a processor determines a patient state based on activity of a bioelectrical brain signal of a patient in one or more frequency sub-bands of a frequency band of interest. For example, a processor may determine a patient state based on the power level of a bioelectr...