US Patent Issued to Medtronic on Sept. 16 for "Method and apparatus for charge balancing during delivery of electrical stimulation" (Minnesota Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,415,078, issued on Sept. 16, was assigned to Medtronic Inc. (Minneapolis).

"Method and apparatus for charge balancing during delivery of electrical stimulation" was invented by Eric D. Corndorf (Minneapolis) and Robert T. Sawchuk (Roseville, Minn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A medical device is configured to deliver a series of electrical stimulation pulses including opposing polarity pulses. The medical device delivers a charge balancing pulse by modifying every nth pulse of the electrical stimulation pulses to reduce a net charge delivered over the series of electrical stimulation pulses. In some examples, the medical device may be...