ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,303,304, issued on May 20, was assigned to NuVasive Inc. (San Diego).
"Electrode disconnect detection" was invented by Siddhi Tavildar (San Diego), Sean O'Connor (San Diego) and Dmitry Novikov (San Diego).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed examples include those directed to detecting and remediating detachment of electrodes from a patient. In an example, a system calculates a Pearson correlation coefficient between: (1) power spectral density of the noise and (2) power spectral density of a recorded signal (e.g., from an electrode being operated in free-run EMG mode). If the recorded signal correlates with the noise, then the system...