US Patent Issued to Presidio Medical on April 8 for "Current bias as a control mechanism for electrode operation" (California, Nevada Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,268,865, issued on April 8, was assigned to Presidio Medical Inc. (San Mateo, Calif.).

"Current bias as a control mechanism for electrode operation" was invented by Douglas Michael Ackermann (Reno, Nev.), Michael A. Faltys (San Francisco), James Harris (San Francisco) and Kenneth S. Wu (San Francisco).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed herein are systems and methods for electrically modulating tissue. Systems can include a current generator; at least one implantable working electrode, the at least one implantable working electrode configured to be in electrical communication with the current generator; at least one indifferent elect...