US Patent Issued to Regents of the University of Minnesota on July 1 for "Hierarchical optimization of neuromodulator settings" (Minnesota Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,343,540, issued on July 1, was assigned to Regents of the University of Minnesota (Minneapolis).

"Hierarchical optimization of neuromodulator settings" was invented by Theoden I. Netoff (Minneapolis), Andrew Lamperski (Minneapolis), David Darrow (Minneapolis), Tyler Lekang (Minneapolis) and Zixi Zhao (Minneapolis).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "User-specific neurostimulation settings are efficiently determined and optimized based on an optimized set of population-based neurostimulation settings. The population data are clustered and a set of test settings for a new user are selected as settings that efficiently discriminate between the clu...