US Patent Issued to THE FREESTATE OF BAVARIA REPRESENTED BY THE JULIUS-MAXIMILIANS-UNIVERSITAT WURZBRG on June 10 for "System to optimize anodic stimulation modes" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,324,917, issued on June 10, was assigned to THE FREESTATE OF BAVARIA REPRESENTED BY THE JULIUS-MAXIMILIANS-UNIVERSITAT WURZBRG (Wurzburg, Germany).

"System to optimize anodic stimulation modes" was invented by Jens Volkmann (Wurzburg, Germany) and Frank Steigerwald (Wurzburg, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods of providing neuromodulation therapy to a patient are disclosed herein. In particular, methods of applying deep brain stimulation (DB S) for the treatment of Parkinson's disease (PD) and related disorders are disclosed. Aspects of the methods involve using stimulation waveforms having a first polarity (e.g., cathodic st...