US 11,904,171 B2
Translation between cathodic and anodic neuromodulation parameter settings
Richard Mustakos, Simi Valley, CA (US); Stephen Carcieri, Los Angeles, CA (US); Chirag Shah, Valencia, CA (US); and Peter J. Yoo, Burbank, CA (US)
Assigned to Boston Scientific Neuromodulation Corporation, Valencia, CA (US)
Filed by Boston Scientific Neuromodulation Corporation, Valencia, CA (US)
Filed on Aug. 30, 2021, as Appl. No. 17/460,532.
Application 17/460,532 is a continuation of application No. 16/396,256, filed on Apr. 26, 2019, granted, now 11,123,563.
Claims priority of provisional application 62/663,541, filed on Apr. 27, 2018.
Prior Publication US 2021/0387006 A1, Dec. 16, 2021
Int. Cl. A61N 1/36 (2006.01); A61N 1/05 (2006.01); G16H 20/30 (2018.01)
CPC A61N 1/36139 (2013.01) [A61N 1/36182 (2013.01); A61N 1/36189 (2013.01); A61N 1/0534 (2013.01); A61N 1/0551 (2013.01); A61N 1/36171 (2013.01); G16H 20/30 (2018.01)] 20 Claims
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1. A method of delivering a neuromodulation therapy using a neuromodulator to modulate a neural target region without modulating an avoidance region, the method comprising:
modulating the neural target region without modulating the avoidance region using a first neuromodulation field of a first polarity, the first neuromodulation field being generated by the neuromodulator and a first set of neuromodulation parameters, wherein the first set of neuromodulation parameters includes first fractionalization information, target region information and avoidance region information;
receiving a translation trigger;
automatically translating, in response to receiving the translation trigger and using both the target region information and the avoidance region information, the first set of neuromodulation parameters into a second set of neuromodulation parameters, wherein the second set of neuromodulation parameters includes second fractionalization information; and
modulating the neural target region without modulating the avoidance region using a second neuromodulation field of a second polarity, the second neuromodulation field being generated by the neuromodulator and the second set of neuromodulation parameters,
wherein the first fractionalization information and the second fractionalization information provide different fractionalizations defining different distributions of neuromodulation energy across a plurality of electrodes.