US 11,925,801 B2
External stimulation therapy for dorsal genital nerve stimulation
Xuan K Wei, Minnetonka, MN (US); Eric H. Bonde, Minnetonka, MN (US); John R. LaLonde, Lake Elmo, MN (US); and David A. Dinsmoor, St. Paul, MN (US)
Assigned to Medtronic, Inc., Minneapolis, MN (US)
Filed by Medtronic, Inc., Minneapolis, MN (US)
Filed on May 3, 2019, as Appl. No. 16/402,660.
Application 16/402,660 is a division of application No. 14/731,664, filed on Jun. 5, 2015, granted, now 10,322,282.
Claims priority of provisional application 62/008,910, filed on Jun. 6, 2014.
Prior Publication US 2019/0255326 A1, Aug. 22, 2019
Int. Cl. A61N 1/36 (2006.01); A61N 1/04 (2006.01); A61F 13/42 (2006.01); A61F 13/84 (2006.01)
CPC A61N 1/36007 (2013.01) [A61N 1/0456 (2013.01); A61N 1/36031 (2017.08); A61F 13/42 (2013.01); A61F 2013/424 (2013.01); A61F 13/84 (2013.01); A61F 2013/8479 (2013.01); A61N 1/36034 (2017.08)] 11 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A method comprising:
sensing, by a device external to a patient, wetness caused by urine leakage, based on sensing an impedance;
generating stimulation configured to stimulate a first dorsal genital nerve and a second dorsal genital nerve of a patient in response to the sensed wetness; and
delivering, via at least two external stimulation electrodes coupled to the device, the stimulation to the first dorsal genital nerve and the second dorsal genital nerve,
wherein delivering the stimulation is via the at least two external stimulation electrodes included on a ring-like device configured to be temporarily attached to a penis of a patient.