US 12,403,314 B2
Neurostimulation using time-interleaved cascade of bipolar electrode combinations
Jeffery M. Kramer, St. Louis Park, MN (US); Andrew J. Cleland, St. Paul, MN (US); and Leonid M. Litvak, Los Angeles, CA (US)
Assigned to Medtronic, Inc., Minneapolis, MN (US)
Filed by Medtronic, Inc., Minneapolis, MN (US)
Filed on Feb. 23, 2022, as Appl. No. 17/652,245.
Claims priority of provisional application 63/153,201, filed on Feb. 24, 2021.
Prior Publication US 2022/0266029 A1, Aug. 25, 2022
Int. Cl. A61N 1/36 (2006.01); A61N 1/05 (2006.01); A61N 1/372 (2006.01)
CPC A61N 1/36139 (2013.01) [A61N 1/05 (2013.01); A61N 1/36192 (2013.01); A61N 1/37235 (2013.01); A61N 1/36062 (2017.08); A61N 1/36064 (2013.01); A61N 1/36067 (2013.01); A61N 1/36071 (2013.01); A61N 1/36107 (2013.01)] 20 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A method of delivering electrical stimulation, the method comprising:
obtaining, by an implantable medical device (IMD) connected to one or more leads carrying a plurality of electrodes across the one or more leads, one or more stimulation parameters; and
delivering, by the IMD and based on the one or more stimulation parameters, electrical stimulation therapy to a spinal cord of a patient via the plurality of electrodes, wherein delivering the electrical stimulation therapy comprises scanning delivery of the electrical stimulation therapy through different pairs of electrodes, wherein the scanning delivery of the electrical stimulation therapy through the different pairs of electrodes comprises scanning through the pairs of electrodes at a scanning frequency of greater than or equal to 25 Hz, and wherein each of the different pairs of electrodes comprises two electrodes of the plurality of electrodes carried across the one or more leads or one electrode of the plurality of electrodes carried across the one or more leads and an electrode on a housing of the IMD.