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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 29, 2019
Filed:
Jun. 15, 2016
Applicant:
Pacesetter, Inc., Sylmar, CA (US);
Inventors:
Filippo Agnesi, Plano, TX (US);
Lalit Venkatesan, Prosper, TX (US);
Assignee:
PACESETTER, INC., Sylmar, CA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
A61N 1/00 (2006.01); A61N 1/36 (2006.01); A61N 1/05 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
A61N 1/36178 (2013.01); A61N 1/0534 (2013.01); A61N 1/36067 (2013.01); A61N 1/36125 (2013.01); A61N 1/36185 (2013.01);
Abstract
The present disclosure provides systems and methods for combining tonic deep brain stimulation (DBS) and random DBS. A system includes a stimulation lead including a plurality of contacts, and an implantable pulse generator (IPG) communicatively coupled to the stimulation lead and configured to cause tonic stimulation to be delivered using one contact of the plurality of contacts, and cause random stimulation to be delivered using a subset of the remaining contacts of the plurality of contacts.