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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 03, 2026
Filed:
Jun. 14, 2021
Boston Scientific Neuromodulation Corporation, Valencia, CA (US);
Que T. Doan, West Hills, CA (US);
Luca Antonello Annecchino, London, GB;
Boston Scientific Neuromodulation Corporation, Valencia, CA (US);
Abstract
Methods and systems for testing and treating spinal cord stimulation (SCS) patients are disclosed. Patients are eventually treated with sub-perception (paresthesia free) therapy. However, supra-perception stimulation is used during 'sweet spot searching' during which a stimulation location in an electrode array is determined. Preferably, the supra-perception stimulation comprises a bipole formed using actively-driven symmetric biphasic waveforms at active ones of the electrodes in the array. After determining the location, a perception threshold for the bipole at the location is determined and stored, and an amplitude of the stimulation is reduced below the perception threshold to provide a sub-perception stimulation bipole. The determined perception threshold may be transmitted to the patient's remote controller, where it is used to limit amplitude adjustments to the sub-perception bipole by the patient.