METHOD OF CONTROLLING EPILEPSY BY BRAIN STIMULATION

Patent №

US 5,800,474

Granted

1998-09-01

Filed 1996

Owner

MEDTRONIC, INC.

Lab

AI components

1

hardware

Assignment

Recorded

Dataset

AIPD

2023_r1 edition

Application

08742841

A method of preventing seizures as experienced by persons with Epilepsy. High frequency electrical stimulation pulses are supplied to the subthalamic nucleus thereby blocking neural activity in the subthalamic nucleus and reducing excitatory input to the substantia nigra which leads to a reduction in the occurrence of seizures.

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Ownership

MEDTRONIC, INC.

assignment · 84530290

Assignors

BENABID, ALIM LOUIS, MARESCAUX, CHRISTIAN

On an employer assignment, the assignors are typically the inventors.

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