Patent ID: 11964157
Assignee: MEDTRONIC, INC.
Field: Medical technology (Instruments)
Classification: CPC A | IPC A

Claim 19:
20. The computer-readable storage medium of claim 19 further comprising instructions that, when executed, cause the processing circuitry to:
assign, based on a reference direction relative to a patient's anatomy and/or a sensed signal source, a primary direction to each respective set of electrodes of a first plurality of sets of electrodes;
determine, based on a target location, a location of each respective set of electrodes of the first plurality of sets of electrodes;
exclude, based on the determined location and the assigned primary direction, at least one set of electrodes of the first plurality of sets of electrodes from the second plurality of sets of electrodes, wherein the second plurality of sets of electrodes does not include the excluded at least one electrode;
assign, based on the reference direction, a secondary direction to each respective set of electrodes of the first plurality of sets of electrodes;
exclude the at least one set of electrodes from the first plurality of sets of electrodes by excluding, based on the determined location and the assigned secondary direction, the at least one set of electrodes of the first plurality of sets of electrodes from the second plurality of sets of electrodes;
assign, based on the ranking, a locus set of electrodes for at least one of the primary direction or the secondary direction;
select, based on the locus set of electrodes, the subset of electrodes from the second plurality of electrodes;
control a medical device to deliver the electrical stimulation therapy via a stimulation set of electrodes including only the locus set of electrodes;
determine a reduction in symptoms or an increase of the side-effect in response to the delivered electrical stimulation; and
repeatedly add, based on the reduction in symptoms or the non-induction in increase of the side-effect, at least one other set of electrodes from the subset of electrodes to the stimulation set of electrodes, deliver electrical stimulation via the stimulation set of electrodes, and determine a reduction in symptoms or an increase of the side-effect is induced in response to the delivered electrical stimulation.