Patent ID: 11951300
Assignee: BOSTON SCIENTIFIC NEUROMODULATION CORPORATION
Field: Medical technology (Instruments)
Classification: CPC A  G | IPC A

Claim 16:
17. A non-transitory computer-readable storage medium including instructions, which when executed by a system, cause the system to perform a method for delivering electrical stimulation to a patient using a stimulator connected to a neurostimulation lead including one or more lead bodies and distal electrodes, the one or more lead bodies each including proximal contacts electrically connected to the respective distal electrodes, the method comprising:
creating field potential profiles for each lead body of the one or more lead bodies, including:
passing an electrical current through each contact of the proximal contacts of the each lead body;
measuring field potentials each at a contact of the proximal contacts, the field potentials resulting from the passing of the electrical current through the each contact; and
creating the field potential profile for the each contact using the measured field potentials;

comparing the created set of field potential profiles of the each lead body to each of stored one or more sets of reference field potential profiles, the stored one or more sets each predetermined for a lead body of the one or more lead bodies; and
determining information related to programming of the stimulator using an outcome of the comparison.