Patent ID: 9623244
Date: 2017-04-18
CPC Classifications: A61N

Claim:
1. An electrical neuromodulation system, comprising: an external control device configured for receiving input from a user; a neuromodulation device configured for communicating with the external control device, and configured for delivering electrical energy to at least one electrode in accordance with a modulation parameter value; and control/processing circuitry configured for automatically performing a process to optimize power consumption that includes (a) adjusting the modulation parameter value to create a currently adjusted modulation parameter value to decrease energy consumption of the neuromodulation device, (b) instructing the neuromodulation device to deliver the electrical energy to the at least one electrode in accordance with the currently adjusted modulation parameter value, (c) determining whether a manual parameter adjustment was made by the user in response to step (b), and (d) repeating steps (a)-(c) until it is determined that the manual parameter adjustment was made by the user in response to step (b), and then determining that a previously-adjusted parameter value is an optimized modulation parameter value that minimizes the energy consumption of the neuromodulation device when delivering the electrical energy to the at least one electrode.