Patents Assigned to Boston Scienctific Neuromodulation Corporation
  • Methods and systems of treating pancreatitis pain caused by sphincter of Oddi dysfunction
    Patent number: 8914112
    Abstract: Methods and systems of treating a patient with pancreatitis pain include providing a stimulator, configuring one or more stimulation parameters to control sphincter of Oddi function, programming the stimulator with the one or more stimulation parameters, generating a stimulus configured to control sphincter of Oddi function with the stimulator in accordance with the one or more stimulation parameters, and applying the stimulus with the stimulator to one or more stimulation sites in accordance with the one or more stimulation parameters.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 22, 2009
    Date of Patent: December 16, 2014
    Assignee: Boston Scienctific Neuromodulation Corporation
    Inventors: Todd K. Whitehurst, Rafael Carbunaru, Kristen N. Jaax, Andrew DiGiore, Brett Schleicher, Greg Baldwin, Roger Hastings