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Dwight E. Nelson — 54 Patents

Medtronic: 52 patents #102 of 6,367Top 2%
Shoreview, MN: #26 of 657 inventorsTop 4%
Minnesota: #776 of 52,454 inventorsTop 2%
Overall (All Time): #46,969 of 4,157,543Top 2%
54 Patents All Time
Dwight E. Nelson has been granted 54 US patents while listed as an inventor at Medtronic. The first was granted in 2012 and the most recent in July 2025. Dwight E. Nelson ranks #46,969 of 4,157,543 US inventors in our database (top 1.1%). Patent records list Dwight E. Nelson in Shoreview, MN, US.

Patents per Year

Patents granted per year, 2012 to 2025Bar chart with a peak of 10 patents in 2014.peak 102012: 1 patents20122013: 4 patents2014: 10 patents20142015: 6 patents2016: 2 patents20162017: 4 patents2018: 2 patents20182019: 3 patents2020: 3 patents20202021: 5 patents2022: 4 patents20222023: 2 patents2024: 3 patents20242025: 5 patents2025

Issued Patents All Time

Showing 1–25 of 54 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDateApprox Value ⓘ
12357822 Incontinence therapy Xuan K. Wei, Ryan D. Willemsen, Sudha B. Iyer, Kira Stolen, Xin Su 2025-07-15
12322295 Audiovisual content selection Dan Sachs 2025-06-03
12310744 Patient state determination based on one or more spectral characteristics of a bioelectrical brain signal Jianping Wu, Rahul Gupta, Yan Zhao 2025-05-27
12268879 Autotitration of therapy using detected electrical activity Xin Su, Thaddeus S. Brink 2025-04-08
12194301 Managing therapy delivery based on physiological markers Thaddeus S. Brink, Xin Su, Lance Zirpel 2025-01-14
12178603 Patient state determination based on one or more spectral characteristics of a bioelectrical brain signal Jianping Wu, Rahul Gupta, Yan Zhao 2024-12-31 $59,047,000
11931581 Medical therapy target definition Jianping Wu, Gabriela C. Molnar 2024-03-19 $41,321,000
11917250 Audiovisual content selection Dan Sachs 2024-02-27
11744499 Monitoring bladder dysfunction using a probability function Thaddeus S. Brink, Lance Zirpel, Adam P. Steiner 2023-09-05 $42,127,000
11571575 Autotitration of therapy using detected electrical activity Xin Su, Thaddeus S. Brink 2023-02-07 $58,738,000
11376438 Managing therapy delivery based on physiological markers Thaddeus S. Brink, Xin Su, Lance Zirpel 2022-07-05 $57,190,000
11253314 Ablation therapy to disrupt coordinated bladder contractions Thaddeus S. Brink, Blake Hedstrom, Ashish Singal, Xin Su 2022-02-22 $67,159,000
11229364 Patient motion analysis for behavior identification based on video frames with user selecting the head and torso from a frame Jianping Wu, Chih Lai 2022-01-25 $82,522,000
11213340 Therapy to treat pelvic floor dysfunction and/or pain Xin Su, Jason E. Agran 2022-01-04 $41,618,000
11202908 Selective termination of stimulation to deliver post-stimulation therapeutic effect Xin Su 2021-12-21 $150,760,000
11116980 Complex variation of electrical stimulation therapy parameters Thaddeus S. Brink, Lance Zirpel 2021-09-14 $68,502,000
11083402 Patient state determination based on one or more spectral characteristics of a bioelectrical brain signal Jianping Wu, Rahul Gupta, Yan Zhao 2021-08-10 $98,279,000
11045649 Incontinence therapy Xuan K. Wei, Ryan D. Willemsen, Sudha B. Iyer, Kira Stolen, Xin Su 2021-06-29 $93,519,000
11045650 High frequency neurostimulation for pelvic symptom control Thaddeus S. Brink, Lance Zirpel, Xin Su, Blake Hedstrom, Erik J. Peterson +1 more 2021-06-29 $93,519,000
10786674 Medical therapy target definition Jianping Wu, Gabriela C. Molnar 2020-09-29 $73,448,000
10765355 Monitoring bladder dysfunction using a probability function Thaddeus S. Brink, Lance Zirpel, Adam P. Steiner 2020-09-08 $41,136,000
10660699 Ablation therapy to disrupt coordinated bladder contractions Thaddeus S. Brink, Blake Hedstrom, Ashish Singal, Xin Su 2020-05-26 $45,316,000
10518086 Selective termination of stimulation to deliver post-stimulation therapeutic effect Xin Su 2019-12-31 $52,853,000
10456580 Managing therapy delivery based on physiological markers Thaddeus S. Brink, Xin Su, Lance Zirpel 2019-10-29 $86,295,000
10315031 Electrical stimulation to inhibit bladder and/or bowel contraction Thaddeus S. Brink, Xin Su 2019-06-11 $85,726,000