US Patent Issued to Medtronic on July 7 for "Energy harvesting system integrity monitoring" (Minnesota Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,673,210, issued on July 7, was assigned to Medtronic Inc. (Minneapolis).

"Energy harvesting system integrity monitoring" was invented by Michael P. Campbell (Blaine, Minn.) and Richard J. O'Brien (Hugo, Minn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system includes harvester circuitry configured to charge a battery for a medical device using a displacement of a harvester mass, one or more accelerometers configured to detect a motion associated with the harvester mass, and processing circuitry. The processing circuitry is configured to determine, with the one or more accelerometers, motion information for the implanted medical device during a time...