US Patent Issued to Regents of the University of Minnesota on Sept. 15 for "Nanopatterned soft-magnetic material-based microcoil for highly focused, low-power, implantable magnetic stimulation" (Minnesota Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,734,370, issued on Sept. 15, was assigned to Regents of the University of Minnesota (Minneapolis).

"Nanopatterned soft-magnetic material-based microcoil for highly focused, low-power, implantable magnetic stimulation" was invented by Jian-Ping Wang (Minneapolis), Renata Saha (Minneapolis), Diqing Su (Minneapolis) and Kai Wu (Minneapolis).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A stimulator includes a support layer, a coil supported by the support layer, the coil extending around a central area, and a plurality of pillars supported by the support layer in the central area."

The patent was filed on April 1, 2021, under Application No. 17/995,229....