US Patent Issued to Saluda Medical on Feb. 17 for "Circuit for a lead of an implantable medical device" (Australian Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,551,697, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to Saluda Medical Pty Ltd (Macquarie Park, Australia).

"Circuit for a lead of an implantable medical device" was invented by Dirk Hartung (Artarmon, Australia).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This disclosure relates to an implantable electric circuit (300) for medical stimulation The circuit comprises a plurality of capacitors (301) and a network of resistors (302). Each of the plurality of capacitors (301) is configured to couple radio frequency energy from one of a plurality of electrically conductive filaments (5) of a lead to the network of resistors (302). Further, the network of resistors (302...