ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,589,247, issued on March 31, was assigned to Saluda Medical Pty Ltd (Macquarie Park, Australia).
"Power efficient stimulators" was invented by Peter Scott Vallack Single (Artarmon, Australia) and James Hamilton Wah (Artarmon, Australia).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This disclosure relates to a device for applying a neural stimulus. A battery supplies electrical energy at a battery voltage and an electrode applies the electrical energy to neural tissue. A circuit measures the nervous response of the tissue and a voltage converter receives the electrical energy from the battery and controls a voltage applied to the electrode based on the...