US Patent Issued to THE ALFRED E. MANN FOUNDATION FOR SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH on Nov. 3 for "System and method for determining and alerting a patient to a low battery condition in an implantable pulse generator (IPG)" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,779,233, issued on Nov. 3, was assigned to THE ALFRED E. MANN FOUNDATION FOR SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH (Valencia, Calif.).

"System and method for determining and alerting a patient to a low battery condition in an implantable pulse generator (IPG)" was invented by Brian Shelton (Ventura, Calif.) and Jeffrey Brydle (Pasadena, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of operating an implantable pulse generator implanted in a patient includes determining, by a processor of the implantable pulse generator, that the patient has awoken; determining, by the processor of the implantable pulse generator, an average daily voltage depletion of a bat...