US Patent Issued to THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY on April 21 for "Method and apparatus for efficient communication with implantable devices" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,609,730, issued on April 21, was assigned to THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY (Stanford, Calif.).

"Method and apparatus for efficient communication with implantable devices" was invented by Anatoly Anatolievich Yakovlev (Mountain View, Calif.), Daniel Pivonka (Palo Alto, Calif.), Ada Poon (Redwood City, Calif.) and Teresa H. Meng (Saratoga, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Described herein are methods of making and using and apparatus for wirelessly communicating data and providing power, particularly from a location exterior to a body and to an implantable device disposed within a body with tissue. Th...