US Patent Issued to THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY on March 24 for "Wireless midfield systems and methods" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,582,827, issued on March 24, was assigned to THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY (Palo Alto, Calif.).

"Wireless midfield systems and methods" was invented by Ada Shuk Yan Poon (Redwood City, Calif.), Alexander Jueshyan Yeh (Los Altos Hills, Calif.), Yuji Tanabe (Cupertino, Calif.), John Ho (Palo Alto, Calif.) and Sanghoek Kim (Palo Alto, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Implantable devices and/or sensors can be wirelessly powered by controlling and propagating electromagnetic waves in a patient's tissue. Such implantable devices/sensors can be implanted at target locations in a patient, to stimulate areas...