US Patent Issued to University of Pittsburgh-Of the Commonwealth System of Higher Education on March 31 for "Miniaturized radio-frequency transceiver in micro medical implant for dual-functional wireless power transfer and data communication" (Pennsylvania Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,592,744, issued on March 31, was assigned to University of Pittsburgh-Of the Commonwealth System of Higher Education (Pittsburgh).

"Miniaturized radio-frequency transceiver in micro medical implant for dual-functional wireless power transfer and data communication" was invented by Mingui Sun (Pittsburgh), Zhi-Hong Mao (Sewickley, Pa.), Wenyan Jia (Wexford, Pa.), Tianfeng Wang (Pittsburgh) and Qi Xu (Pittsburgh).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Implants include a single tapped coil antenna having a first section and a second section for wireless power transfer, data downlink and data uplink. A modulated wireless power transfer signal is rec...