US Patent Issued to Advanced Bionics on Feb. 11 for "Systems and methods for providing electromagnetic therapy to an implantable device recipient" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,220,596, issued on Feb. 11, was assigned to Advanced Bionics AG (Staefa, Switzerland).

"Systems and methods for providing electromagnetic therapy to an implantable device recipient" was invented by Leonid M. Litvak (Los Angeles), R. Tissa Karunasiri (Valencia, Calif.), Kanthaiah Koka (Valencia, Calif.) and Smita S. Agrawal (Stevenson Ranch, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An illustrative system includes a coil configured to be positioned over a wound on a body and held in place on the body by a magnet implanted within the body; and a controller communicatively coupled to the coil, the controller configured to apply therapeutic elec...