US Patent Issued to Boston Scientific Scimed on Feb. 4 for "Automated and semi-automated designs for battery conditioning in a fully implanted LVAD" (Minnesota Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,214,184, issued on Feb. 4, was assigned to Boston Scientific Scimed Inc. (Maple Grove, Minn.).

"Automated and semi-automated designs for battery conditioning in a fully implanted LVAD" was invented by Joel B. Artmann (Elk River, Minn.), Bo Zhang (Blaine, Minn.), Eric A. Schilling (Ham Lake, Minn.), David I. Siegfried (Edina, Minn.) and Stephen M. Nelson (St. Paul, Minn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In an implanted medical device system, an internal controller, external power transmitter and methods for performing battery conditioning are disclosed. According to one aspect, an internal controller includes processing circuitry configured ...