ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,311,161, issued on May 27, was assigned to Boston Scientific Scimed Inc. (Maple Grove, Minn.).

"Rectifier and the timing of switching of capacitors" was invented by Jacob A Roe (North St. Paul, Minn.), Jonathan P. Roberts (Coon Rapids, Minn.), Joel B. Artmann (Elk River, Minn.), David J. Peichel (Minneapolis) and Michael Kemmerer (Victoria, Minn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An internal coil interface implantable within the body of a patient and configured to modulate a load on an internal coil, and a method therefore are provided. According to one aspect, processing circuitry of the internal coil interface is configured to predict a t...