ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,539,429, issued on Feb. 3, was assigned to Cochlear Ltd. (Macquarie University, Australia).
"Autonomous implantable medical device tuning" was invented by Werner Meskens (Mechelen, Belgium).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Presented herein are implantable medical devices that comprise an implantable portion having a resonant tank circuit that is used to receive signals from one or more external devices. The resonant tank circuit is configured to operate at first and second resonant frequencies, where the first resonant frequency is optimized to exchange data with, and potentially receive operating power from, an external device, while the se...