US Patent Issued to EBR SYSTEMS on Nov. 11 for "Implantable wireless acoustic stimulators with high energy conversion efficiencies" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,465,777, issued on Nov. 11, was assigned to EBR SYSTEMS INC. (Sunnyvale, Calif.).

"Implantable wireless acoustic stimulators with high energy conversion efficiencies" was invented by David F. Moore (San Caros, Calif.), Paul Mohr (Aptos, Calif.), Nathaniel Parker Willis (Atherton, Calif.) and Axel F. Brisken (Fremont, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Receiver-stimulator with folded or rolled up assembly of piezoelectric components, causing the receiver-stimulator to operate with a high degree of isotropy are disclosed. The receiver-stimulator comprises piezoelectric components, rectifier circuitry, and at least two stimulation electr...