US Patent Issued to Medtronic on Jan. 13 for "User centered system for recharging implanted neurostimulator" (Minnesota, Florida Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 13 -- United States Patent no. 12,521,561, issued on Jan. 13, was assigned to Medtronic Inc. (Minneapolis).

"User centered system for recharging implanted neurostimulator" was invented by Andrew Fried (Woodbury, Minn.), Janet Creaser (New Brighton, Minn.), Prathyusha Marri (Blaine, Minn.), Charles M. Nowell (Longwood, Fla.) and Robert Schulzetenberg (Columbia Heights, Minn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for improved user experience with rechargers for implantable medical devices. An external charging device for providing power to a rechargeable implantable device can determine a firmware state of the external charging device during recharging of the ...