US Patent Issued to Medtronic on May 13 for "Acoustic power transfer for implantable medical device" (Minnesota Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,296,183, issued on May 13, was assigned to Medtronic Inc. (Minneapolis).

"Acoustic power transfer for implantable medical device" was invented by Jerel Mueller (St. Paul, Minn.) and Sarah Offutt (Golden Valley, Minn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure is directed to an implantable medical device including a housing having a generally planar portion, and a piezoelectric transducer disposed within the housing, wherein a receiving face of the piezoelectric transducer is arranged at an oblique angle with respect to a poling axis of the piezoelectric transducer, and an electrode to deliver a neurostimulation therapy. The im...