US Patent Issued to Medtronic on Oct. 28 for "Energy consumption reduction for medical device connectivity" (Minnesota Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,457,547, issued on Oct. 28, was assigned to Medtronic Inc. (Minneapolis).

"Energy consumption reduction for medical device connectivity" was invented by Nathan A. Torgerson (Andover, Minn.), Ashutosh Mehra (St. Paul, Minn.), Brent P. Johnson (Shoreview, Minn.), Joel A. Anderson (Brooklyn Park, Minn.), Venkat R. Gaddam (Plymouth, Minn.), Arthur K. Lai (Minnetonka, Minn.), Trevor D. Webster (Minneapolis) and Bernard P. Bechara (Minneapolis).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In one example, a system includes telemetry circuitry configured for communication between a medical device and an external device associated with the medical device and pr...