ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,364,872, issued on July 22, was assigned to Murata Manufacturing Co. Ltd. (Kyoto-fu, Japan).
"Vivo-implantable medical device" was invented by Koyo Kaiwa (Nagaokakyo, Japan), Takahiro Nagai (Nagaokakyo, Japan) and Tatsuya Hosotani (Nagaokakyo, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An in vivo-implantable medical device includes a housing that includes a body part and a protruding part, and that forms a sealed inner space; a power-receiving coil in a part of the inner space and that receives power by interlinking with external magnetic flux generated by an AC current flowing in an externally located power-transmitting coil; and a circuit su...