US Patent Issued to Nevro on Nov. 25 for "Power control circuit for sterilized devices, and associated systems and methods" (California Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,478,784, issued on Nov. 25, was assigned to Nevro Corp. (Redwood City, Calif.).

"Power control circuit for sterilized devices, and associated systems and methods" was invented by Bret Foreman (Redwood City, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A power control circuit for use with devices that will be placed in a flammable sterilizing gas includes a bi-stable switch that is configured to produce an output to place the circuitry of a connected device in a run state or a sleep state. The bi-stable switch controls one or more transistors to drain energy from energy storage devices in the circuitry of the connected device to a level below an...