US Patent Issued to NuVasive Specialized Orthopedics on April 15 for "Ultrasonic communication in medical devices" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,274,896, issued on April 15, was assigned to NuVasive Specialized Orthopedics Inc. (San Diego).

"Ultrasonic communication in medical devices" was invented by Youngsam Bae (Los Angeles), Khoa Pham (Garden Grove, Calif.), Niels Smidth (Laguna Beach, Calif.), Everett Van Zuiden (Chula Vista, Calif.), Jorge Lopez Camacho (Aliso Viejo, Calif.) and Michael Moeller (Aliso Viejo, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure provides implants, sensor modules, networks, and methods configured to establish transcutaneous power and transcutaneous bidirectional data communication using ultrasound signals between two or more medical dev...