US Patent Issued to Southern Methodist University on Oct. 7 for "Resonant coupler systems and methods for implants" (Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,438,394, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to Southern Methodist University (Dallas).

"Resonant coupler systems and methods for implants" was invented by Jungchih Chiao (Grand Prairie, Texas) and Sen Bing (Dallas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A planar inductive resonant coupler comprising a circular planar loop antenna; and an element disposed within and co-planar with a loop formed by the antenna; wherein one or more antenna or element dimensions are sized to tune a coupler resonance of the coupler. A method of locating a subcutaneous planar inductive resonant coupler including: providing the subcutaneous planar inductive resonant coupler;...