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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 29, 2019
Filed:
May. 31, 2018
Neuropace, Inc., Mountain View, CA (US);
Dean Andersen, San Jose, CA (US);
Stephen T. Archer, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
John Dunagan Pearson, Mountain View, CA (US);
NeuroPace, Inc., Mountain View, CA (US);
Abstract
A flexible antenna is associated with an active implantable medical device to facilitate communication between the implantable medical device and an external component in the outside world via, for example, long range or far field telemetry. The flexibility of the antenna allows it to conform to the shape of the location at which it is situated, such as on the cranial bone of a patient for an antenna associated with a cranially implanted medical device. The conformability of the antenna helps to maintain the antenna in the desired shape and to maintain it in the desired location relative to implantable medical device and the patient and improves patient comfort.