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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 10, 2017
Filed:
May. 13, 2014
The Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Mohammad Amin Arbabian, San Francisco, CA (US);
Marcus Weber, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Jayant Charthad, Stanford, CA (US);
The Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Abstract
Aspects of the present disclosure are directed toward apparatuses, systems, and methods that include a base unit and a communication circuit that communicate, while implanted in a patient, signals between the patient and at least one device located external to the patient. The base unit also includes a transducer that communicates ultrasound (US) signals between the base unit and the at least one device located external to the patient, and harvests energy carried by the US signals.