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Patent US8862225 - Implant, system and method using implanted passive conductors for routing ... - Google Patents
The present invention provides improvements to an implant, system and method using passive electrical conductors which route electrical current to either external or implanted electrical devices, to multiple target body tissues and to selective target body tissues. The passive electrical conductor extends...http://www.google.co.uk/patents/US8862225?utm_source=gb-gplus-sharePatent US8862225 - Implant, system and method using implanted passive conductors for routing electrical current
Publication number US8862225 B2
Application number US 14/027,930
Also published as CA2608397A1, EP1899002A1, US8332029, US8538517, US20100198298, US20130013041, US20140172053, WO2007002741A1
Publication number 027930, 14027930, US 8862225 B2, US 8862225B2, US-B2-8862225, US8862225 B2, US8862225B2
Inventors Arkady Glukhovsky, Yitzhak Zilberman, Arthur Prochazka, Mark Chamberlain, Ross Davis, Joseph Schulman
Patent Citations (134), Non-Patent Citations (86), Referenced by (2), Classifications (11), Legal Events (2)
Implant, system and method using implanted passive conductors for routing electrical current
US 8862225 B2
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International Classification A61N1/04, A61N1/36, A61N1/00, A61N1/05
Cooperative Classification A61N1/36017, A61N1/0551, A61N1/05, A61N1/36071, A61N1/0456, A61N1/36021