Patent ID: 7873419

Claim:
A retinal prosthesis comprising a video capture device; a source of power; a primary inductive data transmission coil suitable to be placed outside of the body and electrically coupled to said video capture device and said source of power and transmitting video information from said video capture device; an electrode array suitable to be mounted in close proximity to a retina; a strap suitable to surround the eye; a hermetic at least partially ceramic electronics package encasing active and passive electronics and mounted on said strap; an electrical cable coupling said electrode array to said hermetic at least partially ceramic electronics package; wherein said electrical cable is suitable to pierce the pars plana region of the sclera; a secondary inductive data transmission coil mounted on said strap next to, and coplanar with, said hermetic at least partially ceramic electronics package, electrically coupled to said hermetic at least partially ceramic electronics package, suitable to be mounted to the side of a sclera and in close proximity to said primary inductive coil and receiving the video information from said primary inductive coil; wherein height above the sclera of said strap hermetic at least partially ceramic electronics package and coil is minimized.