US Patent Issued to Abiomed on Dec. 30 for "Secure software update for internet-connected medical devices" (Massachusetts Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,511,399, issued on Dec. 30, was assigned to Abiomed Inc. (Danvers, Mass.).

"Secure software update for internet-connected medical devices" was invented by Muhammad Kamran Sami (Northbridge, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods and apparatus for securely updating software for a medical device are described. The method comprises receiving, by the medical device from a firewall device, an indication that a software update for the medical device is available, determining whether the medical device is in a patient use state, and sending a request to the firewall device to establish a bidirectional data transfer communication link betw...