ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,576,279, issued on March 17, was assigned to Axonics Inc. (Irvine, Calif.).

"Header for a neurostimulator" was invented by Henry Lee (Irvine, Calif.), Prabodh Mathur (Laguna, Calif.), David Marvicsin (Irvine, Calif.), John Miller (Irvine, Calif.), Darin Shirakata (Irvine, Calif.), Arun Venkatasubramanian (Singapore) and Ranga Jegadeesan (Singapore).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An implantable pulse generator (IPG) including a case containing an energy storage device and one or more electrode leads. A header is coupled to the case. The header includes a cassette, an antenna coupled to the cassette and electrically coupled to the case, th...