ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,702,847, issued on Aug. 11, was assigned to BIOTRONIK SE & Co. KG (Berlin).

"Implantable pulse generator for two-stage therapy" was invented by Thomas Doerr (Berlin) and Ingo Weiss (Berlin).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An implantable medical device for generating electrical stimulations, wherein the medical device is embodied to generate and emit, during a first stimulation phase, at least one first stimulation that has a first amplitude by means of energy from an energy storage element, and wherein the medical device is embodied, during a second stimulation phase following the first stimulation phase, to generate and emit at least one ...