ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,558,552, issued on Feb. 24, was assigned to BIOTRONIK SE & Co. KG (Belin, Germany).
"Thermal dose calculation and protection in an implantable medical device" was invented by David McIntosh (Wilsonville, Ore.), Kai-Oliver Poehlig (West Linn, Ore.), Marcelo Baru (Tualatin, Ore.) and Kevin Carl Lu (Happy Valley, Ore.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A control system (1) is used to control a charging process of an implantable medical device for a patient. The control system (1) includes a means for determining a temperature (10) of a tissue of a patient; and a control unit (20) configured to determine a cumulative thermal dose of the patient ...