US Patent Issued to BIOTRONIK on July 14 for "Method for waking up an implantable medical device from a dormant state" (Oregon Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,684,482, issued on July 14, was assigned to BIOTRONIK SE & Co. KG (Berlin).

"Method for waking up an implantable medical device from a dormant state" was invented by Jeffrey A. von Arx (Lake Oswego, Ore.), Alan Fryer (Portland, Ore.), Richard Helvick (Portland, Ore.) and Yu Wang (Lake Oswego, Ore.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for waking up an implantable medical device from a dormant state comprises: sending a wake-up signal via a wireless link by means of an external device; receiving the wake-up signal by the implantable medical device in the dormant state; activating an awake state of the implantable medical device in respo...