US Patent Issued to BIOTRONIK on July 28 for "Implantable medical device and methods for manufacturing an implantable housing" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,691,291, issued on July 28, was assigned to BIOTRONIK SE & Co. KG (Berlin).

"Implantable medical device and methods for manufacturing an implantable housing" 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, in particular an extravascular cardioverter-defibrillator, comprises: an implantable housing for accommodating a control unit configured to generate and/or process electrical signals; wherein an outer surface of the housing comprises at least one electrode portion for receiving electrical signals to be processed by the control unit and/or for providing electrica...