US Patent Issued to BIOTRONIK on June 2 for "Implantable medical device comprising an electrical line forming an antenna" (Oregon Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,642,977, issued on June 2, was assigned to BIOTRONIK SE & Co. KG (Berlin).

"Implantable medical device comprising an electrical line forming an antenna" was invented by Jeffrey A. von Arx (Lake Oswego, Ore.), Yu Wang (Lake Oswego, Ore.) and James E. Brown (Tigard, Ore.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An implantable medical device comprises an electronics module comprising communication circuitry for at least one of transmitting communication signals to and receiving communication signals from an external communication device, and further comprising processing circuitry for at least one of processing sensed biological signals and generating...