US Patent Issued to BIOTRONIK on May 19 for "Implantable defibrillation system" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,629,531, issued on May 19, was assigned to BIOTRONIK SE & Co. KG (Berlin).

"Implantable defibrillation system" was invented by Thomas Doerr (Berlin) and Gernot Kolberg (Berlin).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A defibrillation generator for an implantable defibrillation system comprises a housing, a connector block for connecting an electrode lead assembly to be non-transvenously implanted in a patient, and control device for controlling the operation of the defibrillation generator. The connector block has two connectors, to each of which an electrode lead of the electrode lead assembly, said electrode leads having at least one defibrillati...