US Patent Issued to BIOTRONIK on May 26 for "Implantable pulse generator having a pulse generation device" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,636,510, issued on May 26, was assigned to BIOTRONIK SE & Co. KG (Berlin).

"Implantable pulse generator having a pulse generation device" was invented by Thomas Doerr (Berlin), Ingo Weiss (Berlin), Juergen Mueller (Zwickau, Germany) and Thomas Pieske (Berlin).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An implantable pulse generator comprises a pulse generation device generating an output pulse, the pulse generation device comprising a control unit, shock generation circuitry and output circuitry. The shock generation circuitry comprises a first energy storage device, a second energy storage device and a switching device. The switching device is electr...