US Patent Issued to BIOTRONIK on Nov. 18 for "Programming device for programming an implantable medical device for stimulating a human or animal heart" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,472,362, issued on Nov. 18, was assigned to BIOTRONIK SE & Co. KG (Berlin).

"Programming device for programming an implantable medical device for stimulating a human or animal heart" was invented by Thomas Doerr (Berlin), Sergey Ershov (Berlin), Torsten Radtke (Berlin), Ulrich Busch (Berlin), Peter Schneider (Berlin), Stefan Paule (Drosendorf, Germany) and Frank Becker (Berlin).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A programming device for programming an implantable medical device for stimulating a human or animal heart, wherein the following steps are performed: a) allowing to select one of at least two electrode lead configurations for stimula...