US Patent Issued to Cardiac Pacemakers on Aug. 11 for "Implantable medical device with motion damping layer" (American, Irish Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,702,845, issued on Aug. 11, was assigned to Cardiac Pacemakers Inc..

"Implantable medical device with motion damping layer" was invented by Arild Vedoy (Forest Lake, Minn.), Benjamin J. Haasl (Forest Lake, Minn.), Katherine Provo (Plymouth, Minn.) and Shane McGrath (Thurles, Ireland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Implantable medical devices are constructed with a dampening layer to limit motion of components inside a housing of the implantable medical devices. The dampening layer may have features to provide thermal isolation for certain components. The dampening layer may have features to allow mechanical vibration of selected component...