US Patent Issued to Cardiac Pacemakers on June 2 for "Systems and methods for establishing secure communications between medical device system components" (Minnesota Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,642,976, issued on June 2, was assigned to Cardiac Pacemakers Inc. (St. Paul, Minn.).

"Systems and methods for establishing secure communications between medical device system components" was invented by Daniel Joseph Landherr (Wyoming, Minn.), Ron A. Balczewski (Bloomington, Minn.), Keith R. Maile (New Brighton, Minn.) and William J. Linder (Golden Valley, Minn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embodiments herein relate to medical device systems including features to enable secure wireless communications between components thereof. In an embodiment, a medical device system is included having an implantable medical device packaging unit and...