US Patent Issued to Cardiac Pacemakers on Oct. 20 for "Structural diffusion membranes for chemical sensors" (Minnesota Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,765,811, issued on Oct. 20, was assigned to Cardiac Pacemakers Inc. (St. Paul, Minn.).

"Structural diffusion membranes for chemical sensors" was invented by Michael J. Kane (St. Paul, Minn.), Yingbo Li (Woodbury, Minn.) and Jack Gordon (Minneapolis).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embodiments herein relate to implantable chemical sensors for detecting a physiological analyte and medical devices including the same. In an embodiment, an implantable medical device is included. The implantable medical device can include a chemical sensor configured to detect an ion concentration in a bodily fluid. The chemical sensor can include a sensing elem...