US Patent Issued to Cardiac Pacemakers on Sept. 1 for "Implantable medical device selective encapsulation" (Irish, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 1 -- United States Patent no. 12,725,751, issued on Sept. 1, was assigned to Cardiac Pacemakers Inc..

"Implantable medical device selective encapsulation" was invented by Katherine Provo (Plymouth, Minn.), James Michael English (Cahir, Ireland), Shane McGrath (Thurles, Ireland) and Joseph Thomas Delaney Jr. (Minneapolis).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Implantable medical devices including a housing that contains operational circuitry for the implantable medical device and a dispensed hydrogen getter. The hydrogen getter may include a getter carrier material and one or more getter materials carried as suspensions in the getter carrier material, with the getter materials t...