ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,636,502, issued on May 26, was assigned to Galvani Bioelectronics Ltd. (Stevenage, Great Britain).

"Implantable pulse generator with suture holes, methods for implanting the same, and encapsulation of external components in active implantable medical devices" was invented by Alexander Loo (South San Francisco, Calif.), Peng Cong (Burlingame, Calif.) and David K. Peterson (South San Francisco, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An implantable pulse generator is provided that includes a power source, a wireless communication component configured to facilitate wireless communication with a non-implanted device and pulse-generating circuit...