US Patent Issued to Greatbatch on March 17 for "Active medical device having a terminal housing assembly connected to a printed circuit board assembly without an intermediate feedthrough" (Uruguayan Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,576,280, issued on March 17, was assigned to Greatbatch Ltd. (Clarence, N.Y.).

"Active medical device having a terminal housing assembly connected to a printed circuit board assembly without an intermediate feedthrough" was invented by Luis Daniel Villamil (Montevideo, Uruguay), Camila Duarte (Montevideo, Uruguay) and Ignacio Agustin Armesto (Montevideo, Uruguay).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An AMD has a main housing closed by an end cap. A PCB supports electrical contacts connected to electronic components. An electrical power source powers the electronic components. A metallic sleeve connected to an inner surface of the end cap has a...