ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,605,556, issued on April 21, was assigned to Impulse Dynamics NV (Willemstad).

"Simple control of complex bio-implants" was invented by Shlomo Ben-Haim (Chatelaine, Switzerland), David Prutchi (Voorhees, N.J.) and Yuval Ben-Haim (Marlow, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods and devices for tying management of an implantable medical device to the activities of a primary care physician are described, including access control, simplified parameter optimization, support for tuning a device in response to the effects of other treatments in parallel, and support for helping a primary physician and a patient work together to tu...