US Patent Issued to Pacesetter on Feb. 17 for "Implantable medical device with multi-sided header electrode" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,551,153, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to Pacesetter Inc. (Sylmar, Canada).

"Implantable medical device with multi-sided header electrode" was invented by Alex Robertson (Los Angeles), Arees Garabed (North Hills, Calif.), Leyla Sabet (Los Angeles), Chunlan Jiang (Northridge, Calif.) and Eric Somogyi (Simi Valley, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An implantable medical device includes a header configured to be mounted to an end of a device housing that contains an electronics module therein. The header includes an antenna, a sensing electrode, and a header body that at least partially surrounds the antenna and the sensing electrode...