ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,694,958, issued on July 28, was assigned to Pacesetter Inc. (Sylmar, Calif.).

"Platform supporting centralized access for remote MRI workflow for implanted devices" was invented by Amber Durica (San Francisco) and Yash Vardhan Tiwari (Santa Clarita, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A healthcare system comprises an MR platform comprising non-transitory memory storing program instructions and patient specific records that include information associated with an implantable medical device (IMD) and a patient. The MR platform has processors that, when executing the program instructions, are configured to i) receive an MRI exam referral r...