US Patent Issued to PACESETTER on March 17 for "Leadless biostimulator having overmolded header assembly" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,576,278, issued on March 17, was assigned to PACESETTER INC. (Sylmar, Calif.).

"Leadless biostimulator having overmolded header assembly" was invented by Brett C. Villavicencio (Valencia, Calif.), Gintare Kerezyte (Moorpark, Calif.), Wesley Alleman (Santa Clarita, Calif.) and Kavous Sahabi (Winnetka, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A leadless biostimulator, such as a leadless cardiac pacemaker, having a header assembly that includes overmolded components, is described. The header assembly includes a helix mount overmolded on a flange of an electrical feedthrough assembly. A fixation element is mounted on the helix mount. The overm...