US Patent Issued to Pacesetter on March 17 for "Systems and methods for incorporating a patch antenna in an implantable medical device" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,580,302, issued on March 17, was assigned to Pacesetter Inc. (Sylmar, Canada).

"Systems and methods for incorporating a patch antenna in an implantable medical device" was invented by Perry Li (Arcadia, Calif.) and Lequan Zhang (La Crescenta, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for an implantable medical device which utilizes a patch antenna for communicating with an external device. The implantable medical device includes a housing, a header, and a patch antenna formed using an RF plate and a ground plate, which may be or include a metal surface of the housing. Also, a material of the header forms a dielectric of ...