US Patent Issued to PACESETTER on March 3 for "Implant delivery and retrieval systems and methods" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,564,723, issued on March 3, was assigned to PACESETTER INC. (Sylmar, Calif.).

"Implant delivery and retrieval systems and methods" was invented by Arundhati Kabe (Sunnyvale, Calif.) and Thomas B. Eby (Mountain View, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Implementations described and claimed herein provide systems and methods for delivering and retrieving a leadless pacemaker. In one implementation, a leadless pacemaker has a docking end, and the docking end having a docking projection extending from a surface. A docking cap has a body defining a chamber. The docking cap has a proximal opening into the chamber. The proximal opening is coa...