US Patent Issued to Pacesetter on May 19 for "Method and device for detecting abnormal battery consumption due to extra-battery mechanisms" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,631,690, issued on May 19, was assigned to Pacesetter Inc. (Sylmar, Canada).

"Method and device for detecting abnormal battery consumption due to extra-battery mechanisms" was invented by Fady Dawoud (Studio City, Calif.), Aditya Goil (Stevenson Ranch, Calif.) and Kevin J. Davis (Thousand Oaks, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems, methods, and devices are provided for determining an early battery depletion (EBD) condition of an implantable medical device that includes a memory storing program instructions and a processor executing the program instructions. Circuitry is electrically coupled to the processor, and the circuitry and...