ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,779,231, issued on Nov. 3, was assigned to Pacesetter Inc. (Sylmar, Calif.).

"Devices, systems and methods that select electrode vector for conductive communication between external device and implantable medical devices" was invented by Thanh Tieu (Simi Valley, Calif.), Robert Williams (San Jose, Calif.), Yongjian Wu (San Jose, Calif.), Jun Yang (Valencia, Calif.), Mei Phelps (Newbury Park, Calif.), Arash Azarmi (Pasadena, Calif.), Jenny Huang (San Jose, Calif.), Min Yang (Los Altos, Calif.), Hussain Fatakdawala (Milpitas, Calif.) and Dulip Kaluarachchi (Valencia, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "While an external device is not in a...