US Patent Issued to Roche Diabetes Care on Sept. 1 for "Modular implantable medical device" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 1 -- United States Patent no. 12,721,548, issued on Sept. 1, was assigned to Roche Diabetes Care Inc. (Indianapolis).

"Modular implantable medical device" was invented by Hans List (Oberzent, Germany) and Frederic Wehowski (Hockenheim, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An implantable medical device has an implantable power supply and an implantable medical unit. The implantable supply powers the device and it includes a hermetically sealed supply housing, a battery, and a supply power coupler that powers the implantable medical unit from the battery via a wireless coupling. The implantable medical device also has a hermetically sealed medical unit housing, and it i...