US Patent Issued to Verily Health on Sept. 1 for "Authorizing programming of an implanted device using second factor" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 1 -- United States Patent no. 12,726,826, issued on Sept. 1, was assigned to Verily Health Inc. (Dallas).

"Authorizing programming of an implanted device using second factor" was invented by Michael Andrew Caruso (Castro Valley, Calif.), Adam Bildersee (Burlingame, Calif.), Nehal Patel (Burlingame, Calif.), James Salvia (Belmont, Calif.) and Arvind Govindaraj (San Bruno, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Described herein are techniques to ensure a user using an external device is authorized to connect and connecting to a correct implantable medical device using a wireless communication protocol. A request for authorization is sent to the external device from the imp...