ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,706,487, issued on Aug. 11, was assigned to VERMON SA (Tours, France).

"Implantable medical device and method to manufacture such a device" was invented by Thien Hoang (Tours, France), Bogdan Rosinski (Tours, France) and Nicolas Felix (Tours, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An implantable medical device includes a first substrate based on a biocompatible material, wherein the first substrate constitutes a part of a housing of the device and has an external side configured to be put in contact with the biological tissues of a user, wherein the device comprises at least one ultrasonic transducer within a cavity created on an internal...