US Patent Issued to BIOTRONIK on April 22 for "Leadless cardiac pacemaker device configured to provide his bundle pacing" (Oregon Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,280,263, issued on April 22, was assigned to BIOTRONIK SE & Co. KG (Berlin).

"Leadless cardiac pacemaker device configured to provide his bundle pacing" was invented by Nicholas R. Anderson (Beaverton, Ore.), Jeffrey A. Von Arx (Lake Oswego, Ore.) and Hannes Kraetschmer (West Linn, Ore.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A leadless cardiac pacemaker device is configured to provide HIS bundle pacing and contains a housing having a tip, a first electrode arranged on the housing in the vicinity of the tip, the first electrode being configured to engage with intra-cardiac tissue, and a second electrode arranged on the housing at a distance from t...