US Patent Issued to BIOTRONIK on Aug. 19 for "Communication system and method for an implantable medical device" (American, German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,390,651, issued on Aug. 19, was assigned to BIOTRONIK SE & Co. KG (Berlin).

"Communication system and method for an implantable medical device" was invented by Brian M. Taff (Portland, Ore.), Kurt Swenson (Dayton, Ore.), Dean Bergstrom (West Linn, Ore.) and Julian Merlin (Berlin).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The invention is directed to a communication system for a wireless message transfer between an implantable medical device (IMD) and an external device. A communication system is disclosed that effectively throttles/manages messages in a limited resource communication scheme, wherein the IMD is configured to monitor the health status...