ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,508,432, issued on Dec. 30, was assigned to BIOTRONIK SE & Co. KG (Berlin).
"Configurable replacement mechanism for leadless pacemaker system" was invented by Kurt Swenson (Dayton, Ore.), Hannes Kraetschmer (West Linn, Ore.), Brian M. Taff (Portland, Ore.), Dirk Muessig (West Linn, Ore.) and Klaus Schmolinsky (Berlin).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention relates to a system and method for replacing an implanted medical device with an implantable medical replacement device, wherein a programming device sends a command signal to the medical device to change an address of the medical device to a new address being different fr...