US Patent Issued to BIOTRONIK on Dec. 30 for "Medical system for performing a therapeutic function on a patient" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,508,429, issued on Dec. 30, was assigned to BIOTRONIK SE & Co. KG (Berlin).

"Medical system for performing a therapeutic function on a patient" was invented by Thomas Doerr (Berlin), Sergey Ershov (Berlin), Torsten Radtke (Berlin) and Uwe Kamenz (Berlin).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A medical system for performing a therapeutic function on a patient comprises an implantable medical device having a switching function to switch from a normal operating mode to an MRI compatible operating mode in the presence of an MRI device, and an external device for programming at least one setting of the implantable medical device. The external device ...