ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,337,186, issued on June 24, was assigned to BIOTRONIK SE & Co. KG (Berlin).

"Implantable pulse generator having rectangular shock waveform" was invented by Thomas Doerr (Berlin) and Ingo Weiss (Berlin).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention relates an implantable pulse generator comprising an electric circuit, wherein the electric circuit comprises: a primary energy store, at least one secondary energy store, and a control unit, wherein the control unit is configured to activate an electric switch in the electric circuit in such a way that, in a first interval of a first phase of a pulse delivery, the primary energy store is...