ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,296,180, issued on May 13, was assigned to Calyan Technologies Inc. (Saint Paul, Minn.).

"Method of injecting subcutaneous device" was invented by Yatheendhar D. Manicka (Woodbury, Minn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A subcutaneous device that includes an electronics-containing housing and a clip configured to anchor the device to an internal structural body component of a patient is injected and anchored to the structural body component. An instrument pre-loaded with the device is caused to be inserted through an incision in the patient and advanced to the structural body component. A pushing force is received on the instrument that ca...