US Patent Issued to Cardiac Pacemakers on Feb. 25 for "Implantable medical device with biocompatible battery shell" (Minnesota Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,233,268, issued on Feb. 25, was assigned to Cardiac Pacemakers Inc. (St. Paul, Minn.).

"Implantable medical device with biocompatible battery shell" was invented by Troy Anthony Giese (Blaine, Minn.), Ignacio Chi (Mahtomedi, Minn.), Michael J. Root (Lino Lakes, Minn.) and Larry Michael Killeen (Elk River, Minn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embodiments herein relate to implantable medical devices including a power subunit with a first biocompatible electrically conductive shell configured for direct contact with an in vivo environment. In some embodiments a lithium anode can be disposed within the first biocompatible electrically conduc...