US Patent Issued to Cardiac Pacemakers on Oct. 14 for "Output circuitry for multiple-therapy implantable devices" (Minnesota Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,440,694, issued on Oct. 14, was assigned to Cardiac Pacemakers Inc. (St. Paul, Minn.).

"Output circuitry for multiple-therapy implantable devices" was invented by Brandon Tyler Keil (Maple Grove, Minn.), William J. Linder (Golden Valley, Minn.) and Keith R. Maile (New Brighton, Minn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Improved devices, circuits and methods of operation in implantable stimulus systems. An implantable defibrillator may comprise an H-bridge output circuit having low and high sides, with a current controlling circuit coupled to the high side of the H-bridge output circuit and a current monitoring circuit coupled to the low side ...