ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,217,860, issued on Feb. 4, was assigned to CraniUS LLC (Baltimore).

"Medical implant software systems and methods" was invented by Conner Delahanty (Baltimore), Aayush Gandhi (Baltimore), Rahul Gangwani (Baltimore), Maximilian Zinkus (Baltimore), Simone Bliss (Baltimore), Tiger Gao (Baltimore), Owen Friesen (Baltimore), John Cai (Baltimore), Vivian Looi (Baltimore) and Isaac Lefkovitz (Baltimore).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for remotely bonding a companion device to an implanted medical device to achieve long-term encrypted and authenticated communication channel, that is resilient to companion device failure or compromise and ...