US Patent Issued to Greatbatch on Aug. 12 for "Feedthrough with an integrated charging antenna for an active implantable medical device" (American, Uruguayan Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,383,750, issued on Aug. 12, was assigned to Greatbatch Ltd. (Clarence, N.Y.).

"Feedthrough with an integrated charging antenna for an active implantable medical device" was invented by Luis Daniel Villamil (Montevideo, Uruguay), Keith W. Seitz (Clarence Center, N.Y.), Jonathan Calamel (Clarence, N.Y.), Thomas Marzano (East Amherst, N.Y.) and Robert A. Stevenson (Canyon Country, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An inductive charging antenna for charging the power source of an active implantable medical device (AIMD) is described. The charging antenna is supported on the body fluid side of the feedthrough insulator, on the device side...