ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,533,027, issued on Jan. 27, was assigned to International Business Machines Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).
"Medical device system" was invented by Bo Wen (New York), Bing Dang (Chappaqua, N.Y.), Jeffrey L. Rogers (Briarcliff Manor, N.Y.) and Duixian Liu (Scarsdale, N.Y.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system for interfacing an in-body medical device with an external network includes a subdermal wideband on-body network (WON) hub, which in turn includes a hub rechargeable battery, a hub processor coupled to the hub rechargeable battery, a device interface configured to communicate with the in-body medical device, and coupled to the hub processor,...