ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,484,853, issued on Dec. 2, was assigned to Medtronic Inc. (Minneapolis).

"System and method for interacting with an implantable medical device" was invented by Corey E Ney (Medina, Minn.) and Kent D Magaard (Wayzata, Minn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "One example of a system includes a local user system to interact with an implantable medical device and a local input device communicatively coupled to the local user system to generate local events. To operate the local user system, the local user system is to receive local events from the local input device and remote events from a remote user system communicatively coupled to the local ...