US Patent Issued to Micro-Leads on Dec. 9 for "Implantable devices with welded multi-contact electrodes and continuous conductive elements and method" (Massachusetts, New Hampshire Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,491,371, issued on Dec. 9, was assigned to Micro-Leads Inc. (Somerville, Mass.).

"Implantable devices with welded multi-contact electrodes and continuous conductive elements and method" was invented by Bryan L. Mclaughlin (Cambridge, Mass.), Girish Chitnis (Watertown, Mass.) and John Ogren (Antrim, N.H.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An implantable device has a hermetically sealed enclosure, an electronic device within the hermetically sealed enclosure, and a plurality of feedthrough conductors in mechanical contact with the hermetically sealed enclosure and exposed outside of the hermetically sealed enclosure. The implantable device also...