ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,315,629, issued on May 27, was assigned to Murj Inc. (Santa Cruz, Calif.).

"Systems and methods for managing patient medical devices" was invented by Richard T. Butka (Santa Cruz, Calif.), Christopher S. Irving (Santa Cruz, Calif.) and Patrick Beaulieu (Santa Cruz, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Implementations described and claimed herein provide systems and methods for patient device management. In one implementation, interrogation data is received from a cardiac implantable electronic device corresponding to an interrogation for a patient. The interrogation data includes device data for the cardiac implantable electronic device...