US Patent Issued to Pacesetter on April 22 for "Implantable medical device and method for managing advertising and scanning schedules" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,284,699, issued on April 22, was assigned to Pacesetter Inc. (Sylmar, Calif.).

"Implantable medical device and method for managing advertising and scanning schedules" was invented by Yongjian Wu (Saratoga, Calif.), Jyoti Bhayana (Milpitas, Calif.), Chao-Wen Young (Cupertino, Calif.), Tejpal Singh (Stevenson Ranch, Calif.) and Samir Shah (Valencia, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method and device for managing establishment of a communications link between an external instrument (EI) and an implantable medical device (IMD) are provided. The method stores, in a memory in at least one of the IMD or the EI, a base scanning schedule th...