US Patent Issued to Pacesetter on April 29 for "Implantable medical devices, and methods of use therewith, that detect MRI systems with enhanced specificity" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,285,617, issued on April 29, was assigned to Pacesetter Inc. (Sylmar, Calif.).

"Implantable medical devices, and methods of use therewith, that detect MRI systems with enhanced specificity" was invented by Xing Pei (Thousand Oaks, Calif.), Brad Lindevig (Santa Monica, Calif.), Stuart Rosenberg (Castaic, Calif.) and Nima Badie (Oakland, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embodiments describe herein generally pertain to implantable medical device (IMDs), and methods for use therewith, that can be used to automatically switch an IMD from its normal operational mode to magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) safe mode, and vice versa, within incr...