US Patent Issued to PACESETTER on July 22 for "Biostimulator header assembly having integrated antenna" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,364,866, issued on July 22, was assigned to PACESETTER INC. (Sylmar, Calif.).

"Biostimulator header assembly having integrated antenna" was invented by Bei Ning Zhang (Pasadena, Calif.), Brett C. Villavicencio (Valencia, Calif.), Perry Li (Arcadia, Calif.) and Souvik Dubey (Woodland Hills, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A biostimulator, such as a leadless cardiac pacemaker, having a header assembly that includes an antenna, is described. The antenna can be integrated into an insulator that separates an electrode of the header assembly from a flange of the header assembly. The antenna includes an antenna loop embedded in a ceramic ...