ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,427,326, issued on Sept. 30, was assigned to PACESETTER INC. (Sylmar, Calif.).
"Biostimulator having fixation element" was invented by Craig E. Mar (Fremont, Calif.), Thomas B. Eby (Mountain View, Calif.), Paul Paspa (Los Gatos, Calif.), Sondra Orts (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Matthew G. Fishler (Scotts Valley, Calif.), Stephen Lee (San Jose, Calif.), Carl Lance Boling (San Jose, Calif.) and Thomas Robert Luhrs (Santa Rosa, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A biostimulator, such as a leadless cardiac pacemaker, including a fixation element to engage tissue and one or more backstop elements to resist back-out from the tissue, is described. ...