US Patent Issued to Shifamed Holdings on Feb. 10 for "Systems and methods for electrical monitoring of implantable devices" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,544,010, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to Shifamed Holdings LLC (Campbell, Calif.).

"Systems and methods for electrical monitoring of implantable devices" was invented by Peter Andriola (Castro Valley, Calif.) and Brian Fahey (Menlo Park, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present technology relates to shunting systems and methods. In some embodiments, the present technology includes a method for monitoring a shunting element implanted in a patient and having a lumen fluidly coupling two body regions. The method can comprise applying an electrical input to a first contact region and a second contact region of the shunting elemen...