Implantable medical device including a first enclosure portion having a feedthrough in a second interior surface

Abstract T1 · from the patent

An implantable medical device including a hermetic housing containing an electronic circuit, such as a cardiac pacemaker. The electronic circuit may be coupled to a medical lead by means of a connector module formed as part of a molded, resilient shroud extending around the circumference of the hermetic container.

Why it ranks where it does

Origin patent (1993, first-listed); 100 direct citations — second only to the accelerometer among direct-citation counts.

Signals: first-listed inventor · founds its line · see methodology.