Patent ID: 11876286
Assignee: PACESETTER, INC.
Field: Telecommunications (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC H  A | IPC A  H

Claim 0:
1. An implantable medical device comprising: a header connector assembly comprising a connector assembly and a header enclosing the connector assembly; a housing coupled to the header connector assembly and comprising a metal surface, the housing enclosing electronics for the implantable medical device; and a patch antenna enclosed by the header and comprising an RF plate and a ground plate, wherein: a material forming the header serves as a dielectric of the patch antenna, an extension member electrically coupled to the metal surface forms the ground plate, and a portion of the extension member adjacent the metal surface extends perpendicular to a planar orientation of the metal surface, and wherein the portion of the extension member forming the ground plate forms a first ground plate and the metal surface forms a second ground plate, the RF plate sandwiched between the first ground plate and the second ground plate.