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My design work was for a company called InControl. I did a 2-quarter co-op with them, then went back to school. They asked me back (unprecedented in my school) but I needed to take statics, so passed. Three months later they were purchased by Guidant and 80% of their staff was laid off. I heard Guidant wanted their cardioverter technology. Six years after that, Guidant was purchased by Boston Scientific, thereby launching BSci into implantable cardio devices (previously, they had done stents, shunts and the like). It's probable that the device in your chest isn't just "much like" the ones I helped design, it's a direct descendant. You may very well have my labors inside your body.