US Patent Issued to Advanced Neuromodulation Systems on Oct. 14 for "Bulkhead anchor for medical device leads" (British, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,440,690, issued on Oct. 14, was assigned to Advanced Neuromodulation Systems Inc. (Plano, Texas).

"Bulkhead anchor for medical device leads" was invented by Chris Dawson (Cambridge, Great Britain), Adam Jackson (Cambridge, Great Britain), Aaron Raines (Dallas) and Manasi Reardon (Allen, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods which provide a bulkhead anchor configuration in which an anchor body includes flexure finger members and a radial bulkhead operable in cooperation to impart a radial compressive force to a corresponding lead body are described. A first portion of a bulkhead anchor body may comprise a plurality of f...