US Patent Issued to Boston Scientific Scimed on Aug. 5 for "Leadless cardiac stimulation systems" (Minnesota, Florida Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,377,263, issued on Aug. 5, was assigned to Boston Scientific Scimed Inc. (Maple Grove, Minn.).

"Leadless cardiac stimulation systems" was invented by Roger Hastings (Naples, Fla.), Anupama Sadasiva (Maple Grove, Minn.), Michael J. Pikus (Golden Valley, Minn.) and Graig L. Kveen (Maple Grove, Minn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Various configurations of systems that employ leadless electrodes to provide pacing therapy are provided. In one example, a system that provides multiple sites for pacing of myocardium of a heart includes wireless pacing electrode assemblies that are implantable at sites proximate the myocardium using a percutaneou...