US Patent Issued to Cardiac Pacemakers on Sept. 2 for "Electric field shaping leads for treatment of cancer" (Minnesota Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,403,306, issued on Sept. 2, was assigned to Cardiac Pacemakers Inc. (St. Paul, Minn.).

"Electric field shaping leads for treatment of cancer" was invented by Brian L. Schmidt (White Bear Lake, Minn.), Jacob M. Ludwig (Isanti, Minn.), Benjamin J. Haasl (Forest Lake, Minn.) and Michael J. Kane (St. Paul, Minn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embodiments herein relate to medical devices including electric field shaping leads and methods for using the same to treat cancerous tumors within a bodily tissue. In an embodiment, an implantable lead for a cancer treatment system is disclosed. The lead can include a lead body having a proximal end an...