ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,257,437, issued on March 25, was assigned to Covidien LP (Mansfield, Mass.).
"Intravenous phrenic nerve stimulation lead" was invented by Victor Duijsens (Grevenbicht, Netherlands), Abhijit Bhattacharya (Hyderabad, India) and Lilian Kornet (Eijsden, Netherlands).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Aspects of this disclosure describe methods and systems for phrenic nerve stimulation using a stimulation lead placed in a blood vessel. The stimulation lead includes at least one deformable segment that has at least two configurations. For example, the deformable segment may have an elongate configuration and a non-elongate configuration. In the el...