US Patent Issued to Heraeus Medical Components on Nov. 25 for "Lead connector with assembly frame and method of manufacture" (Minnesota Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,478,789, issued on Nov. 25, was assigned to Heraeus Medical Components LLC (St. Paul, Minn.).

"Lead connector with assembly frame and method of manufacture" was invented by Paul Schuster (St. Paul, Minn.), Jonathan West (St. Paul, Minn.) and Benjamin Locke (St. Paul, Minn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "One aspect is a method of manufacturing a lead connector for an implantable medical device. The method includes connecting proximal ends of a plurality of conductive pins to a corresponding one of a plurality of ring contacts to form a plurality of ring-pin subassemblies, assembling each of the plurality of ring-pin subassemblies on an as...