US Patent Issued to Medtronic on April 15 for "Guide wire system" (Minnesota Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,274,842, issued on April 15, was assigned to Medtronic Inc. (Minneapolis).

"Guide wire system" was invented by Matthew D. Bonner (Plymouth, Minn.), Kathryn E. Hilpisch (Cottage Grove, Minn.) and Ronald A. Drake (St. Louis Park, Minn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A guide wire system configured to guide a medical device (e.g., a medical lead) to a target area within a patient. The guide wire system may be configured to penetrate and pass through a tissue wall in the patient to guide the medical device to the target area. The guide wire system includes a support section configured to expand to substantially maintain a position relative to ...