US Patent Issued to Medtronic on Aug. 5 for "Polymeric enclosure for implantable medical device" (Minnesota Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,377,278, issued on Aug. 5, was assigned to Medtronic Inc. (Minneapolis).

"Polymeric enclosure for implantable medical device" was invented by Matthew D. Bonner (Plymouth, Minn.), Pradipta K. Das (Plymouth, Minn.), Allan E. Dienes (Ramsey, Minn.), Jeffrey Sandstrom (Scandia, Minn.) and Jeffrey S. Voss (White Bear Lake, Minn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An implantable medical device system is configured to generate signals and deliver the signals to a heart of a patient. The implantable medical device system includes electronic circuitry configured to deliver cardiac pacing, couplings for an implantable medical lead receptacle, at least ...