US Patent Issued to Medtronic on Jan. 13 for "Devices and methods for multi-alignment of implantable medical devices" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 13 -- United States Patent no. 12,521,236, issued on Jan. 13, was assigned to Medtronic Inc. (Minneapolis).

"Devices and methods for multi-alignment of implantable medical devices" was invented by Justin R. Peterson (Santa Rosa, Calif.), Syed J. Askari (San Jose, Calif.), Shahnaz Javani (Santa Rosa, Calif.), Stuart E. Kari (Windsor, Calif.) and Genevieve E. Farrar (Novato, Calif.).

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