US Patent Issued to Medtronic on July 1 for "Implantable medical electrode assemblies, devices, systems, kits, and methods" (Dutch, American, German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,343,543, issued on July 1, was assigned to Medtronic Inc. (Minneapolis).

"Implantable medical electrode assemblies, devices, systems, kits, and methods" was invented by Vicki L. Bjorklund (Shoreview, Minn.), Xin Chen (Circle Pines, Minn.), William J. Clemens (Fridley, Minn.), Lilian Kornet (Berg en Terblijt, Netherlands), Jean Rutten (Gulpen, Netherlands), Berthold Stegemann (Kassel, Germany) and Zhongping Yang (Woodbury, Minn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method, system and device for implanting an electrode assembly of an implantable medical device in a patient's heart. Positioning one or more radiopaque markers in a coronary sinus ...