US Patent Issued to Medtronic on July 15 for "Lead construction including alignable marker elements" (Chinese, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,357,812, issued on July 15, was assigned to Medtronic Inc. (Minneapolis).

"Lead construction including alignable marker elements" was invented by Jay T. Rassat (Otsego, Minn.), Varun Bhatia (Minneapolis), Kendall Emfield (Excelsior, Minn.), Ryan Lahm (Lino Lakes, Minn.), Alan Cheng (Minneapolis), Douglas S. Hine (Forest Lake, Minn.), Kristin M. Johnson (Circle Pines, Minn.), Gregory N. Nesseth (Forest Lake, Minn.), Jonathan E. Baxter (Fridley, Minn.), Daniel W. Celotta (Circle Pines, Minn.), Stephen A. Howard (Forest Lake, Minn.), Nathan A. Grenz (North Oaks, Minn.), Brian P. Colin (Anoka, Minn.), Ronald A. Drake (St. Louis Park, Minn.), Juan Meng (Shanghai) and Hongyang Lu (Shanghai)...