US Patent Issued to Medtronic on July 29 for "Electrical contact for a medical device lead" (Minnesota Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,370,372, issued on July 29, was assigned to Medtronic Inc. (Minneapolis).

"Electrical contact for a medical device lead" was invented by Damian M. Becker (Columbia Heights, Minn.), Bernard Q. Li (Plymouth, Minn.), Darren A. Janzig (Center City, Minn.) and Thomas J. Conway (White Bear Lake, Minn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A electrical contact for coupling a contact of a medical lead with electronics of a medical device including a contact member having a ring shaped wall defined by a ring inner diameter and ring outer diameter, a housing having a ring shape defining an opening therein, the opening configured to receive the medical le...