ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,350,502, issued on July 8, was assigned to Medtronic Inc. (Minneapolis).
"Electrodes for intra-cardiac pacemaker" was invented by Zhongping Yang (Woodbury, Minn.), Becky L. Dolan (Chisago, Minn.), Xin Chen (Blaine, Minn.), Thomas A. Anderson (New Hope, Minn.), Berthold Stegemann (Kassel, Germany) and Maurice Verbeek (Maastricht, Netherlands).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A pacemaker has a housing and a therapy delivery circuit enclosed by the housing for generating pacing pulses for delivery to a patient's heart. An electrically insulative distal member is coupled directly to the housing and at least one non-tissue piercing cathode electr...