US Patent Issued to Medtronic on March 18 for "Interventional medical devices, device systems, and fixation components thereof" (Minnesota Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,251,559, issued on March 18, was assigned to Medtronic Inc. (Minneapolis).

"Interventional medical devices, device systems, and fixation components thereof" was invented by Xin Chen (Blaine, Minn.), Michael D. Eggen (Chisago City, Minn.), Vladimir Grubac (Brooklyn Park, Minn.), Brian P. Colin (Anoka, Minn.), Wei Gan (Woodbury, Minn.), Thomas A. Anderson (New Hope, Minn.) and Kathryn Hilpisch (Cottage Grove, Minn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A fixation mechanism of an implantable medical device is formed by a plurality of tines fixedly mounted around a perimeter of a distal end of the device. Each tine may be said to include a first s...