US Patent Issued to Medtronic on March 25 for "Post operative implantation site monitoring" (Singaporean, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,262,153, issued on March 25, was assigned to Medtronic Inc. (Minneapolis).

"Post operative implantation site monitoring" was invented by Rodolphe Katra (Blaine, Minn.), Amie Bucksa (Ham Lake, Minn.) and Niranjan Chakravarthy (Singapore).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques for remote monitoring of a patient and corresponding medical device(s) are described. The remote monitoring comprises determining identification data and identifying implantable medical device (IMD) information, initiating an imaging device and determining an imaging program, receiving one or more frames of image data including image(s) of an implantation site, id...