US Patent Issued to Medtronic on March 25 for "Post operative implantation site monitoring and medical device performance" (Minnesota Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,260,555, issued on March 25, was assigned to Medtronic Inc. (Minneapolis).

"Post operative implantation site monitoring and medical device performance" was invented by Michael Erich Jordan (St. Paul, Minn.).

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 identifying a first set of images that represent a particular location of a body of a patient in which at least one component of an implantable medical device (IMD) coincides, determining a projection of alteration characteristics of the particular location of the body, identif...