ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,311,187, issued on May 27, was assigned to Medtronic Inc. (Minneapolis).
"Battery assembly for medical device" was invented by Jeffrey J. Louwagie (Minnetonka, Minn.), Paul B. Aamodt (Prior Lake, Minn.), Vincent Brama (Minnetonka, Minn.), Nicholas H. Finstrom (Elk River, Minn.), Michael B. Hintz (Mahtomedi, Minn.), Vadim A. Yakovlev (Brooklyn Park, Minn.), Kevin D. O'Connell (Lino Lakes, Minn.), Richard W. Swenson (Edina, Minn.), Brian P. Schmidt (Andover, Minn.), Joseph J. Viavattine (Vadnais Heights, Minn.), Puqiang Zhang (Plymouth, Minn.), Hailiang Zhao (Plymouth, Minn.) and Chao Hu (Plymouth, Minn.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In s...