US Patent Issued to Medtronic on Nov. 18 for "Implantable cardioverter-defibrillator (ICD) system including substernal lead" (Minnesota Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,472,370, issued on Nov. 18, was assigned to Medtronic Inc. (Minneapolis).

"Implantable cardioverter-defibrillator (ICD) system including substernal lead" was invented by Amy E. Thompson-Nauman (Ham Lake, Minn.), Melissa G. T. Christie (Andover, Minn.), Paul J. DeGroot (Minneapolis), Rick D. McVenes (Isanti, Minn.) and Becky L Dolan (Chisago, Minn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Substernal implantable cardioveter-defibrillator (ICD) systems and methods for providing substernal electrical stimulation therapy to treat malignant tachyarrhythmia, e.g., ventricular tachycardia (VT) and ventricular fibrillation (VF) are described. In one exampl...