ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,458,795, issued on Nov. 4, was assigned to Medtronic Inc. (Minneapolis).
"Medical device anchoring" was invented by Victor Duijsens (Grevenbicht, Netherlands), Carmen Dimovski (Elk River, Minn.), Paul S. Kratoski (Brooklyn Park, Minn.), Joseph P. Ricci (Ham Lake, Minn.) and Paulus C. van Venrooij (Hoensbroeck, Netherlands).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An apparatus for fastening around a cranial burr hole includes a substantially flat core and a shell encapsulating a ring portion of the core. The shell defines an orifice substantially centered within the ring portion, and has a contoured lower surface to match the cranial curvature. Pliab...