US Patent Issued to Medtronic on Oct. 21 for "Extravascular implantable electrical lead having undulating configuration" (Minnesota, Florida Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,447,331, issued on Oct. 21, was assigned to Medtronic Inc. (Minneapolis).

"Extravascular implantable electrical lead having undulating configuration" was invented by Mark T. Marshall (Cape Coral, Fla.), Gonzalo Martinez (Mendota Heights, Minn.), Vladimir P. Nikolski (Blaine, Minn.), Nathan L. Olson (Shoreview, Minn.), Kevin R. Seifert (Forest Lake, Minn.) and Teresa A. Whitman (Dayton, Minn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This disclosure describes an implantable medical electrical lead and an ICD system utilizing the lead. The lead includes a lead body defining a proximal end and a distal portion, wherein at least a part of the distal po...