US Patent Issued to Medtronic on Oct. 21 for "Rotatable adapter for connecting implantable medical leads to test devices" (Minnesota Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,447,351, issued on Oct. 21, was assigned to Medtronic Inc. (Minneapolis).

"Rotatable adapter for connecting implantable medical leads to test devices" was invented by Zhongping Yang (Woodbury, Minn.), Thomas A. Anderson (New Hope, Minn.), Wade M. Demmer (Coon Rapids, Minn.) and Xiaohong Zhou (Woodbury, Minn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An adapter configured to electrically connect a test device to an implantable medical lead comprises a rotational electrical coupling. The rotational electrical coupling is configured to electrically connect a lead electrical connector to an adapter electrical connector. The rotational electrical coupli...