US Patent Issued to Medtronic on Sept. 9 for "Method and apparatus for implanting a medical device in a coronary sinus" (Minnesota Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,409,329, issued on Sept. 9, was assigned to Medtronic Inc. (Minneapolis).

"Method and apparatus for implanting a medical device in a coronary sinus" was invented by Kaileigh E. Rock (Mahtomedi, Minn.), Ronald A. Drake (St. Louis Park, Minn.) and Kathryn E. Hilpisch (Cottage Grove, Minn.).

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