US Patent Issued to St. Jude Medical Atrial Fibrillation Division on May 13 for "Catheter electrode assemblies and methods of construction thereof" (Minnesota, Massachusetts Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,295,649, issued on May 13, was assigned to St. Jude Medical Atrial Fibrillation Division Inc. (St. Paul, Minn.).

"Catheter electrode assemblies and methods of construction thereof" was invented by Dale E. Just (Minneapolis), Troy T. Tegg (Elk River, Minn.), Theodore A. Johnson (St. Paul, Minn.) and Sacha C. Hall (Westborough, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A family of catheter electrode assemblies includes a flexible circuit having a plurality of electrical traces and a substrate; a ring electrode surrounding the flexible circuit and electrically coupled with at least one of the plurality of electrical traces; and an outer covering...