US Patent Issued to St. Jude Medical Cardiology Division on Aug. 26 for "Flex tip fluid lumen assembly with termination tube" (Minnesota Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,396,788, issued on Aug. 26, was assigned to St. Jude Medical Cardiology Division Inc. (St. Paul, Minn.).

"Flex tip fluid lumen assembly with termination tube" was invented by Daniel Joe Potter (Stillwater, Minn.), Xuan Yen Khieu (Maple Grove, Minn.), Benjamin Carl Breidall (Eden Prairie, Minn.), Andrew Oliverius (Eagan, Minn.), Sameer Deviprasad Pai (Plymouth, Minn.) and Troy T. Tegg (Elk River, Minn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A catheter tip is disclosed comprising a tip electrode comprising a ledge feature, and a center cavity and a manifold assembly comprising a fluid lumen manifold and a stop tube. The stop tube can be coupled to...