US Patent Issued to ST. JUDE MEDICAL CARDIOLOGY DIVISION on July 1 for "Method and system for modifying contact status of an electrode" (Minnesota Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,343,171, issued on July 1, was assigned to ST. JUDE MEDICAL CARDIOLOGY DIVISION INC. (St. Paul, Minn.).

"Method and system for modifying contact status of an electrode" was invented by Eric J. Voth (Maplewood, Minn.) and Jeffrey A. Schweitzer (St. Paul, Minn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of modifying contact status of one or more electrodes in a plurality of electrodes located on a medical device includes measuring an electrical characteristic of each electrode in the plurality of electrodes located on the medical device, determining a contact status for each electrode in the plurality of electrodes based on the measured electr...