US Patent Issued to St. Jude Medical Cardiology Division on June 3 for "Depicting force" (Minnesota Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 4 -- United States Patent no. 12,318,145, issued on June 3, was assigned to St. Jude Medical Cardiology Division Inc. (St. Paul, Minn.).

"Depicting force" was invented by Michael A. Quinn (St. Paul, Minn.) and Daniel R. Starks (Lake Elmo, Minn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A force exerted on a distal end of an elongate medical device can be determined. A graphical representation of the distal end of the elongate medical device and a graphical representation of the force exerted on the distal end of the elongate medical device can be computed. The graphical representation of the force can emanate from the graphical representation of the distal end of the elongate medica...