US Patent Issued to St. Jude Medical Cardiology Division on Oct. 21 for "Guidance for navigation and positioning of intravascularly delivered devices" (Canadian, American, Italian, German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,446,973, issued on Oct. 21, was assigned to St. Jude Medical Cardiology Division Inc. (St. Paul, Minn.).

"Guidance for navigation and positioning of intravascularly delivered devices" was invented by Louis-Philippe Richer (Montreal), Nikolaos Politis (Berlin), Jan Mangual (Rho, Italy), Saurabh Datta (Pleasanton, Calif.), Luc Soucie (Clarence Creek, Canada) and Theodore Paul Dale (Corcoran, Minn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques are provided for guidance for navigation and positioning of intravascularly delivered devices. A medical navigation system includes a delivery device comprising a catheter, an intravascularly delivered de...