US Patent Issued to The Future of Pacing on April 15 for "Multielectrode medical lead with fixation" (Minnesota, Washington Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,274,876, issued on April 15, was assigned to The Future of Pacing LLC (Brooklyn Park, Minn.).

"Multielectrode medical lead with fixation" was invented by Terrell M. Williams (Brooklyn Park, Minn.) and Gopi Dandamudi (Gig Harbor, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A medical lead includes a lead body, a lead body helix extending from a distal end of the lead body, wherein the lead body helix is configured to anchor to a patient tissue, and, a cable within the lead body, the cable including a cable conductor, a cable electrode proximate a distal end of the cable conductor, and a cable helix with a blunt tip at a distal end of the cable. Th...