US Patent Issued on Oct. 20 for "Extension of a previously implanted lead or electrode" (Ohio Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,766,313, issued on Oct. 20.

"Extension of a previously implanted lead or electrode" was invented by Manfred Franke (Cleveland), John Wardle (Cleveland), Stephan Nieuwoudt (Cleveland), Emily Szabo (Cleveland) and Shaher Ahmad (Cleveland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system and methods and disclosed for extending a previously implanted lead for connecting to an internal pulse generator (IPG), or for extending the lead to a new tissue target."

The patent was filed on July 28, 2022, under Application No. 18/292,852.

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