US Patent Issued to Cardiac Pacemakers on Aug. 11 for "Header composite bore for reduced lead insertion force" (Irish, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,702,844, issued on Aug. 11, was assigned to Cardiac Pacemakers Inc. (St. Paul, Minn.).

"Header composite bore for reduced lead insertion force" was invented by James Michael English (Cahir, Ireland), Moira B. Sweeney (St. Paul, Minn.), Robert Allen Jones (Lake Elmo, Minn.) and Benjamin J. Haasl (Forest Lake, Minn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An implantable medical device can include a housing including electronic devices within the housing; a header attached to the housing and including one or more bores configured to receive a lead; and wherein one of the bores includes a structure wherein a first section of the bore includes walls h...