US Patent Issued to Cardiac Pacemakers on Feb. 17 for "Bundle of His lead delivery catheter, system and method" (Minnesota Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,551,235, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to Cardiac Pacemakers Inc. (St. Paul, Minn.).

"Bundle of His lead delivery catheter, system and method" was invented by Andrew L. De Kock (Ham Lake, Minn.), G. Shantanu Reddy (Minneapolis), Newell G. Voss (Woodbury, Minn.) and Lili Liu (Maple Grove, Minn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A catheter for delivering a medical electrical lead to a bundle of His from within a right atrium of a heart. The catheter includes a straight portion and a hook portion projecting from a distal end of the straight portion. The hook portion includes a first curved portion, a second curved portion, and a third curved...