ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,734,365, issued on Sept. 15, was assigned to Cardiac Pacemakers Inc. (St. Paul, Minn.).

"Header index locking bore assembly" 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, and a header attached to the housing. The header can have an index locking assembly including one or more connector bores arranged within the header, each of the one or more connector bores including a proximal end ...