US Patent Issued to Medtronic on April 7 for "Medical tools for and methods of gaining access to extravascular spaces" (American, Indian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,594,089, issued on April 7, was assigned to Medtronic Inc. (Minneapolis).

"Medical tools for and methods of gaining access to extravascular spaces" was invented by Garrett P. Ebersole (Hamden, Conn.), Kyle R. Marquard (Lino Lakes, Minn.), Krishnakumar Somasundaram (Kovaipudur, India), Stanislaw Z. Marczyk (Stratford, Conn.), Linnea R. Lentz (Stacy, Minn.), Olesea Diaz-Chiosa (Naugatuck, Conn.) and Christopher Switalski (Glastonbury, Conn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In some examples, a tool for, e.g., creating a sub-sternal tunnel in a patient or other use, is described. The tool may include a handle and a tunneling shaft coupled to t...