US Patent Issued to Medtronic on Aug. 4 for "Feedthrough assembly and implantable medical device including same" (Minnesota, Arizona Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,697,496, issued on Aug. 4, was assigned to Medtronic Inc. (Minneapolis).

"Feedthrough assembly and implantable medical device including same" was invented by Andrew J. Ries (Lino Lakes, Minn.), Mark E. Henschel (Phoenix), James R. Wasson (Tempe, Ariz.), Chunho Kim (Phoenix), Walter E. Benecke (Scottsdale, Ariz.), Kris A. Peterson (Edina, Minn.), Jeff M. Wheeler (Gilbert, Ariz.) and Songhua Shi (Tempe, Ariz.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Various embodiments of a feedthrough assembly are disclosed. The assembly includes a header and a test fanout layer electrically connected to the header. A first major surface of the test fanout layer fac...