US Patent Issued to MEDTRONIC on Feb. 24 for "Extended intelligence for cardiac implantable electronic device (CIED) placement procedures" (Minnesota, Arizona Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,558,167, issued on Feb. 24, was assigned to MEDTRONIC INC. (Minneapolis).

"Extended intelligence for cardiac implantable electronic device (CIED) placement procedures" was invented by Peter N. Braido (Linwood, Minn.), Randal C. Schulhauser (Phoenix), Xiaohong Zhou (Woodbury, Minn.), Alan Cheng (Golden Valley, Minn.) and Zhongping Yang (Woodbury, Minn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Novel tools and techniques are provided for implementing intelligent assistance ("IA") or extended intelligence ("EI") ecosystem to placement procedures for cardiac implantable electronic device ("CIED"). In various embodiments, a computing system might analyz...