US Patent Issued to Medtronic on July 28 for "Temperature sensors in medical implants" (Minnesota Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,691,293, issued on July 28, was assigned to Medtronic Inc. (Minneapolis).

"Temperature sensors in medical implants" was invented by Brett Otteson (Minneapolis), Venkat R. Gaddam (Plymouth, Minn.), Yohan Kim (Fridley, Minn.) and Boysie R. Morgan (Minneapolis).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Devices, systems, and techniques for monitoring the temperature of a device such as an implantable medical device is disclosed. An implantable medical device includes a housing with at least one support disposed within the housing, a temperature sensor thermally coupled to the interior surface of the housing, wherein the temperature sensor is disposed wi...