US Patent Issued to Medtronic on March 31 for "Ceramic-to-metal joint for implantable pulse generators" (Minnesota Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,589,244, issued on March 31, was assigned to Medtronic Inc. (Minneapolis).

"Ceramic-to-metal joint for implantable pulse generators" was invented by Rajesh V. Iyer (Eden Prarie, Minn.), Steven T. Deininger (Plymouth, Minn.), Jenna N. George (Edina, Minn.), Andrew J. Thom (Maple Grove, Minn.), Brad C. Tischendorf (Minneapolis) and Gordon Munns (Stacy, Minn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An implantable pulse generator configured for delivering one or more electrical pulses to a target region within a body of a patient using an implantable neurostimulation lead, the implantable pulse generator comprising a hermetically sealed housing comp...