US Patent Issued to MEDTRONIC on March 31 for "Presentation of patient information for cardiac shunting procedures" (American, Canadian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,588,967, issued on March 31, was assigned to MEDTRONIC INC. (Minneapolis).

"Presentation of patient information for cardiac shunting procedures" was invented by Peter N. Braido (Linwood, Minn.), Randal C. Schulhauser (Phoenix), Richard J. O'Brien (Hugo, Minn.), Anthony W. Rorvick (Champlin, Minn.), Zhongping Yang (Woodbury, Minn.), Nicolas Coulombe (Anjou, Canada), David A. Anderson (Stanchfield, Minn.), Angela M. Liu (Shoreview, Minn.), Robert Kowal (Excelsior, Minn.), Brian D. Pederson (East Bethel, Minn.), Angela N. Burgess (Plymouth, Minn.) and Shinichi J. Takayama (Shoreview, Minn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Novel tools and tec...