US Patent Issued to Medtronic on Nov. 3 for "Implantable medical device delivery for cardiac therapy" (Minnesota Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,779,228, issued on Nov. 3, was assigned to Medtronic Inc. (Minneapolis).

"Implantable medical device delivery for cardiac therapy" was invented by Ronald Drake (St. Louis Park, Minn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Various techniques include advancing an implantable medical device comprising a tissue-piercing electrode toward the triangle of Koch region of the right atrium or through the coronary sinus to deliver cardiac therapy to or sense electrical activity of the left ventricle in the basal region, septal region, or basal-septal region of the left ventricular myocardium of a patient's heart. The tissue-piercing electrode may include an...