US Patent Issued to Medtronic on Sept. 1 for "Implantable medical device for controlled fluid flow distribution among a plurality of treatment catheters" (Minnesota Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 1 -- United States Patent no. 12,721,945, issued on Sept. 1, was assigned to Medtronic Inc. (Minneapolis).

"Implantable medical device for controlled fluid flow distribution among a plurality of treatment catheters" was invented by Jeffrey Bodner (Plymouth, Minn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An implantable drug delivery system that includes a drug delivery device configured to deliver a fluid containing one or more pharmaceutical agents to a patient, a plurality of treatment catheters configured to be implanted within the body of a patient and transport the fluid to the two or more treatment sites, and a flow control hub including an inlet connector that fluidically c...