US Patent Issued to St. Jude Medical Cardiology Division on Feb. 17 for "Layered high density electrode mapping catheter" (Minnesota Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,551,656, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to St. Jude Medical Cardiology Division Inc. (St. Paul, Minn.).

"Layered high density electrode mapping catheter" was invented by Andrew Oliverius (Eagan, Minn.), Neil Hawkinson (Ramsey, Minn.), Timothy S. Marass (Minneapolis), Wade Welter (Brooklyn Park, Minn.), Nicholas Strom (Minneapolis), Quinn Butler (Coon Rapids, Minn.) and James Marrs (Arden Hills, Minn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Various embodiments of the present disclosure can include flexible catheter tip. The flexible catheter tip can include an inboard understructure that defines a tip longitudinal axis, wherein the inboard unders...