US Patent Issued to St. Jude Medical Cardiology Division on Feb. 17 for "Steerable introducer with slide block divider" (Minnesota Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,551,658, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to St. Jude Medical Cardiology Division Inc. (St. Paul, Minn.).

"Steerable introducer with slide block divider" was invented by Wade Welter (Crystal, Minn.), Andrew Oliverius (Zimmerman, Minn.), Troy Tegg (Elk River, Minn.), Neil Hawkinson (Ramsey, Minn.) and Manuel Tobias Cajamarca (Shakopee, Minn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A steerable introducer deflectable via a handle assembly is described. The handle assembly includes slide members disposed within a slide chassis and coupled to deflection wires to deflect the introducer, and a slide block divider for constraining slide members. The slide...