US Patent Issued to ST. JUDE MEDICAL CARDIOLOGY DIVISION on July 14 for "Occluder medical device" (Minnesota Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,678,149, issued on July 14, was assigned to ST. JUDE MEDICAL CARDIOLOGY DIVISION INC. (St. Paul, Minn.).

"Occluder medical device" was invented by Tracee Eidenschink (Wayzata, Minn.), Andrea Stafford (New Brighton, Minn.), Erika Beek (Bloomington, Minn.) and Michael P. Meyer (Minnestrista, Minn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A medical device includes a device frame, including a proximal portion and a distal portion and configured to selectively transition between a collapsed configuration and an expanded configuration. The medical device also includes at least one cover, wherein at least one cover is coupled to at least one of the proxi...