US Patent Issued to ST. JUDE MEDICAL CARDIOLOGY DIVISION on July 7 for "Medical devices for treating a target site and associated method" (Minnesota Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,672,878, issued on July 7, was assigned to ST. JUDE MEDICAL CARDIOLOGY DIVISION INC. (St. Paul, Minn.).

"Medical devices for treating a target site and associated method" was invented by Sarah Ellen Drilling (Minneapolis), John C Oslund (Blaine, Minn.), Mathias C Glimsdale (St. Michael, Minn.) and Xiaoping Gu (Maplewood, Minn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embodiments of the present invention provide devices and methods for treating various target sites, such as vascular abnormalities. For example, a medical device according to one embodiment includes at least one layer of a fabric of braided strands having proximal and distal ends and a...