US Patent Issued to St. Jude Medical Cardiology Division on June 16 for "Intravascular catheter tip electrode assemblies" (Minnesota Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,653,607, issued on June 16, was assigned to St. Jude Medical Cardiology Division Inc. (St. Paul, Minn.).

"Intravascular catheter tip electrode assemblies" was invented by Timothy G. Curran (St. Paul, Minn.) and Gregory K. Olson (Elk River, Minn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Aspects of the present disclosure are directed to intravascular electrophysiology catheters which utilize electrodes on flexible electronic circuit(s) to facilitate reduced assembly complexity and cost. In one example embodiment, a distal tip assembly of an electrophysiology catheter is disclosed. The distal tip assembly including a catheter shaft, flexible circuitr...