US Patent Issued to ST. JUDE MEDICAL CARDIOLOGY DIVISION on Oct. 14 for "Deflectable mapping guide sheath for his bundle pacing" (Minnesota, California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,440,684, issued on Oct. 14, was assigned to ST. JUDE MEDICAL CARDIOLOGY DIVISION INC. (St. Paul, Minn.).

"Deflectable mapping guide sheath for his bundle pacing" was invented by Scott A. Kramer (Minneapolis), Erich W. Stoermer (Plymouth, Minn.), Joshua C. Conway (Wayzata, Minn.), Gene A. Bornzin (Simi Valley, Calif.), Zoltan Somogyi (Simi Valley, Calif.), Amy L. Hanenburg (Minneapolis), Emily Weiss (Minneapolis), Paul A. Belk (Maple Grove, Minn.) and Patrick P. Senarith (Maple Grove, Minn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A delivery device for delivering a pacing lead to the His bundle of a patient's heart includes an elongated sheath havi...