US Patent Issued to St. Jude Medical International Holding S.a r.l. on March 3 for "Force sensing catheter system" (Minnesota Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,564,357, issued on March 3, was assigned to St. Jude Medical International Holding S.a r.l. (Luxembourg).

"Force sensing catheter system" was invented by Gregory Dakin (Edina, Minn.), Quinn Butler (Coon Rapids, Minn.) and Xiangyang Zhang (Maple Grove, Minn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Aspects of the present disclosure are directed toward systems and methods for detecting force applied to a distal tip of a medical catheter. A medical catheter includes a deformable body near a distal tip of the catheter that deforms in response to a force applied at the distal tip, and a sensor detects various components of the deflection. Processor cir...