Electrodes for intra-cardiac pacemaker

US12350502B2 · kind B2 · utility

Assignee

• Medtronic, Inc. · US

Inventors

• Zhongping Yang · Woodbury, US
• Becky L. Dolan · Kost, US
• Xin Chen · Ipswich, GB
• Thomas A. Anderson · New Hope, US
• Berthold Stegemann · Bonn, DE
• Maurice Verbeek · Borgharen, NL

Key dates

• Filing date: Oct 14, 2021
• Grant date: Jul 8, 2025
• Expiry date: Sep 27, 2043

Classification

• Technology area (CPC A): Human Necessities
• CPC primary: A61N2001/058
• WIPO field: Medical technology
• WIPO sector: Instruments

Abstract

A pacemaker has a housing and a therapy delivery circuit enclosed by the housing for generating pacing pulses for delivery to a patient's heart. An electrically insulative distal member is coupled directly to the housing and at least one non-tissue piercing cathode electrode is coupled directly to the insulative distal member. A tissue piercing electrode extends away from the housing.