Medtronic assigned patent for medical device sensing and detection during MRI
Medtronic, Minneapolis, has been assigned a patent developed by Volkert A. Zeijlemaker, Landgraaf, The Netherlands, for a ``medical device sensing and detection during MRI.''
Medtronic was awarded $101.2 million in a patent infringement lawsuit when a San Diego jury found that NuVasive's CoRoent XL spine implants, MaXcess II and III tissue retractors, and Helix and Helix mini anterior cervical plates had infringed on three Medtronic patents owned by Warsaw Orthopedic, Inc., a Medtronic unit.