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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 30, 2025
Filed:
Jun. 21, 2022
Medtronic, Inc., Minneapolis, MN (US);
Kevin R. Seifert, Forest Lake, MN (US);
Vania Lee, Circle Pines, MN (US);
Linda L. Franke, Blaine, MN (US);
Lonnie D. Ronning, Coon Rapids, MN (US);
Dina L. Williams, Andover, MN (US);
Michael D. Eggen, Chisago City, MN (US);
Carla C. Pfeiffer, Fridley, MN (US);
Medtronic, Inc., Minneapolis, MN (US);
Abstract
A tethering assembly for securing a medical device includes a shaft and a wire that extends in sliding engagement within a proximal lumen, a channel, and a distal receptacle of the shaft. A retainer zone of the shaft, through which the channel extends, stops a transition segment of the wire, which extends between a proximal and a distal segment of the wire, from moving into the shaft receptacle, thereby restraining a distal-most tip of the wire from moving through a distal-most opening of the receptacle. When a projecting member of the device has entered a secure zone of the receptacle, via movement through the distal-most opening and a tapering passageway thereof, the distal-most tip of the wire, which may be spring-biased, can move distally into the passageway so that the tip blocks the projecting member from moving distally, back through the passageway.