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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 01, 2026
Filed:
Oct. 30, 2020
Medtronic, Inc., Minneapolis, MN (US);
Jeffrey Bodner, Plymouth, MN (US);
Medtronic, Inc., Minneapolis, MN (US);
Abstract
An implantable drug delivery system that includes a drug delivery device configured to deliver a fluid containing one or more pharmaceutical agents to a patient, a plurality of treatment catheters configured to be implanted within the body of a patient and transport the fluid to the two or more treatment sites, and a flow control hub including an inlet connector that fluidically connects to the drug delivery device to receive the fluid, a plurality of outlet connectors that couple to a respective catheter of the plurality of treatment catheters, and one or more flow restrictors that impede the flow of the fluid from the inlet connector to the plurality of outlet connectors to regulate a flow of the fluid through the plurality of treatment catheters under a selected flow distribution.