Warren Watson

Medtronic, Inc. operates as a medical technology company. It offers implantable cardiac pacemakers, eternal defibrillators, inferior turbinate surgery products, and continuous glucose monitoring device. The company was founded by Earl E. Bakken and Palmer J. Hermundslie on April 29, 1949 and is headquartered in Minneapolis, MN.

SurVivaLink Corp. designs and manufactures automated external defibrillators used to treat victims of sudden cardiac arrest. The company was founded by Byron L. Gilman on May 24, 1996 and is headquartered in Minneapolis, MN.

Endocardial Solutions, Inc. designs, develops and manufactures a minimally invasive diagnostic system that diagnoses within the span of a few heartbeats, arrhythmia, a potentially fatal abnormal heart rhythm. The company's EnSite catheters and clinical workstations produce a high-resolution, real-time, three-dimensional color display of electrical activity in the heart chamber, thus allowing electrophysiologists to locate and diagnose tachycardia in real-time and to determine the course of treatment. It was founded in 1992. The company is located in St. Paul, MN.

CardioMEMS LLC designs and manufactures wireless sensing and communication technology for the human body. Its technology platform is designed to improve the management of severe chronic cardiovascular diseases, such as heart failure and aneurysms. The firm’s miniature wireless sensors can be implanted using minimally invasive techniques and transmit cardiac output, blood pressure and heart rate data that are critical to the management of patients. The company was founded by Mark G. Allen and Jay S. Yadav in 1999 is headquartered in Atlanta, GA.

CloSys Corp. designs, develops, and manufactures medical devices. It specializes in vascular closure devices that are used in interventional cardiology and peripheral vascular procedures to close the arterial access site. The company was founded on June 1, 1999 and is headquartered in St. Paul, MN.

Cardialen, Inc. develops medical devices. It offers pain-free cardio version therapy for atrial fibrillation (AF) using low-energy implantable atrial cardioverters. The firm develops and commercializes these as an independent specialist, to address major needs in atrial fibrillation management, achieve improved outcomes and reduce the risk of stroke, heart failure and high healthcare costs associated with atrial fibrillation. The company's products comprise implantable low-energy pain-free atrial cardioverters and cardiac leads and defibrillator equipment. Its products are used for the treatment of atrial and ventricular arrhythmias. Cardialen was founded in 2008 by D. Graeme Thomas, Randy H. Weiss and Igor R. Efimov and is headquartered in St. Louis, MO.

Part of Medtronic Plc, CardioRhythm is a private company that manufactures electrophysiological catheters. The company is based in San Jose, CA. CardioRhythm was acquired by Medtronic, Inc., part of Medtronic Plc from January 27, 2015 on May 26, 1992.

Cameron Health, Inc. develops medical devices for patients and medical professionals. It has developed a totally subcutaneous implantable defibrillator (S-ICD) system that remedies many of the issues associated with traditional implantable cardioverter defibrillators. The company was founded on August 21, 2000 and is headquartered in San Clemente, CA.