Patent 7361174 was granted and assigned to Boston Scientific on April, 2008 by the United States Patent and Trademark Office.
Apparatus for positioning of a medical device in body tissue includes an angle indexer which mates in at least two positions with an index-key attached to the medical device. The indexer may be hand held or otherwise secured to a separate device, such as an introducer cannula, with the medical device being rotatable relative to the indexer.