A US-based company that bought MiniMed in July 2001.

Medtronic, Inc. , based in Fridley, Minnesota, is the world's largest medical technology company. Listed among Fortune 500 companies, Medtronic is a publicly traded company and is listed on the New York Stock Exchange under the symbol MDT. The company was founded in 1949 by Earl Bakken and Palmer Hermundslie and is credited with manufacturing the first wearable artificial pacemakers.

a leading maker of implantable biomedical devices