Medtronic

At a glance

Legal name

Medtronic plcverifiedSource

1. Wikipedia — Medtronichttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Medtronic

Updated: 2026-05-04

Aliases

Medtronic, Inc., Medtronic NeuromodulationverifiedSource

1. FDA PMA P960009 — Medtronic Activa / Percept lineagehttps://www.accessdata.fda.gov/scripts/cdrh/cfdocs/cfpma/pma.cfm?id=P960009

Updated: 2026-05-04

Type

public-companyverifiedSource

1. Wikipedia — Medtronichttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Medtronic

Updated: 2026-05-04

Focus areas

medical-implant, neurostimulation, therapeuticverifiedSource

1. Medtronic — official sitehttps://www.medtronic.com

Updated: 2026-05-04

Founded

1949-04-29verifiedSources (2)

1. Wikipedia — Medtronichttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Medtronic
2. Medtronic — company history pagehttps://www.medtronic.com/en-us/our-company/history.html

Updated: 2026-05-04

Defunct

—unknownUpdated: 2026-05-04

Spinout of

—unknownUpdated: 2026-05-04

HQ city

DublinverifiedSource

1. Wikipedia — Medtronichttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Medtronic

Updated: 2026-05-04

HQ country

IEverifiedSource

1. Wikipedia — Medtronichttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Medtronic

Updated: 2026-05-04

Employees

—unknownSource

1. widely reported as ~95,000 but exact value not on a single primary source I have

Updated: 2026-05-04

Flagship device

medtronic-percept-pcverifiedSource

1. Medtronic — official sitehttps://www.medtronic.com

Updated: 2026-05-04

Product lines

—unknownUpdated: 2026-05-04

In-house manufacturing

YesverifiedSource

1. FDA PMA P960009 — Medtronic Activa / Percept lineagehttps://www.accessdata.fda.gov/scripts/cdrh/cfdocs/cfpma/pma.cfm?id=P960009

Updated: 2026-05-04

Open source

NoverifiedSource

1. Medtronic — official sitehttps://www.medtronic.com

Updated: 2026-05-04

GitHub org

—unknownUpdated: 2026-05-04

Website

medtronic.comverifiedSource

1. Medtronic — official sitehttps://www.medtronic.com

Updated: 2026-05-04

Blog

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Support

—unknownUpdated: 2026-05-04

Devices

• invasiveDBS

  Activa PC

  medtronic

  ——
• invasiveDBS

  Activa RC

  medtronic

  ——
• invasiveDBS

  Activa SC

  medtronic

  ——
• invasiveDBS

  Percept PC Neurostimulator

  medtronic

  8 channels—
• invasiveDBS

  Percept RC

  medtronic

  ——
• invasiveDBS

  Summit RC+S

  medtronic

  16 channelsUSD 0

People

MilestonesverifiedSources (3)

1. Wikipedia — Medtronichttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Medtronic
2. FDA PMA P960009 — Medtronic Activa / Percept lineagehttps://www.accessdata.fda.gov/scripts/cdrh/cfdocs/cfpma/pma.cfm?id=P960009
3. Medtronic — company history pagehttps://www.medtronic.com/en-us/our-company/history.html

Updated: 2026-05-04

1. 1949-04-29

   Medtronic founded in Minneapolis

2. 1997-07-31

   FDA approval of Activa Tremor Control (P960009) — first DBS for essential tremor

3. 2015-01-26

   Acquisition of Covidien closes; redomiciled to Ireland

4. 2020-06-24

   FDA approval of Percept PC with BrainSense LFP sensing

Reputation

Industry-defining incumbent in DBS. Activa was the first commercially successful DBS system globally; Percept PC (2020) was the first FDA-approved DBS with chronic LFP sensing.