8/17
Venture catheter assets Vascular Solutions Inc. Vascular Solutions acquired the Venture wire control
Maple Grove catheter assets from Little Canada-based St. Jude Medical Inc. for $3 million.
8/22
Simulation Works Inc. Itasca International Inc. Itasca Consulting Group Inc., a subsidiary of Itasca
St. Paul Minneapolis International, acquired the designer of the the Kubrix1 software used to automate the more human-intensive and costly aspects of computer-aided engineering.