ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,766,326, issued on Oct. 20, was assigned to BaroPace Inc. (Ashland, Ore.).

"Systems and methods for state machine selection for pacing" was invented by Michael Burnam (Ashland, Ore.), Eli Gang (Los Angeles) and Srikanth Jadcherla (Frisco, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed are methods, systems, and computer-readable medium for outputting a state machine to determine a next state for a pacemaker, including receiving a plurality of sate machines, each state machine including an algorithm to generate the next state for the pacemaker; receiving a blood pressure value sensed by a blood pressure sensor; receiving a user state; inpu...