ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,685,868, issued on July 21, was assigned to BIOTRONIK SE & Co. KG (Berlin).

"Implantable medical device configured to provide an intra-cardiac function" was invented by Madeline Anne Midgett (Portland, Ore.), Daniel Young (Portland, Ore.), Christopher Jones (Oregon City, Ore.) and R. Hollis Whittington (Portland, Ore.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An implantable medical device configured to provide for an intracardiac function, the implantable medical device comprises a body, a sensor arrangement arranged on the body and configured to receive cardiac sense signals, and a processing circuitry operatively connected to the sensor arrangeme...