US Patent Issued to Cardiac Pacemakers on Aug. 11 for "Heart sound based syncope detection" (Minnesota Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,702,360, issued on Aug. 11, was assigned to Cardiac Pacemakers Inc. (St. Paul, Minn.).

"Heart sound based syncope detection" was invented by Jonathan Bennett Shute (Eagan, Minn.), Pramodsingh Hirasingh Thakur (Woodbury, Minn.), Ashley Moriah Jensen (Apple Valley, Minn.) and Jeffrey E. Stahmann (Ramsey, Minn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods are disclosed to detect a potential syncope event using cardiac acceleration information of a patient and to transition a medical device from a first low-power mode to a second high-power mode in response to the detected potential syncope event."

The patent was filed on Jan. 18, 202...