ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,702,843, issued on Aug. 11, was assigned to Cardiac Pacemakers Inc. (St. Paul, Minn.).

"His-bundle or bundle branch pacing capture verification" was invented by David Arthur Casavant (Reading, Mass.), Deepa Mahajan (North Oaks, Minn.) and David L. Perschbacher (Blaine, Minn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for pacing cardiac conductive tissue are described. In an embodiment, a medical system includes an electrostimulation circuit to generate pacing pulses to stimulate a His bundle or a bunch branch. A sensing circuit senses a far-field ventricular activation, determines a cardiac synchrony indicator using the far-field...