ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,706,216, issued on Aug. 11, was assigned to Cardiac Pacemakers Inc. (St. Paul, Minn.).
"Phenotype-specific heart failure diagnosis and management" was invented by Jonathan Bennett Shute (Eagan, Minn.), Bin Mi (Arden Hills, Minn.) and Pramodsingh Hirasingh Thakur (Woodbury, Minn.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for monitoring heart failure status in a patient are discussed. A medical-device system receives physiological and clinical information of the patient, and classifies the patient into one of a plurality of phenotypes using the received information. The plurality of phenotypes each can be characterized by a cluste...