US Patent Issued to Cardiac Pacemakers on July 28 for "Ambulatory detection of QT prolongation" (Minnesota Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,690,797, issued on July 28, was assigned to Cardiac Pacemakers Inc. (St. Paul, Minn.).

"Ambulatory detection of QT prolongation" was invented by Deepa Mahajan (North Oaks, Minn.), David L. Perschbacher (Blaine, Minn.) and Sunipa Saha (Shoreview, Minn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for ambulatory detection of Q wave-to-T wave (QT) interval prolongation are discussed. A medical-device system comprises a controller circuit and a user interface device. The controller circuit includes a long QT syndrome (LQTS) detector that measures a QT interval from a subcutaneous cardiac signal sensed from a patient using implantable e...