US Patent Issued to Impulse Dynamics on Feb. 24 for "Discrimination of supraventricular tachycardias in combined CCM-ICD device" (New Jersey Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,558,557, issued on Feb. 24, was assigned to Impulse Dynamics NV.

"Discrimination of supraventricular tachycardias in combined CCM-ICD device" was invented by David Prutchi (Voorhees, N.J.) and Jason Meyers (Haddonfield, N.J.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "During a cardiac arrhythmia, defibrillation shocks from an implanted cardiac defibrillator are suppressed based on the sensing of electrical wavefront arrival times which indicate a supraventricular origin to the cardiac arrhythmia. In some embodiments, times of electrical wavefront arrival in at least two ventricular locations of the heart are sensed; one location being relatively supe...