US Patent Issued to Impulse Dynamics on Oct. 6 for "Increasing peak VO 2 in patients with HF using cardiac contractility modulation stimulation" (New Jersey, Florida Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,752,119, issued on Oct. 6, was assigned to Impulse Dynamics NV (Willemstad).

"Increasing peak VO 2 in patients with HF using cardiac contractility modulation stimulation" was invented by David Prutchi (Voorhees, N.J.), Simeon Ioannis Kedikoglou (Tallahassee, Fla.) and Angela Connolly Stagg (Allendale, N.J.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of increasing peak VO2 including selecting a patient having impaired peak VO2 and estimated to have a potential for improving peak VO2, and applying cardiac contractility modulation stimulation to the patient's heart. A method of increasing peak VO2 including detecting ventricle contraction using ...