US Patent Issued to Max-Planck-Gesellschaft zur Forderung der Wissenschaften on Oct. 6 for "Apparatus for terminating cardiac arrhythmias by deceleration pacing" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,752,120, issued on Oct. 6, was assigned to Max-Planck-Gesellschaft zur Forderung der Wissenschaften e.V. (Berlin).

"Apparatus for terminating cardiac arrhythmias by deceleration pacing" was invented by Stefan Luther (Gottingen, Germany), Ulrich Parlitz (Gleichen, Germany) and Thomas Lilienkamp (Nuremberg, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An apparatus for determining an arrhythmia of a living heart comprises a signal evaluation device receiving a signal representing a present electric activity of the heart, and determining a frequency spectrum of the signal. The apparatus further comprises a pulse generator generating a sequence of e...