ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,702,344, issued on Aug. 11, was assigned to Medtronic Inc. (Minneapolis).

"Cardiac signal QT interval detection" was invented by Gautham Rajagopal (Minneapolis) and Shantanu Sarkar (Roseville, Minn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An example device for detecting one or more parameters of a cardiac signal is disclosed herein. The device includes one or more electrodes and sensing circuitry configured to sense a cardiac signal via the one or more electrodes. The device further includes processing circuitry configured to determine an R-wave of the cardiac signal and determine whether the R-wave is noisy. Based on the R-wave being noisy, the ...