ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,714,321, issued on Aug. 25, was assigned to Medtronic Inc. (Minneapolis).
"Method and apparatus for determining heart rate" was invented by Vincent E. Splett (Apple Valley, Minn.) and Todd J. Sheldon (North Oaks, Minn.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A medical device having a motion sensor is configured to sense a motion signal, generate ventricular pacing pulses in a non-atrial tracking ventricular pacing mode and detect atrial event signals from the motion signal during the non-atrial tracking ventricular pacing mode. The medical device may be configured to determine atrial event intervals from the detected atrial event signals, determi...