ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,397,163, issued on Aug. 26, was assigned to Medtronic Inc. (Minneapolis).
"His-Purkinje system capture detection" was invented by Jian Cao (Shoreview, Minn.), Wade M. Demmer (Coon Rapids, Minn.), Maureen E. Lybarger (New Brighton, Minn.), Elizabeth A Mattson (Eagan, Minn.), Todd J. Sheldon (North Oaks, Minn.), Zhongping Yang (Woodbury, Minn.) and Xiaohong Zhou (Woodbury, Minn.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A medical device is configured to sense a cardiac electrical signal and determine from the cardiac electrical signal at least one of a maximum peak amplitude of a positive slope of the cardiac electrical signal and a maximum peak time...