US Patent Issued to Medtronic on Aug. 4 for "Implantable medical device and method for determining his bundle pacing capture" (Minnesota, North Carolina Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,697,493, issued on Aug. 4, was assigned to Medtronic Inc. (Minneapolis).

"Implantable medical device and method for determining his bundle pacing capture" was invented by Todd J. Sheldon (North Oaks, Minn.), Elizabeth A. Mattson (Eagan, Minn.), Eric R. Williams (Maple Grove, Minn.), Zhongping Yang (Woodbury, Minn.) and Shawn M. Campbell (Davidson, N.C.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An implantable medical device system receives a cardiac electrical signal produced by a patient's heart and comprising atrial P-waves and delivers a His bundle pacing pulse to the patient's heart via a His pacing electrode vector. The system determines a timin...