US Patent Issued to Medtronic on Feb. 10 for "Intracardiac electrogram-based differentiation of conduction system and myocardial pacing" (Minnesota Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,544,577, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to Medtronic Inc. (Minneapolis).

"Intracardiac electrogram-based differentiation of conduction system and myocardial pacing" was invented by Xiaohong Zhou (Woodbury, Minn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In some examples, a method comprises sensing one or more left-ventricular activations via one or more electrodes of a left-ventricular lead, wherein each of the one or more left-ventricular activations are in response to delivery of an electrical stimulation to a heart of a patient; determining one or more left-ventricular activation metrics based on the sensed one or more left-ventricular activati...