US Patent Issued to Medtronic on Feb. 17 for "Leadless pacing system including sensing extension" (Minnesota Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,551,709, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to Medtronic Inc. (Minneapolis).

"Leadless pacing system including sensing extension" was invented by Thomas A. Anderson (New Hope, Minn.), Todd J. Sheldon (North Oaks, Minn.), Matthew D. Bonner (Plymouth, Minn.) and Noelle C. Neafus (St. Paul, Minn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A leadless pacing system includes a leadless pacing device and a sensing extension extending from a housing of the leadless pacing device. The sensing extension includes one or more electrodes with which the leadless pacing device may sense electrical cardiac activity. The one or more electrodes of the sensing extension ...