ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,682,260, issued on July 14, was assigned to Medtronic Inc. (Minneapolis).

"Adjudication algorithm bypass conditions" was invented by Ya-Jian Cheng (Lino Lakes, Minn.), Sean R. Landman (Minneapolis), Bruce D. Gunderson (Plymouth, Minn.), Paul D. Ziegler (Cable, Wis.), Shantanu Sarkar (Roseville, Minn.), Kevin T. Ousdigian (Shoreview, Minn.), Gautham Rajagopal (Minneapolis) and Ekaterina M. Ippolito (Shoreview, Minn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This disclosure describes techniques for bypassing an algorithm configured to determine a likelihood of episode data being a false indication of a cardiac episode. A medical device system include...