US Patent Issued to Medtronic on July 21 for "Determining heart condition statuses using subcutaneous impedance measurements" (Minnesota Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,685,487, issued on July 21, was assigned to Medtronic Inc. (Minneapolis).

"Determining heart condition statuses using subcutaneous impedance measurements" was invented by Shantanu Sarkar (Roseville, Minn.), Todd M. Zielinski (Ham Lake, Minn.), Brian B. Lee (Golden Valley, Minn.), Val D. Eisele III (Little Canada, Minn.) and Eduardo N. Warman (Maple Grove, Minn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques for obtaining impedance data to provide an early warning for heart failure decompensation are described. An example device may be configured to measure subcutaneous impedance values, and increment an impedance score. In some examples, the ...