US Patent Issued to Medtronic on July 28 for "Medical device and method for detecting arrhythmia" (Minnesota, Colorado Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,690,798, issued on July 28, was assigned to Medtronic Inc. (Minneapolis).

"Medical device and method for detecting arrhythmia" was invented by Alfonso Aranda Hernandez (Minneapolis), Timothy A. Ebeling (Circle Pines, Minn.), Saul E. Greenhut (Denver), Troy E. Jackson (Rogers, Minn.), Yuanzhen Liu (Minneapolis), Irving J. Sanchez (Blaine, Minn.), James A. Vander Heyden (Delano, Minn.) and Xusheng Zhang (Shoreview, Minn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A medical device is configured to determine an amplitude metric from a cardiac signal segment sensed over a predetermined time interval and determine if the amplitude metric meets an amplitud...