US Patent Issued to Medtronic on June 2 for "Dynamic patient-specific filtering of an activity signal within a beating heart" (Minnesota Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,642,974, issued on June 2, was assigned to Medtronic Inc. (Minneapolis).

"Dynamic patient-specific filtering of an activity signal within a beating heart" was invented by Todd J. Sheldon (North Oaks, Minn.), Wade M. Demmer (Coon Rapids, Minn.), Karen J. Kleckner (Blaine, Minn.), Douglas A. Peterson (Apple Valley, Minn.) and Paul R. Solheim (Blaine, Minn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An implantable medical device includes an activity sensor, a pulse generator, and a control module. The control module is configured to determine activity metrics from the activity signal and determine an activity metric value at a predetermined percentile o...