US Patent Issued to Medtronic on June 9 for "Modulate pacing rate to increase the percentage of effective ventricular capture during atrial fibrillation" (Minnesota Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,649,064, issued on June 9, was assigned to Medtronic Inc. (Minneapolis).

"Modulate pacing rate to increase the percentage of effective ventricular capture during atrial fibrillation" was invented by Richard M. T. Lu (Medina, Minn.), Subham Ghosh (Blaine, Minn.) and Robert W. Stadler (Shoreview, Minn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure pertains to cardiac pacing methods and systems, and, more particularly, to cardiac resynchronization therapy (CRT). In particular, the present disclosure pertains to determining whether a patient is experiencing atrial fibrillation (AF). If the patient is experiencing AF, the efficacy of C...