US Patent Issued to Medtronic on March 17 for "Determining health condition statuses using subcutaneous impedance measurements" (Minnesota Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,575,755, issued on March 17, was assigned to Medtronic Inc. (Minneapolis).

"Determining health 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.), Eduardo N. Warman (Maple Grove, Minn.), Matthew T Reinke (Roseville, Minn.) and Ekaterina M. Ippolito (Shoreview, 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 subcu...