US Patent Issued to Medtronic on March 3 for "Method and apparatus for atrial event detection" (Minnesota Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,564,720, issued on March 3, was assigned to Medtronic Inc. (Minneapolis).

"Method and apparatus for atrial event detection" was invented by Ronald A. Drake (St. Louis Park, Minn.), Melissa G.T. Christie (Ham Lake, Minn.), Kathryn Hilpisch (Cottage Grove, Minn.), Bushan K. Purushothaman (Plymouth, Minn.) and William Schindeldecker (Foreston, Minn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An intracardiac ventricular pacemaker includes a pulse generator for delivering ventricular pacing pulses, an impedance sensing circuit, and a control circuit in communication with the pulse generator and the impedance sensing circuit. The pacemaker is configured t...