US Patent Issued to Medtronic on March 31 for "Medical device and method for cardiac pacing of the his-purkinje conduction system" (California, Minnesota Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,589,249, issued on March 31, was assigned to Medtronic Inc. (Minneapolis).

"Medical device and method for cardiac pacing of the his-purkinje conduction system" was invented by Jian Cao (San Jose, Calif.) and Xiaohong Zhou (Woodbury, Minn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A medical device is configured to deliver His-Purkinje pacing pulses according to multiple settings of a pacing control parameter and determine an electromechanical time delay from a ventricular electrical event to a fiducial point of the pressure signal for each of the pacing control parameter settings. The medical device may be configured to select an operating pacing c...