US Patent Issued to Medtronic on March 31 for "Method and apparatus for detecting cardiac event oversensing" (Illinois, Colorado, California, Minnesota Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,589,248, issued on March 31, was assigned to Medtronic Inc. (Minneapolis).

"Method and apparatus for detecting cardiac event oversensing" was invented by Gavin M. Mischler (Wilmette, Ill.), Yuanzhen Liu (Fremont, Calif.), Saul E. Greenhut (Denver) and Xusheng Zhang (Shoreview, Minn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A medical device is configured to detect an alternating pattern of signal features determined from consecutive segments of a cardiac electrical signal and determine a gross morphology metric from at least one segment of the cardiac electrical signal. The device is configured to detect cardiac event oversensing in response to de...