US Patent Issued to Medtronic on May 26 for "Leadless pacemaker system" (Minnesota, Colorado Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,636,504, issued on May 26, was assigned to Medtronic Inc. (Minneapolis).

"Leadless pacemaker system" was invented by Matthew D. Bonner (Plymouth, Minn.), Saul E. Greenhut (Denver), Todd J. Sheldon (North Oaks, Minn.) and Wade M. Demmer (Coon Rapids, Minn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A device includes a signal generator module, a processing module, and a housing. The signal generator module is configured to deliver pacing pulses to an atrium. The processing module is configured to detect a ventricular activation event and determine a length of an interval between the ventricular activation event and a previous atrial event that preceded...