US Patent Issued to Medtronic on Oct. 27 for "Extra-cardiovascular cardiac pacing system" (Minnesota Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 27 -- United States Patent no. 12,773,561, issued on Oct. 27, was assigned to Medtronic Inc. (Minneapolis).

"Extra-cardiovascular cardiac pacing system" was invented by Amy E. Thompson-Nauman (Ham Lake, Minn.), Melissa G.T. Christie (Ham Lake, Minn.), Mark T. Marshall (Forest Lake, Minn.) and Thomas H. Spear (Bloomington, Minn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An extra-cardiovascular medical device is configured to select a capacitor configuration from a capacitor array and deliver a low voltage, pacing pulse by discharging the selected capacitor configuration across an extra-cardiovascular pacing electrode vector. In some examples, the medical device is configured to dete...