US Patent Issued to Medtronic on Oct. 27 for "Medical device and method for determining atrioventricular synchrony" (Minnesota Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 27 -- United States Patent no. 12,773,562, issued on Oct. 27, was assigned to Medtronic Inc. (Minneapolis).

"Medical device and method for determining atrioventricular synchrony" was invented by Vincent P. Ganion (Blaine, Minn.), Yanina Grinberg (Plymouth, Minn.) and Paul R. Solheim (Blaine, Minn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A medical device is configured to sense a cardiac signal that includes far field ventricular event signals and determine a ventricular activity metric from the sensed cardiac signal. The ventricular activity metric may be representative of a ventricular rate or an atrioventricular time interval. The medical device is configured to determine an atr...