ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 27 -- United States Patent no. 12,773,560, issued on Oct. 27, was assigned to Medtronic Inc. (Minneapolis).

"Medical device and method for tachyarrythmia detection" was invented by Xusheng Zhang (Shoreview, Minn.), Kevin L. Dehmer (Rogers, Minn.), Saul E. Greenhut (Denver), Troy E. Jackson (Rogers, Minn.) and Yuanzhen Liu (Palo Alto, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A medical device is configured to determine time intervals between consecutive cardiac events sensed from a cardiac electrical signal, increase a value of a tachyarrhythmia interval count in response to each of the determine time intervals detected as a tachyarrhythmia interval. The device is further con...