US Patent Issued to Medtronic on Sept. 29 for "Atrial tracking confirmation in an intracardiac ventricular pacemaker" (Minnesota Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,746,394, issued on Sept. 29, was assigned to Medtronic Inc. (Minneapolis).

"Atrial tracking confirmation in an intracardiac ventricular pacemaker" was invented by Todd J. Sheldon (North Oaks, Minn.), Wade M. Demmer (Coon Rapids, Minn.) and Greggory R. Herr (Blaine, Minn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A pacemaker having a motion sensor delivers atrial-synchronized ventricular pacing by detecting events from a signal produced by the motion sensor and delivering ventricular pacing pulses at a rate that tracks the rate of the detected events. The pacemaker is configured to confirm atrial tracking of the ventricular pacing pulses by determi...