US Patent Issued to North American EP Technology on June 16 for "Systems, devices, and methods for improving patient outcomes in implantable cardioverter defibrillators" (Minnesota Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,654,018, issued on June 16, was assigned to North American EP Technology LLC (Edina, Minn.).

"Systems, devices, and methods for improving patient outcomes in implantable cardioverter defibrillators" was invented by Yanhui Li (Edina, Minn.) and Robert Joseph Gaskill (Edina, Minn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for improving treatment decisions of an implantable cardioverter defibrillator (ICD) implanted in a patient. The method includes determining an electrical status of a heart of the patient based on a first signal received from an electrical sensor of an ICD lead that is implanted in an anterior mediastinum of the patient. Th...