US Patent Issued to Pacesetter on Feb. 17 for "Methods and systems for posture dependent implantable cardioverter defibrillator therapy" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,551,708, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to Pacesetter Inc. (Sylmar, Calif.).

"Methods and systems for posture dependent implantable cardioverter defibrillator therapy" was invented by Jong Gill (Valencia, Calif.) and Kyungmoo Ryu (Los Angeles).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An implantable medical device and computer implemented methods comprise a sensing circuit configured to sense cardiac activity (CA) signals. An accelerometer is configured to be implanted in a patient and obtain accelerometer data along at least one axis. A memory is configured to store program instructions and device parameters associated with each ventricular arrhyt...