ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,685,475, issued on July 21, was assigned to Pacesetter Inc. (Sylmar, Calif.).

"Methods, devices and systems for distinguishing over-sensed R-R intervals from true R-R intervals" was invented by Nima Badie (Berkeley, Calif.), Fujian Qu (San Jose, Calif.) and Jong Gill (Valencia, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Described herein are methods, devices, and systems that monitor heart rate and/or for arrhythmic episodes based on sensed intervals that can include true R-R intervals as well as over-sensed R-R intervals. True R-R intervals are initially identified from an ordered list of the sensed intervals by comparing individual sensed in...