US Patent Issued to Pacesetter on June 16 for "Respiratory gated shock delivery by subcutaneous-implantable medical device" (California, Minnesota Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,654,022, issued on June 16, was assigned to Pacesetter Inc. (Sylmar, Calif.).

"Respiratory gated shock delivery by subcutaneous-implantable medical device" was invented by Stuart Rosenberg (Woodbury, Minn.), Gene A. Bornzin (Simi Valley, Calif.), Wenwen Li (Stevenson Ranch, Calif.) and Xiaoyi Min (Sylmar, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method and system for managing delivery of a respiration gated defibrillation shock from a subcutaneous implantable medical device (S-IMD) having one or more extra vascular electrodes. The method and system sense cardiac events of a heart. Additionally, the method and system utilize one or more pr...