US Patent Issued to Pacesetter on June 30 for "Method and device for controlling cardiac resynchronization therapy based on heart sounds" (Italian Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,667,730, issued on June 30, was assigned to Pacesetter Inc. (Sylmar, Calif.).

"Method and device for controlling cardiac resynchronization therapy based on heart sounds" was invented by Jan O. Mangual-Soto (Rho, Italy).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for controlling an adaptive pacing therapy that includes utilizing one or more processors to perform measuring an atrial-ventricular (AV) interval corresponding to an interval between an atrial paced (Ap) event or an atrial sensed (As) event and a sensed ventricular (Vs) event, setting an AV delay based on the AV interval, and measuring an S1 heart sound characteristic of interest (CO...