US Patent Issued to Pacesetter on Nov. 3 for "Methods, systems and devices for utilizing multiple AF discriminators" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,778,429, issued on Nov. 3, was assigned to Pacesetter Inc. (Sylmar, Calif.).

"Methods, systems and devices for utilizing multiple AF discriminators" was invented by Fujian Qu (San Jose, Calif.), Nima Badie (Oakland, Calif.) and Jong Gill (Valencia, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embodiments disclosed herein use multiple AF discriminators to determine whether to classify an AF detection as a false positive. One method includes detecting R-waves within an EGM or ECG signal, determining R-R intervals based on the R-waves, detecting AF based on the R-R intervals, and using one or more time-based AF discriminators to analyze one or more...