US Patent Issued to Pacesetter on Oct. 27 for "Systems and methods for suppressing and treating atrial fibrillation and atrial tachycardia" (California Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 27 -- United States Patent no. 12,773,567, issued on Oct. 27, was assigned to Pacesetter Inc. (Sylmar, Calif.).

"Systems and methods for suppressing and treating atrial fibrillation and atrial tachycardia" was invented by Xing Pei (Thousand Oaks, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed herein are implantable medical devices and systems, and methods for used therewith, that selectively perform atrial pacing at an atrial pacing rate that is faster than an intrinsic atrial rate of a patient while the patient is experiencing an atrial tachycardia or atrial fibrillation and the intrinsic atrial rate of the patient is within the specified range, to attempt to convert t...