ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,733,876, issued on Sept. 15, was assigned to Pacesetter Inc. (Sylmar, Calif.).

"Efficiently storing data for wide dynamic range and high resolution biological signals" was invented by Dean Andersen (San Jose, Calif.), Xing Pei (Thousand Oaks, Calif.), David Doudna (Sunnyvale, Calif.) and Reza Shahandeh (Tarzana, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Described herein are methods, devices and systems for efficiently storing data for sensed biological signals. A sensed biological signal, or an amplitude and/or filtered version thereof, is provided to an N-bit ADC of an IMD to produce an N-bit data value indicative of an amplitude of the bi...