ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,727,808, issued on Sept. 8, was assigned to Pacesetter Inc. (Sylmar, Calif.).

"Method and system to manage adaptive sensing" was invented by Jan O. Mangual-Soto (Rho, Italy), Nima Badie (Berkeley, Calif.), Wenwen Li (San Jose, Calif.) and Fady Dawoud (Studio City, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Computer implemented methods and implantable medical devices (IMD) are provided that obtain cardiac activity (CA) signals for a cardiac beat and compare the CA signals to a sensitivity level to detect a sensed event. One or more processors are configured to change the sensitivity level, utilized by the sensing circuitry, over the cardiac be...