ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,635,929, issued on May 26, was assigned to TEXAS INSTRUMENTS Inc. (Dallas).

"Pace pulse detection in cardiac signals" was invented by Nithin Jose (Bangalore, India), Anand Hariraj Udupa (Bangalore, India), Sachin Aithal (Bangalore, India), Raja Reddy Patukuri (Bengaluru, India) and Ashin Antony (Kochi, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems, apparatus, articles of manufacture, and methods are disclosed to detect a pace pulse in an electrocardiogram (ECG) signal. An example apparatus includes programmable circuitry configured to execute instructions to: identify a leading edge of a pulse in an input signal based on an amplitude chang...