ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,303,684, issued on May 20.
"Transcoronary sinus pacing of posteroseptal left ventricular base" was invented by Vincent A. Gaudiani (Portola Valley, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for cardiac pacing are provided, where a pacing lead is placed at or near the bundle of His. A method for pacing a heart of a patient comprises: introducing a sheath to vasculature of the patient; steering the sheath within a coronary sinus in the heart to lodge a distal end of the sheath to a target location proximal to the bundle of His above a septum separating a left ventricle and a right ventricle of the heart; advancing a pacing ...