US Patent Issued to BackBeat Medical on March 11 for "Methods and systems for controlling blood pressure by controlling atrial pressure" (Florida, Minnesota, New Jersey, New York Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,246,180, issued on March 11, was assigned to BackBeat Medical LLC (New Hope, Pa.).

"Methods and systems for controlling blood pressure by controlling atrial pressure" was invented by Yuval Mika (Closter, N.J.), Darren Sherman (Fort Lauderdale, Fla.), Robert S. Schwartz (Inver Grove Heights, Minn.), Robert A Van Tassel (Excelsior, Minn.) and Daniel Burkhoff (Manhattan, N.Y.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for controlling blood pressure by controlling atrial pressure and atrial stretch are disclosed. In some embodiments, a stimulation circuit may be configured to deliver a stimulation pulse to at least one cardiac chamb...