US Patent Issued to BackBeat Medical on Oct. 14 for "Methods and apparatus to increase secretion of endogenous naturetic hormones" (New York, New Jersey Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,440,653, issued on Oct. 14, was assigned to BackBeat Medical LLC (New Hope, Pa.).

"Methods and apparatus to increase secretion of endogenous naturetic hormones" was invented by Howard Levin (Teaneck, N.J.) and Mark Gelfand (New York).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method and apparatus for treatment of heart failure by increasing secretion of endogenous naturetic hormones ANP and BNP such as by stimulation of the heart atria. Heart pacing is done at an atrial contraction rate that is increased and can be higher than the ventricular contraction rate. Pacing may include mechanical distension of the right atrial appendage. An implantable de...