US Patent Issued to BIOTRONIK on Dec. 9 for "Implantable medical device with electrode dislocation recognition" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,491,369, issued on Dec. 9, was assigned to BIOTRONIK SE & Co. KG (Berlin).

"Implantable medical device with electrode dislocation recognition" was invented by Thomas Doerr (Berlin), Frank Becker (Berlin) and Christian Rehdorf (Berlin).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An implantable medical device for stimulating a heart, includes a stimulation electrode configured to stimulate a first cardiac region of the heart, and a detection unit configured to detect an intracardiac electrogram at a second cardiac region (ventricle) of the heart. In operation, the device: delivers a stimulation pulse to the heart; evaluates a time and at least one morpho...