ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,447,347, issued on Oct. 21, was assigned to BIOTRONIK SE & Co. KG (Berlin).
"Hypertension therapy" was invented by Thomas Doerr (Berlin), Ingo Weiss (Berlin) and Ulrich Busch (Berlin).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An implantable device for stimulating a heart to lower blood pressure, comprising: a stimulation unit configured to stimulate a ventricle, and a sensing unit for detecting atrial activity of the heart, wherein the stimulation unit is configured to stimulate the ventricle for at least one cardiac cycle with a predefined delay after detection of an atrial activity or to not stimulate the ventricle for at least one cardiac cycle."...