US Patent Issued to Cardiac Pacemakers on Feb. 3 for "His-bundle pacing for atrioventricular block" (Massachusetts, Minnesota Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,539,423, issued on Feb. 3, was assigned to Cardiac Pacemakers Inc. (St. Paul, Minn.).

"His-bundle pacing for atrioventricular block" was invented by Allan Charles Shuros (St. Paul, Minn.) and David Arthur Casavant (Reading, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for dynamically controlling His-bundle pacing (HBP) according to an indication of a rate-related or intermittent atrioventricular (AV) block in a subject are disclosed. An exemplary medical system includes an AV conduction monitor to detect an indication of either a presence or an absence of intermittent or rate-related AV conduction disturbance using physiologic...