ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,213,792, issued on Feb. 4, was assigned to Cardiac Pacemakers Inc. (St. Paul, Minn.).

"Systems and methods for detecting and reporting arrhythmias" was invented by David L. Perschbacher (Blaine, Minn.), Sunipa Saha (Shoreview, Minn.) and Deepa Mahajan (North Oaks, Minn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for managing cardiac arrhythmias are discussed. A data management system receives a first detection algorithm including a detection criterion for detecting a cardiac arrhythmia. An arrhythmia detector detects arrhythmia episodes from a physiologic signal using a second detection algorithm that is different from and has a h...