US Patent Issued to Cardiac Pacemakers on July 15 for "Insertable cardiac monitoring device designed for the MRI environment" (Minnesota Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,357,220, issued on July 15, was assigned to Cardiac Pacemakers Inc. (St. Paul, Minn.).

"Insertable cardiac monitoring device designed for the MRI environment" was invented by Binh C. Tran (St. Paul, Minn.), Mitchell D. Lanz (Maple Grove, Minn.) and Scott R. Vanderlinde (Plymouth, Minn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An apparatus comprises a magnetic field detection circuit, a cardiac signal sensing circuit, a memory circuit, a control circuit, and an arrhythmia detection circuit. The cardiac signal sensing circuit generates a cardiac signal representative of cardiac activity of a subject when coupled to sensing electrodes. The control ci...