US Patent Issued to Cardiac Pacemakers on July 29 for "Systems and methods for predicting atrial arrhythmia" (Minnesota Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,369,838, issued on July 29, was assigned to Cardiac Pacemakers Inc. (St. Paul, Minn.).

"Systems and methods for predicting atrial arrhythmia" was invented by Pramodsingh Hirasingh Thakur (Woodbury, Minn.), Rezwan Ahmed (Arden Hills, Minn.) and Stephen B. Ruble (Lino Lakes, Minn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for assessing a cardiac arrhythmia risk of a patient, such as a risk for developing atrial fibrillation, are disclosed. An exemplary medical-device system includes a risk stratifier circuit configured to, in an absence of prior and present atrial arrhythmia, determine a composite risk of the patient developing a ...