ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,295,735, issued on May 13, was assigned to Cardiac Pacemakers Inc. (St. Paul, Minn.).

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

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for detecting cardiac arrhythmia are discussed. An exemplary arrhythmia detection system can receive physiologic information of the patient, measure a first signal metric using a first portion of the received physiologic information, and determine an arrhythmia detection duration using a comparison between the measured first signa...