US Patent Issued to Cardiac Pacemakers on Oct. 14 for "Systems and methods for heart failure management" (Minnesota Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,440,682, issued on Oct. 14, was assigned to Cardiac Pacemakers Inc. (St. Paul, Minn.).

"Systems and methods for heart failure management" was invented by Pramodsingh Hirasingh Thakur (Woodbury, Minn.), Jason Humphrey (New Brighton, Minn.), David J. Ternes (Roseville, Minn.), Qi An (Shoreview, Minn.), Krzysztof Z. Siejko (Maple Grove, Minn.), Michael James Dufresne (Lino Lakes, Minn.) and Yinghong Yu (Shoreview, Minn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for managing heart failure are described. The system receives physiological information including a first HS signal corresponding to paced ventricular contractions and a sec...