US Patent Issued to Medtronic Bakken Research Center on July 1 for "Indirect sensing mechanism for cardiac monitoring" (Dutch Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,343,542, issued on July 1, was assigned to Medtronic Bakken Research Center B.V. (Maastricht, Netherlands).

"Indirect sensing mechanism for cardiac monitoring" was invented by Philip Westphal (Maastricht, Netherlands) and Richard N. Cornelussen (Maastricht, Netherlands).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This disclosure is directed to systems and techniques for detecting change in patient health based upon patient data. In some examples, a medical system includes a mechanosensor configured to sense a first physiological parameter signal of a patient; and processing circuitry configured to: determine one or more features of the first physiologi...