US Patent Issued to Medtronic on April 15 for "System and method for sensing and detection in an extra-cardiovascular implantable cardioverter defibrillator" (Minnesota, Colorado Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,274,889, issued on April 15, was assigned to Medtronic Inc. (Minneapolis).

"System and method for sensing and detection in an extra-cardiovascular implantable cardioverter defibrillator" was invented by Xusheng Zhang (Shoreview, Minn.), Jian Cao (Shoreview, Minn.), Saul E. Greenhut (Denver) and Robert W. Stadler (Shoreview, Minn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An extra-cardiovascular implantable cardioverter defibrillator senses R-waves from a first cardiac electrical signal by a first sensing channel and stores a time segment of a second cardiac electrical signal in response to each sensed R-wave. The ICD determines intervals between suc...