ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,383,203, issued on Aug. 12, was assigned to Medtronic Inc. (Minneapolis).

"Medical device and method for detecting electrical signal noise" was invented by Saul E. Greenhut (Denver), Yuanzhen Liu (Palo Alto, Calif.) and Xusheng Zhang (Shoreview, Minn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A medical device is configured to sense event signals from a cardiac electrical signal and determine maximum amplitudes of cardiac electrical signal segments associated with sensed event signals. The medical device is configured to determine at least one tachyarrhythmia metric based on at least a greatest one of the determined maximum amplitudes. The medical d...