US Patent Issued to Medtronic on Aug. 12 for "Method and apparatus for discriminating tachycardia events in a medical device" (Minnesota Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,383,752, issued on Aug. 12, was assigned to Medtronic Inc. (Minneapolis).

"Method and apparatus for discriminating tachycardia events in a medical device" was invented by Xusheng Zhang (Shoreview, Minn.) and Robert W. Stadler (Shoreview, Minn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method and medical device for detecting a cardiac event that includes sensing cardiac signals from a plurality of electrodes, the plurality of electrodes forming a first sensing vector and a second sensing vector, identifying the cardiac event as one of a shockable event and a non-shockable event in response to first processing of a first interval sensed along the f...