ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,507,939, issued on Dec. 30, was assigned to Medtronic Inc. (Minneapolis).

"Arrhythmia detection with feature delineation and machine learning" was invented by Niranjan Chakravarthy (Singapore), Siddharth Dani (Minneapolis), Tarek D. Haddad (Minneapolis), Donald R. Musgrove (Minneapolis), Andrew Radtke (Minneapolis), Eduardo N. Warman (Maple Grove, Minn.), Rodolphe Katra (Blaine, Minn.) and Lindsay A. Pedalty (Minneapolis).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques are disclosed for using both feature delineation and machine learning to detect cardiac arrhythmia. A computing device receives cardiac electrogram data of a patient sensed by a ...