ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,543,993, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to Medtronic Inc. (Minneapolis).

"Medical device and method for detecting tachy arrhythmia" was invented by Yuanzhen Liu (Minneapolis), Alfonso Aranda Hernandez (Maastricht, Netherlands), Timothy A. Ebeling (Circle Pines, Minn.), Saul E. Greenhut (Denver), Michael W. Heinks (New Brighton, Minn.), Jean E. Hudson (Blaine, Minn.), Troy E. Jackson (Rogers, Minn.), Irving J. Sanchez (Blaine, Minn.), James A. Vander Heyden (Delano, Minn.) and Xusheng Zhang (Shoreview, Minn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A medical device is configured to sense first ventricular event signals from a first cardiac electri...