US Patent Issued to Medtronic on Jan. 13 for "Adjustment of mechanical motion sensing for controlling cardiac pacing" (Minnesota, Massachusetts Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 13 -- United States Patent no. 12,521,558, issued on Jan. 13, was assigned to Medtronic Inc. (Minneapolis).

"Adjustment of mechanical motion sensing for controlling cardiac pacing" was invented by Juliana E. Pronovici (New Hope, Minn.), James W. Busacker (St. Anthony, Minn.), Tolulope M. Ayodele (New Hope, Minn.) and Yi Tong Kan (Allston, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques are disclosed for adjusting event detection parameters used for sensing mechanical motion data of a heart of a patient for use in cardiac pacing therapy. For example, processing circuitry receives, from a user, an input specifying one or more event detection parameters defining mechanical ...