US Patent Issued to Medtronic on Jan. 13 for "Medical device and method for enabling a cardiac monitoring feature" (Minnesota, Colorado Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 13 -- United States Patent no. 12,521,560, issued on Jan. 13, was assigned to Medtronic Inc. (Minneapolis).

"Medical device and method for enabling a cardiac monitoring feature" was invented by Michelle M. Galarneau (Minneapolis), Saul E. Greenhut (Denver), Yanina Grinberg (Plymouth, Minn.) and Todd J. Sheldon (North Oaks, Minn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A medical device is configured to sense a cardiac signal, determine a monitoring metric representative of activity of at least one heart chamber from the sensed cardiac signal, and determine that the monitoring metric meets expected rhythm criteria. The medical device may enable a monitoring feature of the medical d...