US Patent Issued to Medtronic on Jan. 20 for "Multi-tier prediction of cardiac tachyarrhythmia" (Minnesota, Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,527,966, issued on Jan. 20, was assigned to Medtronic Inc. (Minneapolis).

"Multi-tier prediction of cardiac tachyarrhythmia" was invented by Tarek D. Haddad (Minneapolis), Athula I. Abeyratne (Maplewood, Minn.), Mark L. Brown (North Oaks, Minn.), Donald R. Musgrove (Minneapolis), Andrew Radtke (Minneapolis) and Mugdha V. Tasgaonkar (Liberty Hill, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques are disclosed for a multi-tier system for predicting cardiac arrhythmia in a patient. In one example, a computing device processes parametric patient data and provider data for a patient to generate a long-term probability that a cardiac arrhythmia...