US Patent Issued to Medtronic on Jan. 20 for "Ventricular sensing control in a cardiac pacing system" (Minnesota Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,527,961, issued on Jan. 20, was assigned to Medtronic Inc. (Minneapolis).

"Ventricular sensing control in a cardiac pacing system" was invented by Maureen E. Lybarger (New Brighton, Minn.), Jian Cao (Shoreview, Minn.), Wade M. Demmer (Coon Rapids, Minn.), Michael W. Heinks (New Brighton, Minn.), Jean E. Hudson (Blaine, Minn.), Michael Kemmerer (Victoria, Minn.), James J. St. Martin (Blaine, 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 set a post-atrial time interval in response to an atrial event and generate an event time signal in response to a ventricular electrical sig...