ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,343,156, issued on July 1, was assigned to Medtronic Inc. (Minneapolis).
"Atrial arrhythmia episode detection in a cardiac medical device" was invented by Elise J. Higgins (St. Paul, Minn.), Mark L. Brown (North Oaks, Minn.) and Jian Cao (Shoreview, Minn.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A medical device is configured to detect an atrial tachyarrhythmia episode. The device senses a cardiac signal, identifies R-waves in the cardiac signal attendant ventricular depolarizations and determines classification factors from the R-waves identified over a predetermined time period. The device classifies the predetermined time period as one of unclas...