US Patent Issued to Medtronic on July 22 for "Triggering arrhythmia episodes for heart failure and chronotropic incompetence diagnosis and monitoring" (Singaporean, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,364,428, issued on July 22, was assigned to Medtronic Inc. (Minneapolis).

"Triggering arrhythmia episodes for heart failure and chronotropic incompetence diagnosis and monitoring" was invented by Niranjan Chakravarthy (Singapore) and Rodolphe Katra (Blaine, Minn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques are disclosed for detecting arrhythmia episodes for a patient. A medical device may receive one or more sensor values indicative of motion of a patient. The medical device may determine, based at least in part on the one or more sensor values, an activity level of the patient. The medical device may determine a heart rate threshold for t...