US Patent Issued to Medtronic on July 29 for "Propagation patterns method and related systems and devices" (Dutch, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,369,836, issued on July 29, was assigned to Medtronic Inc. (Minneapolis).

"Propagation patterns method and related systems and devices" was invented by Alfonso Aranda Hernandez (Maastricht, Netherlands), Subham Ghosh (Blaine, Minn.) and Joshua J. Blauer (White Bear Lake Township, Minn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods and related systems and devices for cardiac therapy use pseudo-electric vectors (PEVs) for characterizing and representing the electrical forces generated by a patient's heart in a three-dimensional (3D) manner. PEVs may be used to predict whether a patient will respond to pacing therapy prior to implant, during impla...