US Patent Issued to Medtronic on July 29 for "Rate smoothing in atrial synchronous ventricular pacemaker" (Minnesota, Illinois Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,370,371, issued on July 29, was assigned to Medtronic Inc. (Minneapolis).

"Rate smoothing in atrial synchronous ventricular pacemaker" was invented by Todd J. Sheldon (North Oaks, Minn.), Keelia M. Escalante (Minneapolis), Yanina Grinberg (Plymouth, Minn.) and Aaron M. Saikin (Round Lake, Ill.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A medical device is configured to determine a rate smoothing pacing interval based on at a ventricular cycle length ending with a ventricular pacing pulse and determine a post-sense ventricular pacing interval based on a ventricular cycle length ending with a sensed ventricular event signal. The medical device may be ...