US Patent Issued to Medtronic on July 29 for "Triggering storage of electrocardiographs for detected premature ventricular contractions (PVCs)" (Minnesota Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,369,834, issued on July 29, was assigned to Medtronic Inc. (Minneapolis).

"Triggering storage of electrocardiographs for detected premature ventricular contractions (PVCs)" was invented by John E. Burnes (Blaine, Minn.), Shantanu Sarkar (Roseville, Minn.) and Gautham Rajagopal (Minneapolis).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques for triggering the storage or transmission of cardiac electrogram (EGM) signals associated with a premature ventricular contractions (PVC) include sensing a cardiac EGM signal of a patient via a plurality of electrodes, detecting a premature ventricular contraction (PVC) within the cardiac EGM signal, determini...