US Patent Issued to Medtronic on June 10 for "Implantable medical device with pacing capture classification" (Minnesota Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,324,920, issued on June 10, was assigned to Medtronic Inc. (Minneapolis).

"Implantable medical device with pacing capture classification" was invented by Jian Cao (Shoreview, Minn.), Elizabeth A. Mattson (Eagan, Minn.), Todd J. Sheldon (North Oaks, Minn.), Xiaohong Zhou (Woodbury, Minn.) and Wade M. Demmer (Coon Rapids, Minn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This disclosure is directed to devices and techniques for classifying of pacing captures to evaluate effectiveness of pacing by a pacing device, such as an implantable medical device (IMD). An example system includes stimulation circuitry to generate a pacing stimulus, sensing circuitr...