US Patent Issued to Medtronic on June 3 for "Premature ventricular contraction (PVC) detection" (Minnesota, New York Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 4 -- United States Patent no. 12,318,210, issued on June 3, was assigned to Medtronic Inc. (Minneapolis).

"Premature ventricular contraction (PVC) detection" was invented by Gautham Rajagopal (Minneapolis), Michael L. Hudziak (Stillwater, Minn.), Shantanu Sarkar (Roseville, Minn.), Gary Toering (Oak Grove, Minn.), Jerry D. Reiland (Coon Rapids, Minn.), Yuying Chao (Vadnais Heights, Minn.) and Stephanie Chen (Oakland Gardens, N.Y.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques for determining whether a ventricular depolarization is a premature ventricular contraction (PVC) depolarization may include processing circuitry of a medical system identifying an interval from a maximu...