US Patent Issued to Medtronic on March 18 for "Pacing mode switching and rate response limit in a ventricular pacemaker" (Minnesota Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,251,567, issued on March 18, was assigned to Medtronic Inc. (Minneapolis).

"Pacing mode switching and rate response limit in a ventricular pacemaker" was invented by Wade M. Demmer (Coon Rapids, Minn.), Juliana E. Pronovici (New Hope, Minn.) and Todd J. Sheldon (North Oaks, Minn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An intracardiac ventricular pacemaker having a motion sensor, a pulse generator and a control circuit coupled to the pulse generator and the motion sensor is configured to identify a ventricular systolic event, detect a ventricular passive filling event signal from the motion signal, and determine a time interval from the ventricu...