ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,295,736, issued on May 13, was assigned to Medtronic Inc. (Minneapolis).

"Medical device and method for detecting electrical signal noise" was invented by Xusheng Zhang (Shoreview, Minn.), Saul E. Greenhut (Denver) and Yuanzhen Liu (Palo Alto, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A medical device is configured to sense an electrical signal and determine that signal to noise criteria are met based on electrical signal segments stored in response to sensed electrophysiological events. The medical device is configured to determine an increased gain signal segment from one of the stored electrical signal segments in response to determining ...