ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,472,361, issued on Nov. 18, was assigned to Medtronic Inc. (Minneapolis).
"Atrial synchronized ventricular pacing system" was invented by Jian Cao (Shoreview, Minn.), Paul J. Degroot (Shoreview, Minn.) and Todd J. Sheldon (North Oaks, Minn.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An implantable medical device system includes an extracardiac sensing device and an intracardiac pacemaker. The sensing device senses a P-wave attendant to an atrial depolarization of the heart via housing-based electrodes carried by the sensing device when the sensing device is implanted outside the cardiovascular system and sends a trigger signal to the intracardiac pa...