ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,472,363, issued on Nov. 18, was assigned to Medtronic Inc. (Minneapolis).
"Pacing mode switching in a ventricular pacemaker" was invented by Todd J. Sheldon (North Oaks, Minn.), Yong K. Cho (Excelsior, Minn.), Wade M. Demmer (Coon Rapids, Minn.), Mark K. Erickson (Brooklyn Park, Minn.) and Vincent E. Splett (Apple Valley, Minn.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An intracardiac ventricular pacemaker is configured to operate in in a selected one of an atrial-tracking ventricular pacing mode and a non-atrial tracking ventricular pacing mode. A control circuit of the pacemaker determines at least one motion signal metric from the motion signal,...