US Patent Issued to Medtronic on Nov. 18 for "Post-ventricular atrial blanking in a cardiac device" (Minnesota, Illinois Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,472,364, issued on Nov. 18, was assigned to Medtronic Inc. (Minneapolis).

"Post-ventricular atrial blanking in a cardiac device" was invented by Todd J. Sheldon (North Oaks, Minn.), Keelia M. Escalante (Minneapolis) and Aaron M. Saikin (Round Lake, Ill.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A medical device is configured to identify a first group of cardiac events, determine a cardiac event interval based on the first group of cardiac events and determine whether the cardiac event interval is less than a threshold interval or greater than the threshold interval. The medical device is configured to select a first blanking period duration if the ...