ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,440,169, issued on Oct. 14, was assigned to Medtronic Inc. (Minneapolis).
"Determining prospective risk of heart failure hospitalization" was invented by Vinod Sharma (Maple Grove, Minn.), Eduardo N. Warman (Maple Grove, Minn.) and Karen J. Kleckner (Blaine, Minn.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of operation of a medical device system for determining prospective heart failure hospitalization risk. The method includes measuring one or more data observations via one or more electrodes of an implanted medical device disposed in a patient's body. The data observations are stored into memory of the implantable medical device of a pati...