US Patent Issued to Medtronic on Oct. 14 for "Method and apparatus for establishing parameters for cardiac event detection" (Minnesota Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,440,681, issued on Oct. 14, was assigned to Medtronic Inc. (Minneapolis).

"Method and apparatus for establishing parameters for cardiac event detection" was invented by Todd J. Sheldon (North Oaks, Minn.), Keelia M. Escalante (Minneapolis), Mikayle A. Holm (Minneapolis) and Paul R. Solheim (Blaine, Minn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A medical having a motion sensor is configured to set an atrial event sensing parameter used for sensing atrial event signals from a motion signal produced by the motion sensor. The medical device sets an atrial event sensing parameter by applying a sensing window during each one of multiple ventricular cyc...