ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,414,727, issued on Sept. 16, was assigned to Medtronic Inc. (Minneapolis).

"Device and method for determining a cardiac sensing control parameter" was invented by Xusheng Zhang (Shoreview, Minn.) and Yuanzhen Liu (Palo Alto, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A medical device processor is configured to receive a first cardiac electrical signal sensed from a first sensing electrode vector, receive a second cardiac electrical signal sensed from a second sensing electrode vector different than the first sensing electrode vector, and construct a third cardiac electrical signal from the first cardiac electrical signal and the second cardi...