US Patent Issued to Medtronic on Sept. 16 for "Integrated sleep apnea and at least one of cardiac monitoring and cardiac therapy" (Minnesota, Arizona Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,415,075, issued on Sept. 16, was assigned to Medtronic Inc. (Minneapolis).

"Integrated sleep apnea and at least one of cardiac monitoring and cardiac therapy" was invented by Avram Scheiner (Vadnais Heights, Minn.), Randal C. Schulhauser (Phoenix) and Becky L. Dolan (Chisago, Minn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An implantable medical device (IMD) includes therapy delivery circuitry, sensing circuitry, and processing circuitry. The processing circuitry is configured to determine one or more sleep apnea therapy parameters, control the therapy delivery circuitry to deliver sleep apnea therapy via a first set of electrodes implantable with...