ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,357,235, issued on July 15, was assigned to Pacesetter Inc. (Sylmar, Canada).
"Method and system for monitoring heart function based on heart sound center of mass" was invented by Nikolaos Politis (Berlin), Jan O. Mangual-Soto (Rho, Italy), Louis-Philippe Richer (Montreal), Jong Gill (Valencia, Calif.) and Fady Dawoud (Studio City, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A leadless implantable medical device (IMD) and method of using same are provided. The IMD comprises: a housing, a fixation element, electrodes configured to sense electrical cardiac activity (CA) signals over a period of time, an HS sensor configured to sense HS signals o...