ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,350,059, issued on July 8, was assigned to Pacesetter Inc. (Sylmar, Calif.).

"Robust ventricular sensing of far-field EGM or ECG signals that avoids oversensing of ventricular sensed events" was invented by Yun Qiao (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Nima Badie (Oakland, Calif.), Wenwen Li (Studio City, Calif.), Chaoyi Kang (Northridge, Calif.), Jan Mangual (Milan) and Fady Dawoud (Studio City, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Described herein are methods, devices, and systems that identify ventricular sensed (VS) events from a signal indicative of cardiac electrical activity, such a far-field EGM or ECG signal, and monitor for an arrythmia and/or...