US Patent Issued to Pacesetter on July 8 for "System for identifying premature ventricular contractions" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,350,058, issued on July 8, was assigned to Pacesetter Inc. (Sylmar, Canada).

"System for identifying premature ventricular contractions" was invented by Yun Qiao (Sunnyvale, Calif.) and Fujian Qu (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system is provided that includes one or more processors, and a memory coupled to the one or more processors. The memory stores program instructions, and the program instructions are executable by the one or more processors. When executed, the one or more processors obtain cardiac activity (CA) signals for a series of beats, and identify whether a characteristic of interest (COI) from a first segm...