ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,257,440, issued on March 25, was assigned to Pacesetter Inc. (Sylmar, Calif.).

"Systems and methods for managing atrial-ventricular delay adjustments" was invented by Wenwen Li (San Jose, Calif.), Nima Badie (Berkeley, Calif.), Luke C. McSpadden (Los Angeles), Yun Qiao (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Avi Fischer (New Rochelle, N.Y.) and Kyungmoo Ryu (Palmdale, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system and method are provided for managing atrial-ventricular (AV) delay adjustments. An AV interval is measured that corresponds to an interval between an atrial paced (Ap) event or an atrial sensed (As) event and a sensed ventricular (Vs) event. A c...