US Patent Issued to Pacesetter on May 20 for "Method and device for avoiding competitive atrial pacing" (California, Illinois Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,303,699, issued on May 20, was assigned to Pacesetter Inc. (Sylmar, Calif.).

"Method and device for avoiding competitive atrial pacing" was invented by Jordan Ireland Vance (North Hollywood, Calif.), Joy Catherine Wong (Los Angeles) and Jennifer Rhude (Carbondale, Ill.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods and devices herein are provided for managing atrial (A) pacing in connection with premature atrial contracts (PAC). The methods and devices obtain an atrial pace-on-PAC (APAC) interval and cardiac activity (CA) signals. The methods and devices are configured to: i) during a first cardiac beat; following a ventricular paced (VP) or ven...