ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,303,700, issued on May 20, was assigned to Pacesetter Inc. (Sylmar, Canada).

"Method and system for implanting a septal wall electrode" was invented by Jan O. Mangual-Soto (Rho, Italy), Wenwen Li (Studio City, Calif.), Yun Qiao (Sunnyvale, Calif.) and Kyungmoo Ryu (Palmdale, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system is provided that includes a first electrode configured to be located within a septal wall, and a second electrode configured to be located outside of the septal wall. The system also includes an impedance circuit configured to measure impedance along an impedance monitoring (IM) vector between the first and second electr...