US Patent Issued to Pacesetter on Sept. 16 for "Systems and methods for using leadless pacemaker to assist non-vascular implantable cardiac defibrillator" (California Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,415,082, issued on Sept. 16, was assigned to Pacesetter Inc. (Sylmar, Calif.).

"Systems and methods for using leadless pacemaker to assist non-vascular implantable cardiac defibrillator" was invented by Matthew G. Fishler (Scotts Valley, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods, systems, and devices that detect arrhythmic episodes and perform arrhythmia discrimination are described. Such a system includes a leadless pacemaker (LP) that senses a near-field electrogram (NF-EGM), and a non-vascular implantable cardioverter defibrillator (NV-ICD) that senses a far-field electrogram (FF-EGM). The LP determines cardiac activity informati...