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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 06, 2012
Filed:
Apr. 20, 2010
Applicants:
Raja N. Ghanem, Edina, MN (US);
Robert W. Stadler, Shoreview, MN (US);
Xusheng Zhang, Shoreview, MN (US);
Inventors:
Raja N. Ghanem, Edina, MN (US);
Robert W. Stadler, Shoreview, MN (US);
Xusheng Zhang, Shoreview, MN (US);
Assignee:
Medtronics, Inc., Minneapolis, MN (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
A61N 1/37 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
A method of detecting a cardiac event that includes sensing cardiac signals from a plurality of electrodes, determining rates of change of the sensed cardiac signals, and determining a range of the sensed cardiac signals. The sensed cardiac signals are detected as being associated with the cardiac event in response to the determined rates of change and the determined range.