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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 23, 2013
Filed:
Sep. 22, 2009
Applicants:
Raymond C. Kurzweil, Newton, MA (US);
Lucy Gibson, Belmont, MA (US);
Paul Albrecht, Bedford, MA (US);
Paul Grimshaw, Acton, MA (US);
Inventors:
Raymond C. Kurzweil, Newton, MA (US);
Lucy Gibson, Belmont, MA (US);
Paul Albrecht, Bedford, MA (US);
Paul Grimshaw, Acton, MA (US);
Assignee:
Medicomp, Inc., Melbourne, FL (US);
Attorneys:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
A61B 5/0402 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
Atrial fibrillation is detected in an electrical signal representative of a beating heart by measuring atrial activity over a time window of three or more beats, measuring beat interval variation over the time window and combining the measures of atrial activity and beat interval variation to produce an indication of an atrial fibrillation condition in the electrical signal.