A61N 1/3712
Auto-capture, i.e. automatic adjustment of the stimulation threshold
Official title: {Auto-capture, i.e. automatic adjustment of the stimulation threshold}
A61N1/3712 (Auto-capture, i.e. automatic adjustment of the stimulation threshold) appears on 545 US grants and 408 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in A61N- Granted patents
- 545
- Published applications
- 408
- Assignees
- 60
- Inventors
- 482
- Latest grant
- 11 Aug 2026
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| 2004 | 16 | 25 |
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| 2006 | 19 | 30 |
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| 2023 | 12 | 11 |
| 2024 | 13 | 14 |
| 2025 | 11 | 13 |
| 2026 | 8 | 7 |
By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
Subgroups
Granted patents
Recent patents
- His-bundle or bundle branch pacing capture verification11 Aug 2026US 12,702,843 B2Cardiac Pacemakers, Inc.
- Implantable medical device and method for determining his bundle pacing capture4 Aug 2026US 12,697,493 B2Medtronic, Inc.
- Feedback control of electrical stimulation therapy based on electric field imaging2 Jun 2026US 12,642,971 B2Medtronic, Inc.
- Cardiac pacing threshold acquisition method, pacing control method and apparatus, and medical device21 Apr 2026US 12,605,555 B2United InnoMed (Shanghai) Limited
- Chronically implantable systems and methods for affecting cardiac contractility and/or relaxation10 Mar 2026US 12,569,686 B2Cardionomix, Inc.
- Detection and verification methods and systems for left bundle branch pacing capture8 Oct 2026US 2026/0306853 A1
- Acoustic modulation device for medical applications and method thereof1 Oct 2026US 2026/0295277 A1
- Methods and systems for hemodynamically dependent implantable cardioverter defibrillator therapy21 May 2026US 2026/0137945 A1Pacesetter, Inc.
- Ventricular conduction system pacing therapy control21 May 2026US 2026/0137946 A1Medtronic, Inc.
- Implantable medical device employing electrode integrity monitoring23 Apr 2026US 2026/0108743 A1Biotronik SE & Co.KG
Most cited
By later US patents
- Physiologically responsive pacemaker and method of adjusting the pacing interval thereof418US 4,712,555 ASiemens Elema AB · 1987
- System and method for multisite steering of cardiac stimuli340US 5,800,465 AMedtronic, Inc. · 1998
- Programmer system and associated methods for rapidly evaluating and programming an implanted cardiac device298US 5,891,178 APacesetter, Inc. · 1999
- Verification of capture by sensing evoked response across cardioversion electrodes277US 5,683,431 AMedtronic, Inc. · 1997
- Autocapture system for implantable pulse generator268US 5,350,410 ASiemens-Pacesetter, Inc. · 1994