Patents by Inventor Gerald P. Borgerding

Gerald P. Borgerding has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Implantable device with automatic sensing adjustment
    Patent number: 6058327
    Abstract: An implantable cardiac pacemaker and a method of its operation. The pacemaker delivers pacing pulses to a first chamber of a patient's heart and senses depolarizations of a second chamber of the patient's heart. The amplifier for sensing depolarizations of the second chamber of the patient's heart defines a base sensing threshold and, responsive to delivery of a pacing pulse to the first chamber of the patient's heart for defines an increased sensing threshold greater than the base sensing threshold. The increased sensing threshold persists for a defined period of time following delivery of a pacing pulse to the first chamber of the patient's heart and thereafter gradually decreases from the increased sensing threshold to the base sensing threshold.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 9, 1998
    Date of Patent: May 2, 2000
    Assignee: Medtronic, Inc.
    Inventors: Girard B. Borgerding, David K. L. Peterson, Gerald P. Borgerding