Patent 7792580 was granted and assigned to Medtronic on September, 2010 by the United States Patent and Trademark Office.
Implantable medical devices having two or more leads can utilize digital signal processing to sample and filter the acquired data. The processed data is utilized to identify electrical activity in cardiac tissue remote from the lead location. An atrial lead and a ventricular lead are used to acquire data and the data is processed to indicated electrical timing within the HIS bundle.