Patent ID: 11964158
Assignee: SIGAMASENSE, LLC.
Field: Medical technology (Instruments)
Classification: CPC A | IPC A

Claim 0:
1. A pacemaker system comprising:
a drive-sense circuit (DSC) operably coupled to a pacemaker lead, wherein, when enabled, the DSC configured to:
generate a pace signal including electrical impulses based on a reference signal;
provide the pace signal, via the pacemaker lead, to an electrically responsive portion of a cardiac conductive system of a subject to facilitate cardiac operation of a cardiovascular system of the subject, wherein muscles of a heart of the subject produce a mechanical response to the electrical impulses of the pace signal to move blood through the cardiovascular system of the subject;
sense, via the pacemaker lead, cardiac electrical activity of the cardiovascular system of the subject that is generated in response to the pace signal and that is electrically coupled into the pacemaker lead; and
generate a digital signal that is representative of the cardiac electrical activity of the cardiovascular system of the subject that is sensed via the pacemaker lead;

memory that stores operational instructions; and
one or more processing modules operably coupled to the DSC and the memory, wherein, when enabled, the one or more processing modules is configured to execute the operational instructions to:
process the digital signal generated by the DSC to determine the cardiac electrical activity of the cardiovascular system of the subject that is sensed via the pacemaker lead; and
adjust one or more electrical characteristics of the reference signal during at least one of the DSC providing of the pace signal, via the pacemaker lead, to the electrically responsive portion of the cardiac conductive system of the subject or the DSC sensing, via the pacemaker lead, the cardiac electrical activity of the cardiovascular system of the subject.