Patent Document ID: 8160686
Application ID: 12399914
Patent Status: 1

Claim One:
1. An implantable cardiac stimulus device (ICSD) comprising a canister housing operational circuitry and a lead electrode assembly including a plurality of electrodes disposed thereon, with the lead electrode assembly configured to couple to the canister to electrically couple the operational circuitry to the electrodes on the lead electrode assembly, the operational circuitry being configured to perform a method of cardiac signal analysis comprising: the operational circuitry detecting a series of events; the operational circuitry analyzing a detection interval between consecutive detected events and the operational circuitry comparing the detection interval to a wide-complex (WC) detection interval threshold; if the detection interval is less than the WC detection interval threshold, the operational circuitry determines whether at least one of the following is also true: a) the consecutive detected events differ in polarity, where polarity is determined by observing whether a maximum or a minimum amplitude occurs first in time in the shape of each of the consecutive detected events; or b) an interval between the latter of the minimum or maximum amplitude point for the first-in-time of the consecutive detected events and the first of the minimum or maximum amplitude point for the second-in-time of the consecutive detected events is less than an event peak threshold; and if the operational circuitry determines that either a) or b) is true, the operational circuitry determines that one of the consecutive detected events is due to overdetection.