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| Application No. | Application Title | Issue Date |
| 20120130439 | System and Method for Monitoring Power Source Longevity of an Implantable Medical Device Power source longevity monitor for an implantable medical device. An energy counter counts the amount of energy used by the implantable medical device. An energy converter converts the energy used into an estimate of remaining power source longevity and generating an en... | 05/24/2012 |
| 20120130286 | COLLECTING POSTURE INFORMATION TO EVALUATE THERAPY A medical device delivers a therapy to a patient. Posture events are identified, e.g., a posture of the patient is periodically determined and/or posture transitions by the patient are identified, and each determined posture event is associated with a current therapy pa... | 05/24/2012 |
| 20120130208 | COEFFICENT DETERMINATION FOR BLOOD OXYGEN SATURATION AND TOTAL HEMOGLOBIN CONCENTRATION INDICES A first concentration of a chromophore corresponding to a measurement volume of an optical sensor is determined. A second concentration of the chromophore is obtained in the vicinity of the measurement volume corresponding to a change in at least one of a total concentr... | 05/24/2012 |
| 20120109675 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR IDENTIFYING A PROSPECTIVE CLINICAL THERAPY FOR A PROSPECTIVE PATIENT HAVING A MEDICAL DEVICE System and method for identifying a prospective clinical therapy for a prospective patient. The patient has a medical device, performed with a medical apparatus. The system has a historical database and an analyzer. The historical database incorporates information relat... | 05/03/2012 |
| 20120109149 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR IMPLANTATION OF AN IMPLANTABLE MEDICAL DEVICE System and method for implanting an implantable medical device. A catheter has a lumen and a distal portion configured for insertion in proximity of tissue of a patient. An implantable medical device has a fixation member operatively coupled to the housing having an une... | 05/03/2012 |
| 20120109148 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR RETRIEVAL OF AN IMPLANTABLE MEDICAL DEVICE System and method for extracting an implantable medical device. An implantable medical device has a fixation member operatively coupled to the housing having an engaged state configured to engage tissue of a patient, the medical device being magnetically attractable. A ... | 05/03/2012 |
| 20120109001 | SENSING IN AN IMPLANTABLE DEVICE IN THE PRESENCE OF AN INTERFERING SIGNAL USING LEAD IMPEDANCE MEASUREMENTS A device to which an implantable lead is coupled may be configured to perform one or more impedance measurements subsequent to a sensed physiological event to determine whether the sensed physiological event is possibly associated with noise induced by an interfering si... | 05/03/2012 |
| 20120108998 | THERAPY CONTROL BASED ON A PATIENT MOVEMENT STATE A movement state of a patient is detected based on brain signals, such as an electroencephalogram (EEG) signal. In some examples, a brain signal within a dorsal-lateral prefrontal cortex of a brain of the patient indicative of prospective movement of the patient may be ... | 05/03/2012 |
| 20120108949 | STAGED SENSING ADJUSTMENTS BY AN IMPLANTABLE MEDICAL DEVICE IN THE PRESENCE OF INTERFERING SIGNALS An implantable medical device (IMD) receives an input associated with the presence of an environment having an external source that generates an interfering signal, such as an MRI device. The IMD adjusts a first set of one or more sensing parameters of a sensing module ... | 05/03/2012 |
| 20120108925 | MONITORING OF TISSUE HEMOGLOBIN CONCENTRATION A medical device system and associated method monitor tissue hemoglobin concentration. Light attenuation is measured in a volume of tissue in a patient. A value of a tissue scattering coefficient corresponding to the tissue volume in the patient is established in respon... | 05/03/2012 |
| 20120108908 | ENHANCED SENSING BY AN IMPLANTABLE MEDICAL DEVICE IN THE PRESENCE OF AN INTERFERING SIGNAL FROM AN EXTERNAL SOURCE An implantable medical device (IMD) adjusts a sensing configuration of a sensing module prior to or immediately subsequent to entering an environment having an external source that generates the interfering signal. The IMD may, for example, adjust a sampling frequency, ... | 05/03/2012 |
| 20120108509 | ARTIFICIAL SCAB FOR USE IN AN AIRWAY Body tissue and structures in an airway may be treated with an artificial scab comprising an inhomogeneous, uncohesive, solid sheet-like body comprising a granular mixture of chitosan and polysaccharide particles. The artificial scab breaks apart into smaller pieces if ... | 05/03/2012 |
| 20120107672 | Electrode With Interconnection Design for Miniature Electrochemical Cells and Methods of Making Miniature electrodes and electrochemical cells are disclosed. Such electrodes are made from forming an electrode mixture onto a current collector and distal end of a feedthrough pin such that the current collector and distal end of the feedthrough pin is encapsulated. T... | 05/03/2012 |
| 20120105017 | METHOD OF MAINTAINING WET-TANTALUM ELECTROLYTIC CAPACITORS Wet-tantalum capacitors used in a medical device are charged to and maintained at a maintenance voltage between full energy charges so that deformation in the wet-tantalum capacitor is substantially inhibited.... | 05/03/2012 |
| 20120081201 | CONFORMAL ANTENNA FOR IMPLANTABLE MEDICAL DEVICE AND IMPLANTABLE MEDICAL DEVICE WITH SUCH ANTENNA System and method for making an antenna. An implantable medical device has a housing, a bobbin and a coil. The housing has an interior generally tubular cross-section with a longitudinal axis, the housing having a lateral portion of a segment of the tubular cross-sectio... | 04/05/2012 |
| 20120053477 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR ENHANCING TREATABLE ARRHYTHMIA DETECTION SPECIFICITY BY USING ACCUMULATED PATIENT ACTIVITY A method and apparatus for detecting a cardiac event in a medical device determine an activity level count from an activity sensor signal for each of a number of time segments, store an activity level count for each of the time segments in a histogram, and accumulate th... | 03/01/2012 |
| 20120035686 | FAIL-SAFE PROGRAMMING FOR IMPLANTABLE MEDICAL DEVICE In general, the invention is directed to a system with a fail-safe mode for remote programming of medical devices, such as implantable medical devices (IMDs). During a remote programming session, an adverse event, such as a programming session failure, may prevent prope... | 02/09/2012 |
| 20120035587 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR PROVIDING THERAPIES INTO THE PERICARDIAL SPACE Methods and systems for transvenously accessing the pericardial space via the vascular system and atrial wall, particularly through the superior vena cava and right atrial wall, to deliver a pharmacologic agent, particularly a NO-donor drug, to the heart are disclosed. ... | 02/09/2012 |
| 20120034896 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR UNSCHEDULED WIRELESS COMMUNICATION WITH A MEDICAL DEVICE Unscheduled wireless communication with a medical device is achieved by operating a receiver of the medical device in a series of modes. Each mode provides an increasingly selective evaluation of received RF energy. The receiver, when operating in a first mode, is capab... | 02/09/2012 |
| 20120029598 | Antenna For An Implantable Medical Device This disclosure describes antenna structures for use in an implantable medical device. The implantable medical device may include a housing that hermetically encloses electronic components of the implantable medical device and a fixation mechanism that affixes the impla... | 02/02/2012 |
| 20120029597 | GRAPHICAL CONFIGURATION OF ELECTRODES FOR ELECTRICAL STIMULATION A device that programs a medical device includes a display and a user input device. The device displays a graphical representation of a plurality of electrodes on a medical lead implanted in the patient, and displays an active electrode template at a first position rela... | 02/02/2012 |
| 20120029323 | Antenna For An Implantable Medical Device This disclosure describes antenna structures for use in an implantable medical device. The antenna structure may include an inner portion that is magnetically coupled to an outer portion. In one example, the inner and outer portions comprise conductive loops. In accorda... | 02/02/2012 |
| 20110282289 | Systems and Methods for Gaining Access Around an Implanted Medical Device Systems for gaining access into a body of a patient around an implanted body of an elongate medical device include a sheath having a deformable wall that allows insertion of the device body into a lumen surrounded by the sheath wall. The sheath wall may include first an... | 11/17/2011 |
| 20120022615 | SHIFTING BETWEEN ELECTRODE COMBINATIONS IN ELECTRICAL STIMULATION DEVICE The disclosure is directed to techniques for shifting between two electrode combinations. An amplitude of a first electrode combination is incrementally decreased while an amplitude of a second, or subsequent, electrode combination is concurrently incrementally increase... | 01/26/2012 |
| 20120022614 | SHIFTING BETWEEN ELECTRODE COMBINATIONS IN ELECTRICAL STIMULATION DEVICE The disclosure is directed to techniques for shifting between two electrode combinations. An amplitude of a first electrode combination is incrementally decreased while an amplitude of a second, or subsequent, electrode combination is concurrently incrementally increase... | 01/26/2012 |
| 20110281148 | NEGATIVE-LIMITED LITHIUM-ION BATTERY A rechargeable lithium-ion battery includes a positive electrode having a first capacity and a negative electrode having a second capacity that is less than the first capacity such that the battery has a negative-limited design. The negative electrode includes a lithium... | 11/17/2011 |
| 20110275975 | ANTI-THROMBOGENIC VENOUS SHUNT METHOD A venous shunt method adapted to shunt cerebral spinal fluid in a patient. A fluid control device having a fluid passage is adapted to be placed allowing cerebral spinal fluid to flow through the fluid passage. A catheter having a lumen, the catheter being in fluid comm... | 11/10/2011 |
| 20110270362 | ACTIVE CIRCUIT MRI/EMI PROTECTION POWERED BY INTERFERING ENERGY FOR A MEDICAL STIMULATION LEAD AND DEVICE An implantable lead for use with a medical device (IMD) includes active circuits incorporated into the lead to reduce the creation of an induced current, or dissipate the induced current and heat created due to an induced current in the lead. The active circuits are pow... | 11/03/2011 |
| 20110270335 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR DETECTING AND DISCRIMINATING TACHYCARDIA A medical device and associated method for discriminating cardiac events includes determining whether a cardiac evidence counter is greater than a predetermined detection threshold, advancing from a concerned state to a convinced state in response to the evidence counte... | 11/03/2011 |
| 20110270334 | METHOD OF DUAL EGM SENSING AND HEART RATE ESTIMATION IN IMPLANTED CARDIAC DEVICES A method and apparatus for monitoring a patient's heart rate sense first cardiac events in a heart chamber using a first cardiac electrode pair and sense second cardiac events in the heart chamber using a second cardiac electrode pair. The method includes estimating a f... | 11/03/2011 |
| 20110270333 | METHOD OF DUAL EGM SENSING AND HEART RATE ESTIMATION IN IMPLANTED CARDIAC DEVICES A method and apparatus for monitoring a patient's heart rate sense first cardiac events in a heart chamber using a first cardiac electrode pair and sense second cardiac events in the heart chamber using a second cardiac electrode pair. The method includes estimating a f... | 11/03/2011 |
| 20110270269 | IMPLANTABLE MEDICAL LEAD INCLUDING A PLURALITY OF TINE ELEMENTS An implantable medical electrical lead comprises a lead body extending between a distal end and a proximal end, and the distal end having at least one electrode of an electrode array extending longitudinally from the distal end toward the proximal end. The lead body at ... | 11/03/2011 |
| 20110270159 | Communications System for an Implantable Medical Device and a Delivery Device A method for monitoring drug dose, intake and effectiveness includes a drug delivery device in data communications with at least one implantable medical device. The method is preferably implemented in a web-enabled environment in which a remote data center communicates ... | 11/03/2011 |
| 20110270110 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR DETECTING AND DISCRIMINATING TACHYCARDIA A medical device and associated method for monitoring a patient's heart rhythm sensing a cardiac signal determine whether a cardiac signal is noise corrupted by obtaining cardiac signal pulses and generating a pulse amplitude threshold in response to the plurality of si... | 11/03/2011 |
| 20110270109 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR DETECTING AND DISCRIMINATING TACHYCARDIA A medical device and associated method obtaining cardiac event intervals corresponding to a tachycardia interval. Evidence of a rhythm breaking point is obtained in response to sensing a cardiac event having a morphology corresponding to a supraventricular beat. A non-t... | 11/03/2011 |
| 20110270108 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR DETECTING AND DISCRIMINATING TACHYCARDIA A medical device and associated method for monitoring a patient's heart rhythm sense cardiac events and detect a sudden change in the heart rhythm in response to the sensed cardiac events. Detecting the sudden change includes determining a variability of intervals betwe... | 11/03/2011 |
| 20110270107 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR DETECTING AND DISCRIMINATING TACHYCARDIA A medical device and associated method for discriminating cardiac events includes determining whether a first match score is within a first match zone having a first correlation with a non-treatable cardiac event, a second match zone having a second correlation with the... | 11/03/2011 |
| 20110270106 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR DETECTING AND DISCRIMINATING TACHYCARDIA A medical device and associated method for discriminating cardiac events sense cardiac signals that includes determining whether a first match score is within one of a first match zone corresponding to a first cardiac event, and a second match zone corresponding to the ... | 11/03/2011 |
| 20110270104 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR DETECTING AND DISCRIMINATING TACHYCARDIA A medical device and associated method for discriminating cardiac events includes determining whether a cardiac evidence counter is greater than a predetermined detection threshold, determining whether to advance from a current state to a next state in response to the e... | 11/03/2011 |
| 20110270103 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR DETECTING AND DISCRIMINATING TACHYCARDIA A medical device and associated method for discriminating cardiac events includes determining whether a first match score is within a first match zone having a first correlation with a non-treatable cardiac event, a second match zone having a second correlation with the... | 11/03/2011 |
