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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8180449 | Dual chamber pacemaker An implantable medical device and a method for operating such a device to provide cardiac pacing to the heart of a patient for pacing hearts of patients suffering from periodical or intermittent atrio-ventricular blocks, for example, AV block or HIS block. A control... | 05/15/2012 |
| 8170691 | Medical implantable lead A medical implantable lead has a proximal end and a distal end, a biostable and biocompatible polymeric header, which is arranged at the distal end and has a first tubular portion, a helical fixation element located within the first tubular portion and being extenda... | 05/01/2012 |
| 8140161 | Method and medical system for determining a link quality of a communication link in such a medical system In a method and medical system for determining a link quality and a link quality margin of a communication link between a programmer device and an implantable medical device of such a medical system, a link quality monitoring circuit of the programmer or the medical... | 03/20/2012 |
| 8140158 | Heart monitoring device and a system to detect vibrations concerning the status of the heart An implantable heart monitoring system has a control circuit that operates an implanted vibrator to emit a vibration signal that interacts with tissue in vivo. A vibration sensor detects vibrations after interaction with the tissue, and supplies a detection signal t... | 03/20/2012 |
| 8140157 | Medical device for detecting ischemia and a method for such a device In a method and medical device for detecting an ischemic episode and to determine a location of ischemia in a heart of a patient, an impedance measuring circuit measures the impedances in the tissue between electrodes of at least one electrode configuration accordin... | 03/20/2012 |
| 8135455 | System and method for monitoring synchrony between chambers of a heart by volume measurements and analysis An implantable heart monitoring system includes a housing configured for implantation in a subject, at least one sensor member implanted relative to the heart of the subject to detect an electrical signal related to cardiac activity of the heart, a control circuit i... | 03/13/2012 |
| 8133187 | Implantable medical device with heart condition detection A method for detecting a condition of a heart of a patient using an implantable medical device, including the steps of sensing acoustic signals indicative of heart sounds of the heart of the patient; extracting signals corresponding to a first heart sound (S1... | 03/13/2012 |
| 8133186 | Implantable sensor lead In an implantable sensor lead for sensing mechanical cardiac activity of a heart, as well as a sensing method and a cardiac stimulator embodying such a sensor lead, multiple cardiac activity sensing elements are distributed along a portion of a length of the lead bo... | 03/13/2012 |
| 8131366 | Biventricular heart stimulator and method of controlling a biventricular heart stimulator In a biventricular heart stimulator and a method for controlling such a biventricular heart stimulator, successive stimulation pulses are delivered to the ventricles of a heart such that stimulation pulses in a single heartbeat cycle are respectively first delivered... | 03/06/2012 |
| 8126556 | Medical implantable device and method for connecting an antenna to the same In a medical implantable device having a hermetically sealed, radio shielded encapsulations containing an RF circuit therein and having an antenna located outside of the encapsulation, and in a method for connecting the RF circuit to the antenna, at least one hermet... | 02/28/2012 |
| 8103344 | Method, device, implantable stimulator and dual chamber cardiac therapy system In a device and method in a dual chamber pacing system operating in an atrial synchronized mode, the cardiac stimulator is connectable to a lead arrangement arranged for sensing atrial electrical and mechanical activity. Upon detection of an atrial arrhythmia based ... | 01/24/2012 |
| 8099177 | Implantable medical lead and method for the manufacture thereof A medically implantable lead configured for insertion into a human or animal body to be attached in the body with its distal end to tissue inside the body, as a rotatable helix at a distal end thereof that can be screwed into the tissue. The helix serves as an attac... | 01/17/2012 |
| 8099166 | Implantable medical device with lead failure detection An implantable heart stimulating device has an ECG sensing unit to receive heart potential signals from sensing electrodes at an electrode lead arranged in connection with a patient's heart. The ECG sensing unit is provided with a programmable make-break threshold. ... | 01/17/2012 |
| 8088075 | Identification of an implantable medical device by correlating cardiac related data In a method and system for identifying an implantable medical device (IMD), which is arranged to be disposed in a body, by conducting a telemetry communication session between the implantable medical device and an external programmer device, cardiac data are registe... | 01/03/2012 |
| 8073540 | Implantable heart stimulating device with stimulation rate optimization An implantable heart stimulating device has a stimulation pulse generator that emits stimulation pulses at an adjustable stimulation rate, an activity sensor that emits an activity signal in response to detected activity of the patient, and a physiological parameter... | 12/06/2011 |
| 8068908 | Implantable cardiac stimulator, system, device and method for monitoring cardiac synchrony In a system and method for monitoring cardiac synchrony in a human heart, a first sensor is positioned at a first cardiac wall location of a heart that is subject to movements related to longitudinal valve plane movements along the longitudinal axis of the heart, an... | 11/29/2011 |
| 8060213 | Medical telemetry system and operating method therefor A method in a telemetry system for establishing a connection between a base station and an implantable medical device includes the steps of: starting, in the base station, a first timer B-T2; determining, in the base station 4, channels that are fr... | 11/15/2011 |
| 8060203 | Method and apparatus for determining variation over time of a medical parameter of a human being An apparatus for determining variation over time of a medical parameter of a human being obtained from a sensed signal has a sensor implantable in the human being for sensing the signal. A comparator compares at least one characteristic property, derived from the se... | 11/15/2011 |
| 8060201 | Medical device A method for operating an implantable medical device to control a stimulation therapy includes the steps of: sensing an acoustic energy; producing acoustic signals indicative of heart sounds of the heart of the patient over predetermined periods of a cardiac cycle d... | 11/15/2011 |
| 8000811 | Suture sleeve A suture sleeve for securing an implantable lead to body tissue has a lumen that receives the lead and that includes a locking arrangement that secures the sleeve at a selected position along the lead. The locking arrangement provides the suture sleeve with three mo... | 08/16/2011 |
| 8000790 | Device for adjusting the sensitivity level of an implantable medical device An implantable cardiac stimulation device has an atrial detector that detects atrial events of a patient's heart, and a memory in which sequences of IEGM signals are stored, having a predetermined length, and an analyzing unit that analyzes the sequences to determin... | 08/16/2011 |
| 7981121 | Tool and a method for attaching a cardiac stimulator lead at a desired position inside a heart For attaching a cardiac stimulator lead at a desired position inside a heart, the stimulator lead having a flexible tube from which a helix is extendible at a distal end thereof by a screw rotating motion and having a proximal end interconnected with an operating me... | 07/19/2011 |
| 7979125 | Implantable biventricular heart stimulating device and method for performing a capture threshold search In an implantable biventricular heart stimulating device, and a biventricular heart stimulating method, wherein operation takes place normally with a time VV between a pacing pulse delivered, or inhibited, by a first ventricular pacing circuit and a pacing pulse del... | 07/12/2011 |
| 7959757 | Method and device for manufacturing a medical lead In a method and device for mounting an elongated member inside an elongated, elastic, flexible tubing, initially having an inside cross-sectional dimension that is approximately equal to or less than the outside cross-sectional dimension of the elongated member, the... | 06/14/2011 |
| 7959576 | Apparatus for detecting diastolic heart failure An implantable medical apparatus for detecting diastolic heart failure, DHF, has a DHF determining device for determining at least one DHF parameter for detecting a DHF state of the heart of a patient. The DHF includes circuitry for determining, as the DHF parameter... | 06/14/2011 |
| 7953487 | Heart stimulating device An implantable heart stimulating device for indicating congestive heart failure (CHF) has a processor, an activity sensor that generates an activity signal indicative of a patient's activity, and a blood temperature sensor that measures blood temperature inside the ... | 05/31/2011 |
| 7945328 | Strain reliever for a lead of an implantable heart stimulator A strain reliever for a lead of an implantable heart stimulator, the lead including at least one cable having an electric conductor, has a body of electrically conducting material in electric contact with the electric conductor. The body is lockable in a position in... | 05/17/2011 |
| 7917204 | Method and implantable medical device for measuring an electrical bio-impedance of a patient In a method and device for measuring an electrical bio-impedance of a patient at least one impedance measurement signal is generated by a current pulse generator, the signal having at least one asymmetric multiphasic impedance measurement waveform that is asymmetric... | 03/29/2011 |
| 7912546 | Method and apparatus for determining a replacement time of an electric battery In a method and apparatus for determining the replacement time of an electric battery in an implantable medical device, the battery being a hybrid battery with a combination of at least two electrode materials, one of which having better properties for high current ... | 03/22/2011 |
| 7908005 | Medical system for monitoring and localization of electrode leads in the heart A medical system has an implantable heart stimulator with sensing and stimulating pairs of electrodes, with an electric field through the heart being generated by the respective pairs by the application of alternating voltages at a preset frequency to the respective... | 03/15/2011 |
| 7908002 | Heart stimulator detecting atrial arrhythmia by determining wall distension by impedance measuring In an implantable pacemaker, pacing pulses are delivered to a ventricle in a P-wave synchronous mode as long as no atrial arrhythmia is detected, pacing pulses and a mode switch is made to deliver pacing pulses to the ventricle in a non-P-wave synchronous mode if at... | 03/15/2011 |
| 7848820 | System and method for radio communication between an implantable medical device and an external base unit In a system and method for radio communication between an implantable medical device (IMD) and an external base unit, respectively including transceivers for communication therebetween, the external base unit, according to a predetermined criterion, sends a sleep me... | 12/07/2010 |
| 7860581 | Implantable lead with a stimulating electrode and a mapping electrode that is electrically disconnectable An implantable lead for delivering electrical stimuli to a human heart has a stimulating electrode for transmitting electrical stimuli to the myocardium after implantation, and a mapping electrode for use during implantation. The mapping electrode is configured to d... | 12/28/2010 |
| 7778697 | Detection of ischemia In an ischemia detection method, and in an ischemia detector and a cardiac stimulator embodying an ischemia detector, a workload of a patient is measured, as is an ejection fraction (EF) associated with the heart of the patient is determined. A predetermined referen... | 08/17/2010 |
| 7761156 | Method for operating an implantable cardiac stimulator to set the atrial stimulation time interval dependent on the evoked response amplitude In a method for operating an implantable heart stimulating device with atrial overdrive capability having an atrial stimulation unit for stimulating the atrium via stimulation electrode(s), an atrial evoked response detector determines an atrial evoked response ampl... | 07/20/2010 |
| 7725189 | Method, device, and system concerning heart stimulation In a cardiac stimulation method, device and system, a capture verification condition is determined. For this purpose, a number of pacing pulses are delivered to a heart chamber and signals are sensed within a time window following each pacing pulse. The sensed signa... | 05/25/2010 |
| 7662086 | Detection and/or monitoring of diastolic heart failure In an implantable medical device for detecting and/or monitoring the progression of diastolic heart failure (DHF), and a corresponding method, a parameter is measured that is indicative of left ventricular ejection fraction (LVEF), and a variable is also measured th... | 02/16/2010 |
| 7647110 | Modular implantable medical device and manufacturing method therefor In an implantable medical device and a manufacturing method therefore, the implantable medical device has at least an electronics module and a battery module, each contributing functionally as well as to the shape of the outer enclosure of the implantable medical de... | 01/12/2010 |
| 7610087 | Implantable cardioverter defibrillator with automatic switching to a pre-set pacing mode following delivery of a shock An implantable cardiac stimulator, such as a cardioverter defibrillator, is operable in an autocapture mode. Following the delivery of a defibrillation or cardioversion shock, the stimulator switches from the autocapture mode to a post-shock mode, in which predeterm... | 10/27/2009 |
| 7569020 | Method for extracting timing parameters using a cardio-mechanical sensor In a method and apparatus for measuring the ejection fraction in a mammalian heart, the opening and closing of a heart valve is sensed with an implanted sensor, and a pre-ejection period is measured as a function of the sensed opening and closing of the heart valve.... | 08/04/2009 |
