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| 8185202 | Implantable cardiac device for reduced phrenic nerve stimulation Methods and devices for reducing phrenic nerve stimulation of cardiac pacing systems involve delivering a pacing pulse to a ventricle of a heart. A transthoracic impedance signal is sensed, and a deviation in the signal resulting from the pacing pulse may be used to... | 05/22/2012 |
| 8185195 | Arrhythmia classification and therapy selection Different types of cardiac arrhythmia are classified based on the morphology of the arrhythmic beats. Cardiac beats associated with an arrhythmic episode are compared to a plurality of representative beat morphologies, each representative beat morphology characteriz... | 05/22/2012 |
| 8176064 | Method, device and system for information based automated selective data handling and provision by identification means In general, the present invention purposes a method for automated information based selective data provision by an identification device is provided. Information data associated with a plurality of data records stored in a data storage are scanned in order to obtain... | 05/08/2012 |
| 8175703 | Cardiac resynchronization therapy parameter optimization Systems and methods involve determination of CRT parameters using a number of CRT optimization processes. Each CRT optimization process attempts to return recommended parameters. The CRT parameters are determined based on the recommended parameters returned by one o... | 05/08/2012 |
| 8152627 | Gaming method and apparatus for facilitating a game involving specialty wild functionality Various embodiments are directed to a plurality of rounds of a game, the game comprising providing a play area comprising a plurality of regions and game elements distributed within the regions, moving a roving wild indicator within the play area to one of the game ... | 04/10/2012 |
| 8150535 | Sensor guided epicardial lead Implantable cardiac monitoring and stimulation methods and devices with epicardial leads having sensor feedback. A fixed or extendable/retractable sensor may be displaceable within the lead's lumen and configured to sense the presence of an anatomical feature or phy... | 04/03/2012 |
| 8150480 | Device with retracted front face A device with a front face such as an operating face, including elements of the user interface of the device is provided. A major part of the front face is concave so that the front face is retracted and thereby protected from being scratched. ... | 04/03/2012 |
| 8147996 | Perpendicular media with dual soft magnetic layers A recording medium having a substrate, a first soft magnetic underlayer, a second soft magnetic underlayer and a perpendicular magnetic recording layer without a spacer layer between the first and second soft magnetic underlayers is disclosed. ... | 04/03/2012 |
| 8147415 | System and method for detection of pulmonary embolism Systems and methods provide for ambulatorily sensing pulmonary artery pressure from within a patient, and producing a pulmonary artery pressure measurement from the sensed pulmonary artery pressure. Power is ambulatorily provided within the patient to facilitate sen... | 04/03/2012 |
| 8144701 | Method and device of frame number encoding for synchronization of electronic devices The present invention proposes a methodology implementable in form of a hardware or software module for coding and decoding a frame number. Firstly a method for encoding an original frame number for synchronization of communication between electronic devices resulti... | 03/27/2012 |
| 8140650 | Use of configurations in device with multiple configurations The invention relates to a method for arranging use of configurations in a device with multiple configuration data sets manageable by one or more external managing entities. The device comprises access control information originated and/or controlled by an external ... | 03/20/2012 |
| 8140153 | Cardiac tachyarrhythmia therapy selection based on patient response information Cardiac treatment methods and devices providing templates representative of past tachyarrhythmia events, each template associated with a therapy. A cardiac waveform is detected, and if it corresponds to a particular template associated with a previous therapy that w... | 03/20/2012 |
| 8136612 | Constant-mode auto-drill with pressure derivative control Some embodiments of the invention concern HDD in an automatic drilling mode. Such embodiments can include maintaining a constant output parameter while performing a drilling operation using an HDD rig (20) having a thrust pump, generating hydraulic fluid pres... | 03/20/2012 |
| 8135893 | System, apparatus and method for granting access to a shared communications bus Systems, apparatuses and methods for timing access to a shared communications bus by a plurality of devices. Each of a plurality of nodes is successively provided an opportunity to gain access to a shared bus according to a time slot allocation referenced from a tim... | 03/13/2012 |
| 8130459 | Converting timing errors into symbol errors to handle write mis-synchronization in bit-patterned media recording systems A method includes writing data to a bit-patterned media at times determined by a clock having a period that is offset from a bit island period by a fixed offset to create one insertion or one deletion approximately within a predetermined number of bit islands, readi... | 03/06/2012 |
| 8127065 | Storage card having selectable contact elements and method of its operation The present invention relates to a storage card having selectable contact elements a terminal capable of receiving said storage card and method of its operation. The storage card with selectable contact elements, comprises an interface having a plurality of contact ... | 02/28/2012 |
| 8126570 | Telescoping guide catheter with peel-away outer sheath A guide catheter includes an outer guide having an open lumen and a longitudinal pre-stress line extending between a distal end and a proximal end of the outer guide. The outer guide has a longitudinal stiffness that facilitates transmission of forces and prevention... | 02/28/2012 |
| 8126520 | Apparatus with sliding housing parts An apparatus with a central housing, a top housing slidably movable relative to the central housing and a bottom housing slidably movable relative to the central housing is provided. The central housing is provided with an area for user input. A first portion of the... | 02/28/2012 |
| 8121674 | Method and system for characterizing a representative cardiac beat using multiple templates A method and system for characterizing one beat of a patient's supraventricular rhythm are described. A plurality of templates is provided and updated using a plurality of qualified beats. Updating occurs by temporally aligning the shock channel waveforms of the tem... | 02/21/2012 |
| 8120782 | Processes for producing tunable optical cavities A tunable optical cavity can be tuned by relative movement between two reflection surfaces, such as by deforming elastomer spacers connected between mirrors or other light-reflective components that include the reflection surfaces. The optical cavity structure inclu... | 02/21/2012 |
| 8119263 | Tuning exchange coupling in magnetic recording media A magnetic recording medium having a substrate, a first magnetic layer and a second magnetic layer, in this order, wherein an exchange coupling in the first magnetic layer is lower than an exchange coupling in the second magnetic layer, and the first and second magn... | 02/21/2012 |
| 8116871 | Automatic capture verification using electrocardiograms sensed from multiple implanted electrodes Cardiac monitoring and/or stimulation methods and systems that provide one or more of monitoring, diagnosing, defibrillation, and pacing. Cardiac signal separation is employed for automatic capture verification using cardiac activation sequence information. Devices ... | 02/14/2012 |
| 8116870 | Capture detection for multi-chamber pacing Multi-chamber pacing may result in capture of one chamber, capture of multiple chambers, fusion, or non-capture. Approaches for detecting various capture conditions during multi-chamber pacing are described. Pacing pulses are delivered to left and right heart chambe... | 02/14/2012 |
| 8116868 | Implantable device with cardiac event audio playback Cardiac monitoring and stimulation methods and systems provide audio playback of cardiac events and transthoracic monitoring and therapy. A medical system includes a housing and electrodes configured for sensing cardiac electrical activity. Another sensor may be con... | 02/14/2012 |
| 8110298 | Media for high density perpendicular magnetic recording Perpendicular magnetic recording media having a magnetic capping layer that is exchange coupled to an underlying perpendicular magnetic recording layer. The magnetic coupling layer is a granular layer having a high saturation magnetization (Ms). The perpe... | 02/07/2012 |
| 8109879 | Assessing autonomic activity using baroreflex analysis A method involves implantably detecting changes in posture of a patient's body. Baroreflex responses to the posture changes are determined. An autonomic tone of the patient is determined based on the baroreflex responses. Based on the autonomic tone, various patient... | 02/07/2012 |
| 8108520 | Apparatus and method for providing quality of service for a network data connection A system, apparatus, and method are disclosed for providing quality of service (QoS) for a network data connection. The network data connection uses a network protocol selectable from a plurality of network protocols. A QoS module can receive a request for a generic... | 01/31/2012 |
| 8107937 | System and method for automatic provisioning detection and notification A system and method for automatically initiating provisioning procedures is provided. Terminals that have not been provisioned for connection to a network or service are automatically recognized at the network. When such an unprovisioned terminal has been detected, ... | 01/31/2012 |
| 8104470 | Coordinated use of respiratory and cardiac therapies for sleep disordered breathing Methods and systems involve coordinating therapies used for treating disordered breathing. Disordered breathing therapies may include cardiac electrical stimulation therapy and external respiratory therapy as well as other therapies for treating disordered breathing... | 01/31/2012 |
| 8103346 | Regulatory compliant transmission of medical data employing a patient implantable medical device and a generic network access device Various embodiments concern a method which may include communicating medical information between a PIMD and an interface module via a first channel in compliance with a predetermined medical information regulatory standard, preventing access to the PIMD via the inte... | 01/24/2012 |
| 8103343 | Automatic modulation of pacing timing intervals using beat to beat measures Methods and systems to modulate timing intervals for pacing therapy are described. For each cardiac cycle, one or both of an atrioventricular (A-V) timing interval and an atrial (A-A) timing interval are modulated to oppose beat-to-beat ventricular (V-V) timing vari... | 01/24/2012 |
| 8102882 | Subcarrier truncating data transmission scheme in OFDM system A multicarrier data transmission scheme is provided. According to the provided scheme, a radio transmitter encodes data bits with different degrees, the degree of an encoded data bit being defined by the number of parity check equations protecting the data bit. The ... | 01/24/2012 |
| 8102839 | System, apparatus, and method for establishing circuit-switched communications via packet-switched network signaling A system, apparatus and method for establishing circuit-switched (CS) communications in packet-switched (PS) multimedia networks such as IMS, and providing services via the PS networks to CS domain users. A dialog is established between terminals through the PS mult... | 01/24/2012 |
| 8101292 | Magnetic storage media with Ag, Au-containing magnetic layers A magnetic recording medium having a Au, Ag-containing magnetic layer having Co, Cr, Ag and Au; the magnetic recording layer having Co-containing magnetic grains surrounded by substantially nonmagnetic Cr-containing grain boundaries; wherein said Ag and said Au are ... | 01/24/2012 |
| 8094664 | Session based communication A user terminal requesting a session establishment although the session already exists, is informed on the existing session in a response to the request. If the user terminal offered in the request one or more media types that were rejected, the response contains an... | 01/10/2012 |
| 8089515 | Method and device for controlling auto focusing of a video camera by tracking a region-of-interest The invention concerns an electronic device equipped with a video imaging process capability, which device includes a camera unit arranged to produce image frames from an imaging view which includes a region-of-interest ROI, an adjustable optics arranged in connecti... | 01/03/2012 |
| 8089390 | Sensor cart positioning system and method A movable platform has a front end, a back end, a longitudinal axis, and at least one axle oriented generally transverse to the longitudinal axis and located between the front and back ends for supporting wheels of the platform. A position sensor is affixed on the p... | 01/03/2012 |
| 8089253 | Power supplies for RF power amplifier Switched-mode power supplies (SMPSs) and their control methods for radio frequency (RF) power amplifiers in battery-powered wireless transmitter devices involve a Boost-type SMPS and a Buck-type SMPS in cascade connection which are controlled so that high efficiency... | 01/03/2012 |
| RE43071 | Data transmission A method and system for large data transfer between a sender and a receiver. The sender transmits to the receiver a plurality of data packets in sequence. The time elapsed for each of the plurality of data packets after transmission of said each of the plurality of ... | 01/03/2012 |
| 8086941 | Computing an error detection code syndrome based on a correction pattern The present invention is all error detection and correction scheme that enables the use of Horner's algorithm for the computation of EDC syndromes from the computed error pattern. Specifically, “transformed” EDC syndromes are computed during the read back of dat... | 12/27/2011 |
