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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 6064792 | Signal recorder with deferred recording A device for recording and playing back a selected episode from an input analog audio-visual signal. A "deferred recording" feature allows the user to briefly delay his/her decision to record a live signal episode until after the signal episode has at lea... | 05/16/2000 |
| 5620471 | System and method for discriminating between atrial and ventricular arrhythmias and for applying cardiac therapy therefor Improved methods and apparatus are provided for applying atrial and ventricular therapies to the heart of a patient using an implanted cardiac stimulating device. Atrial and ventricular heart rates are monitored and analyzed to determine whether the patie... | 04/15/1997 |
| 5605158 | Apparatus for annotating physiological waveforms An apparatus for annotating physiological waveforms is provided. The apparatus comprises an implantable medical device, which may be a pacemaker or a cardioverter/defibrillator, and a programmer for use with the implantable medical device. The implantable... | 02/25/1997 |
| 5601608 | Methods and apparatus for applying charge-balanced antiarrhythmia shocks Methods and apparatus are provided for generating multiphasic charge-balanced cardioversion and defibrillation shocks to apply to a patient's heart to terminate episodes of arrhythmia such as tachycardia and fibrillation. The time-integrated positive shoc... | 02/11/1997 |
| 5598847 | Implantable flow sensor apparatus and method An implantable blood flow sensor for measuring a blood flow rate through a blood vessel within a person's body. The flow sensor includes a rigid cylindrical tube, sized to fit within the blood vessel, a heater attached to the tube, and a pyroelectric dete... | 02/04/1997 |
| 5593430 | Bus system for interconnecting an implantable medical device with a plurality of sensors A two-conductor bus system is provided to electrically interconnect a plurality of physiologic sensors to a pacemaker, each sensor being adapted for placement along a pacing lead. The conductors of the bus extend longitudinally through the insulating mate... | 01/14/1997 |
| 5571163 | Combination pacing and defibrillating lead having atrial sensing capability and method A combination lead for use with an implanted pulse generator which may be a pacemaker or defibrillator or combination thereof. The lead can deliver an electrical charge to pace, cardiovert or defibrillate the ventricles of the heart, and can sense cardiac... | 11/05/1996 |
| 5571157 | Endocardial lead with reduced diameter tip portion and method for making such lead An endocardial lead assembly, adapted to transmit electrical signals between a proximal end portion of the lead assembly and a distal end portion of the assembly and to thereby stimulate selected body tissue, includes at least two coiled, insulatively coa... | 11/05/1996 |
| 5558962 | Aluminum current collector for an electrochemical cell having a solid cathode The electrochemical cell includes an electrode structure having an aluminum current collector in combination with an active cathode material containing polycarbon monofluoride. The electrode structure also includes a polymeric separator and a lithium anod... | 09/24/1996 |
| 5557967 | Thermopile flow sensor A flow sensor adapted for placement along a pacing lead or other catheter comprises a thermopile formed on the outer surface of a tubular substrate. The thermopile comprises a plurality of interconnected conductors of an alternating metal type. Junctions ... | 09/24/1996 |
| 5549646 | Periodic electrical lead intergrity testing system and method for implantable cardiac stimulating devices A periodic electrical lead integrity testing system is provided which periodically tests electrical leads used with an implantable cardiac stimulating device. The system is especially advantageous in multi-functional implantable cardiac stimulating device... | 08/27/1996 |
| 5545201 | Bipolar active fixation lead for sensing and pacing the heart An implantable bipolar pacing lead having a bipolar active fixation electrode for use with a cardiac pacemaker. The bipolar active fixation electrode may include a pair of coaxial electrodes, separated by an intermediate insulator, formed into the shape o... | 08/13/1996 |
| 5545203 | Crush resistant multi-conductor lead body An implantable pacing lead having a flexible insulative material injected into the passageway accommodating the electrical conductor(s) to encapsulate the conductor(s) for at least the portion of the lead body most subject to physical damage to in the lea... | 08/13/1996 |
| 5509927 | Programming system having means for recording and analyzing a patient's cardiac signal A programming system is provided that allows a physician or medical personnel to optimize the settings of various arrhythmia detection criteria and/or parameters related to hemodynamic performance to be programmed into the implanted cardiac stimulating de... | 04/23/1996 |
| 5487754 | Method and apparatus for reporting and displaying a sequential series of pacing events An implantable pacemaker continuously records pacing events and their respective rates of occurrence in sequence, as they occur, into an Event Record stored in a circular buffer. The circular buffer always contains the most recent events and rates collect... | 01/30/1996 |
| 5487755 | Methods for displaying a sequential series of pacing events An implantable pacemaker continuously records pacing events and their respective rates of occurrence in sequence, as they occur, into an Event Record stored in a circular buffer. The circular buffer always contains the most recent events and rates collect... | 01/30/1996 |
| 5476488 | Telemetry system power control for implantable medical devices During the telemetering of telemetry signals between an implantable medical device and an external programmer, the transmitter power of the implantable device is dynamically adjusted. The programmer measures the strength of the telemetry signals transmitt... | 12/19/1995 |
| 5476503 | Sense array intelligent patch lead for an implantable defibrillator and method An intelligent patch electrode having a plurality of sensor electrodes for use with an implantable defibrillator. The sensor electrodes are disposed in an array and connected to a microcircuit to sense a depolarization wave as it propagates through the ve... | 12/19/1995 |
| 5466253 | Crush resistant multi-conductor lead body An implantable pacing lead having a flexible insulative material injected into the passageway accommodating the electrical conductor(s) to encapsulate the conductor(s) for at least the portion of the lead body most subject to physical damage to in the lea... | 11/14/1995 |
| 5456692 | System and method for noninvasively altering the function of an implanted pacemaker A system and method for safely altering the function of an implanted pacemaker in a noninvasive manner includes an implantable programmable pacemaker and a non-implantable programming device. The pacemaker includes a pulse generator that generates stimula... | 10/10/1995 |
| 5456691 | Programming system having multiple program modules A programming system is provided in which a control program for an implantable medical device is constructed from program modules that are selected by a physician. Only the selected modules are loaded into the memory of the implantable medical device, eac... | 10/10/1995 |
| 5431681 | Combination pacing and defibrillating lead having sensing capability A lead, for use in combination with an implanted pulse generator which may be a pacemaker or defibrillator or combination thereof. The lead can deliver an electrical charge to pace, cardiovert or defibrillate the heart, and can sense cardiac activity in t... | 07/11/1995 |
