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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7043305 | Method and apparatus for establishing context among events and optimizing implanted medical device performance An apparatus and method for adjusting the performance of an implanted device based on data including contextual information. Contextual information, including operational and performance data concerning the implanted device as well as the patient with the implanted ... | 05/09/2006 |
| 7041061 | Method and apparatus for quantification of cardiac wall motion asynchrony A phase analysis technique provides for quantification of regional wall motion asynchrony from endocardial border contours generated from two-dimensional echocardiographic ventricular images. The technique produces results including a degree of radial ventricular as... | 05/09/2006 |
| 7037260 | Method and apparatus for determining attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) medication dosage and for monitoring the effects of ADHD medication on people who have ADHD using complementary tests A method for determining the appropriate dosage of a medication to treat Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) in an individual who has ADHD. The method comprises sampling the peripheral skin temperature of left and right like extremities of an individual ... | 05/02/2006 |
| 7039455 | Apparatus and method for removing magnetic resonance imaging-induced noise from ECG signals An apparatus and method is provided for improving the quality of electrocardiogram (ECG) signals obtained from a patient undergoing magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) wherein the ECG signal has relatively high levels of noise or interference voltages induced on it by ... | 05/02/2006 |
| 7038601 | Artifact removal from an electric signal The invention relates to a method and apparatus for suppressing interference in an electric signal, particularly for suppressing interference in an electrocardiogram (ECG) signal in connection with magnetic resonance imaging (MRI). In order to improve the accuracy o... | 05/02/2006 |
| 7039463 | Discrimination of supraventricular tachycardia and ventricular tachycardia events A method and system for discrimination of supraventricular tachycardia and ventricular tachycardia events. Morphological features points are extracted from normal sinus rhythm (NSR) complexes and used to generate a NSR template. A numerical convolution is performed ... | 05/02/2006 |
| 7039467 | Therapeutic device and method for treating diseases of cardiac muscle An apparatus and method for conferring a therapeutic current to the heart is provided. The apparatus includes a first electrode, a second electrode, a current generator and a controller. The apparatus may further include a sensor. The sensor is generally configured ... | 05/02/2006 |
| 7031973 | Accounting for references between a client and server that use disparate e-mail storage formats In one exemplary implementation, a client receives a record from a server. The record has a server identification key that uniquely identifies the record from any other records. If the record is viewable by a user in one or more folders, there are corresponding one ... | 04/18/2006 |
| 7029470 | Ablation system and method of use A system and method for creating lesions and assessing their completeness or transmurality. Assessment of transmurality of a lesion is accomplished by monitoring the depolarization signal in a local electrogram taken using electrodes located adjacent the tissue to b... | 04/18/2006 |
| 7031963 | Green ice printout sorting and delivery program An apparatus for and method of utilizing an internet terminal coupled to the world wide web to access an existing proprietary data base management system having a dialog-based request format. The user request is received by a web server from the world wide web and c... | 04/18/2006 |
| 7031764 | Cardiac rhythm management systems and methods using multiple morphology templates for discriminating between rhythms Multiple morphology templates for discliminating between rhythms have been used, such as supraventricular tachyarrhythmias (SVTs) and ventricular tachyarrhythmias (VTs), for delivering a countershock in response to a VT episode, but withholding delivery of such a co... | 04/18/2006 |
| 7031766 | Methods and devices for determining exercise diagnostic parameters A device, such as an implantable cardiac device, and methods for determining exercise diagnostic parameters of a patient are disclosed. Specifically, a maximum observed heart rate of a patient during exercise can be identified when an activity level and a heart rate... | 04/18/2006 |
| 7027862 | Apparatus and method for transmitting an electrical signal in an implantable medical device A method and device for transmitting a signal in an implantable medical device that includes a control unit and a first electrode and a second electrode positioned along a lead body. A connector block is positioned along an upper portion of a housing portion of the ... | 04/11/2006 |
| 7027864 | Defibrillation system and method designed for rapid attachment A defibrillator having a pair of electrodes for delivering an impedance-compensated defibrillation shock and a method thereof is provided. The defibrillator can be deployed rapidly and effectively with no or minimal clothing and hair removal. To achieve this, one el... | 04/11/2006 |
| 7027872 | Variable encryption scheme for data transfer between medical devices and related data management systems The present invention provides for an encryption apparatus, system, and method in which data from an Implantable Medical Device (IMD) and a data center could be transferred based on a differentiated encryption system. The encryption scheme allows for the differentia... | 04/11/2006 |
| 7025729 | Apparatus for detecting sleep apnea using electrocardiogram signals There is provided a method of determining a diagnostic measure of sleep apnea including the following steps: acquiring an electrocardiogram signal, calculating a set of RR intervals and electrocardiogram-derived respiratory signal from said electrocardiogram, and he... | 04/11/2006 |
| 7022070 | Method for continuous monitoring of patients to detect the potential onset of sepsis A method of screening for possible onset of sepsis in a patient includes providing the patient with a transducer that automatically and periodically measures a first physiological parameter of the patient and transmits a first signal that is encoded with the measure... | 04/04/2006 |
| 7024244 | Estimation of stroke volume cardiac output using an intracardiac pressure sensor Techniques are described for estimating a rate of blood flow from a heart, such as a stroke volume or a cardiac output, as a function of a pressure in the heart. A pressure monitor may measure pressure values, and identify the times at which pressure values and valv... | 04/04/2006 |
| 7020508 | Apparatus for detecting human physiological and contextual information A detecting apparatus includes a housing support section(s), a housing removably attached thereto, one or more sensors and a processor. An alternate apparatus measures heat flux and includes a known resistivity base member, a processing unit and two temperature meas... | 03/28/2006 |
| 7020514 | Method of and apparatus for detecting atrial fibrillation A method and apparatus to determine possible atrial fibrillation that includes detecting irregular pulse rhythms from a succession of time intervals each corresponding to a respective interval of time between successive pulse beats of a sequence of the pulse beats; ... | 03/28/2006 |
| 7018339 | Method for processing heart rate information in a portable computer An apparatus and method for processing heart rate information by wirelessly transferring the information between a heart rate monitor and a personal computer device (PCD). The information includes programming information and heart rate or training information collec... | 03/28/2006 |
| 7016719 | System and methods for noninvasive electrocardiographic imaging (ECGI) using generalized minimum residual (GMRes) Methods and systems for computing epicardial surface electric potentials based on measured body surface electric potentials, where the methods and systems include representing at least one geometric relationship between at least one body surface electric potential m... | 03/21/2006 |
| 7015701 | Highly time resolved impedance spectroscopy A highly time resolved impedance spectroscopy enhances measurement of the dynamics of non-stationary systems with enhanced time resolution. The highly time resolved impedance spectroscopy includes an optimized, frequency rich a.c., or transient, voltage signal is us... | 03/21/2006 |
| 7013178 | Implantable medical device communication system An implantable medical device communication system communicates information between an implantable medical device and at least one slave device by way of a two-wire bus. Slave devices may include remote sensors and other implantable medical devices. The implantable ... | 03/14/2006 |
| 7013175 | Systems and methods for assessing and modifying an individual's physiological condition Systems and methods for assessing an individual's physiological condition are provided. Cycle and shape parameters are derived from a recorded time trace containing heart rate data collected while an individual performs a cyclic exercise routine. Individually tailor... | 03/14/2006 |
| 7013174 | Electromagnetic interference immune tissue invasive system An electromagnetic immune tissue invasive system includes a primary device housing. The primary device housing having a control circuit therein. A shielding is formed around the primary device housing to shield the primary device housing and any circuits therein fro... | 03/14/2006 |
| 7011630 | Methods for computing rolling analyte measurement values, microprocessors comprising programming to control performance of the methods, and analyte monitoring devices employing the methods The present invention relates to methods to increase the number of analyte-related signals used to provide analyte measurement values, e.g., when two or more analyte-related signals are used to obtain a single analyte measurement value a “rolling” value based on... | 03/14/2006 |
| 7010349 | System and method for detecting and displaying parameter interactions A system and method of detecting and displaying parameter interactions. A medical device system has a medical device and a programming interface, wherein the medical device includes a plurality of features which can be programmed via the programming interface. A plu... | 03/07/2006 |
| 7010149 | Method and system of fusion of two digital radiographic images A method of fusion of a first digital radiographic image obtained as a result of scanning with a second digital radiographic image obtained by magnetic resonance imaging (MRI). A CT interval of gray levels is selected first in the scanner image. Each pixel of the sc... | 03/07/2006 |
| 7006862 | Graphical user interfaces and methods for retrospectively gating a set of images Graphical user interfaces and methods for displaying ECG, slice images and a reconstruction projection image of the slices. In exemplary embodiments, the graphical user interfaces and methods facilitate the selection of slice images that are taken during a quiet par... | 02/28/2006 |
| 7001338 | System and method for diagnosing pathologic heart conditions A method of diagnosing pathologic heart conditions in which a time series of heart sounds is filtered and parsed into a sequence of individual heart cycles. A systolic interval as well as systolic sub-intervals are identified for each heart cycle. The systolic inter... | 02/21/2006 |
| 7003348 | Monitoring cardiac geometry for diagnostics and therapy An exemplary method includes determining, in vivo, position, displacement and/or spatial time derivatives of myocardial tissue. Such determinations are optionally made with respect to systolic and/or diastolic cycles. Further, position, displacement and/or spatial t... | 02/21/2006 |
| 7001415 | Transmural ablation device A method and apparatus for transmural ablation using an instrument containing two electrodes or cryogenic probes. A clamping force is exerted on the two electrodes or probes such that the tissue of the hollow organ is clamped therebetween. Bipolar RF energy is then ... | 02/21/2006 |
| 7001336 | Method for treating ischemia A method and apparatus for improving blood flow to an ischemic region (e.g., myocardial ischemia) a patient is provided. An ultrasonic transducer is positioned proximate to the ischemic region. Ultrasonic energy is applied at a frequency at or above 1 MHz to create ... | 02/21/2006 |
| 6997882 | 6-DOF subject-monitoring device and method The present invention comprises novel methods and devices for monitoring a subject by acquiring reliable and accurate 6-DOF data regarding the subject, and by using those data to obtain information about the subject's movements in three-dimensional space. Informatio... | 02/14/2006 |
| 6996434 | Method and system for verifying the integrity of normal sinus rhythm templates A method and system for verifying the integrity of normal sinus rhythm (NSR) templates and updating the NSR template after selected time intervals. At selected time intervals after establishing a NSR template, cardiac complexes are sensed and values for one or more ... | 02/07/2006 |
| 6994676 | Method and apparatus for assessing ventricular contractile status Methods and devices for improving ventricular contractile status of a patient suitably exploit changes in ventricular pressure and/or dP/dtmax to provide and/or optimize a response to a patient. The ventricular pressure may be appropriately correlated to ... | 02/07/2006 |
| 6994094 | Method and device for transseptal facilitation based on injury patterns A method for performing a procedure at the fossa ovalis in the septal wall of the heart includes the steps of providing a sheath having a body wherein the body has a lumen extending therethrough and an open end at the distal end of the body. The body also has at lea... | 02/07/2006 |
| 6993458 | Method and apparatus for preprocessing technique for forecasting in capacity management, software rejuvenation and dynamic resource allocation applications A system and method preprocesses data, in a computer system where forecasting of computing resources is performed based on past and present observations of measurements related to the resources. The preprocessing includes decomposing the past and present observation... | 01/31/2006 |
| 6993384 | Apparatus and method for determining the relative position and orientation of neurostimulation leads Interelectrode impedance or electric field potential measurements are used to determine the relative orientation of one lead to other leads in the spinal column or other body/tissue location. Interelectrode impedance is determined by measuring impedance vectors. The... | 01/31/2006 |
