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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7363078 | Intracardiac polarization signal stabilization Polarization signals, which represent voltages measured at a pacemaker electrode, are not constant and may drift. Polarization signal drift, which often precedes undesirable pace polarization artifacts, is more significant when the pacemaker is inhibited from provid... | 04/22/2008 |
| 7310550 | Electrocardiograph and display method for electrocardiograph A portable electrocardiograph having a display function and method is disclosed. In measuring an electrocardiographic waveform, an electrocardiograph (1) is held in position by a grip including a negative electrode (14) while simultaneously pressing a ... | 12/18/2007 |
| 7197357 | Wireless ECG system A cardiac monitoring system and, more particularly, a wireless electrocardiograph (ECG) system. The present invention detects electrical signals from a patient's heart and transmits the signals digitally to a remote base station via telemetry. The base station conve... | 03/27/2007 |
| 7139362 | Computer tomograph comprising energy discriminating detectors The invention relates to a computer tomograph comprising a detector unit (2) consisting of a plurality of detectors (1) for identifying X-ray radiation (40). According to the invention, the individual detectors (1) of the detector unit ( | 11/21/2006 |
| 7043372 | Fluid condition monitoring using broad spectrum impedance spectroscopy Impedance spectroscopy is used to determine values associated with properties of a substance such as a fluid. In some embodiments, the present invention is applied to engine lubricants. A spectral matrix is constructed that comprises data taken from spectral plots. ... | 05/09/2006 |
| 6957217 | System and method for selectively providing information to a user device A system and method for selectively providing information to a user device includes an event server that provides restricted access to various types of event content information and services related to a particular event. A wireless portable user device may provide ... | 10/18/2005 |
| 6957101 | Transient event mapping in the heart A method for performing a medical procedure is provided, including recording geometric information at a plurality of time points in a plurality of cardiac cycles of a heart of a subject. Subsequently, a transient event is detected that is produced at a location on t... | 10/18/2005 |
| 6793625 | Method and apparatus for concurrently displaying respective images representing real-time data and non real-time data A method and apparatus for concurrently displaying respective images representing real-time data and non-real-time data operates by receiving non-real-time data and receiving real-time data. A windowing operating system is executed for controlling the operation of a... | 09/21/2004 |
| 6694179 | Display for and method of displaying electrograms received from an implantable cardiac stimulation device A display displays electrical activity of a heart. A receiver receives an electrical signal representing the electrical activity of a heart. The electrical signal includes event markers identifying occurrences of at least one type of cardiac event represe... | 02/17/2004 |
| 6675044 | Software-based record management system with access to time-line ordered clinical data acquired by an implanted device A software-based medical data record management system includes access to time-line ordered clinical data acquired/stored by at least one implanted device. The system enables data management categorized in relation to the time cardiac episodes and events ... | 01/06/2004 |
| 6583796 | Method and apparatus for displaying information retrieved from an implanted medical device A graphical user interface is provided controllably displaying information retrieved from an implantable device, such as a pacemaker. The graphical user interface is comprised of a first and second window. The first window is adapted to display data ident... | 06/24/2003 |
| 5785043 | Method of creating a report showing the time correlation between recorded medical events A method for displaying time-correlated medical event data including the steps of: providing time-correlated event data to a display device; selecting a first event to be displayed; and displaying the first event together with a time-correlated second eve... | 07/28/1998 |
| 5776056 | Health self-checking system using remote controller and television and method thereof A health self-checking system using a remote controller and a television and a method thereof, capable of easily checking a user's health using a remote controller and a television by checking user's heart rate and R-wave form, which includes a health che... | 07/07/1998 |
| 5718234 | Physiological data communication system The present invention provides for a communication system for conveying biomedical data between a plurality of patient monitors and a centralized base station. The communication system includes a plurality of base transceivers within the base station. Eac... | 02/17/1998 |
| 5673702 | Method and apparatus for the improved electronic display of physiologic waveforms Method and apparatus for improved electronic display and interpretation of physiologic waveforms. The apparatus generates a two-dimensional grid on the video screen simulating the appearance of electrocardiographic recording paper or other physiologic sig... | 10/07/1997 |
| 5622178 | System and method for dynamically displaying cardiac interval data using scatter-plots A system and method for the dynamic display of scatter-plot data uses a color monitor or gray-scale monitor to indicate the relative frequency of occurrences of interval pairs corresponding to the scatter-plot data. A variety of user selectable analysis a... | 04/22/1997 |
| 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 |
| 5529073 | Method and apparatus for recording physiologic signals A medical monitor, such as a fetal monitor, records physiologic signals representing the same physiologic parameter, but originating from different beings, such as the heart rate traces originating from two fetuses, in particular twins. In case the two si... | 06/25/1996 |
| 5339824 | Memory loop ECG recorder with LIFO data transmission A memory loop recorder records electrocardiographic data in a random access memory for transmission to a remote display terminal via telephone line. The ECG data in the loops is transmitted in reverse time-order to the display from a point related to the ... | 08/23/1994 |
| 5284152 | Method for displaying superimposed heartbeat waveforms A computer controls a video display having a display screen for displaying ECG heartbeats superimposed over one another. The ECG data is collected during Holter monitoring and stored in a memory. A plurality of successive heartbeats are written to the dis... | 02/08/1994 |
| 5253650 | Apparatus for recording an electrocardiogram The apparatus for recording an electrocardiogram capable of displaying a change of spike intervals of adjacent QRS groups among a plurality of QRS groups of an electrocardiographic wave, the apparatus capable of displaying a time change of an electric pot... | 10/19/1993 |
| 5206807 | Neonatal cardiorespirograph incorporating multi-variable display and memory A system and method for transducing, recording, and displaying information relating to cardiac and respiratory functions of an infant. The system and method allows immediate detection of apnea events and of bradycardia associated therewith, as well as pre... | 04/27/1993 |
| 5115567 | Electric plaster cast saw control system An electric plastic cast saw control system for cutting off of plastic cast composed of an inner layer of absorbent cotton and an outer layer formed by hardened covering material including a thin conductive plate placed between the inner layer and the out... | 05/26/1992 |
| 4989610 | Method and system of ECG data review and analysis A method and computerized system for ECG data review and analysis are provided. In preferred embodiments, a transformation is performed on beat data and the transformed data are categorized into beat "bins." The clinician/user may select sensitivity to va... | 02/05/1991 |
| 4858617 | Cardiac probe enabling use of personal computer for monitoring heart activity or the like A compact and economical probe unit has projecting electrodes for sensing minute voltage variations at spaced apart locations on a persons skin or other surface. Internal circuits generate serial form digital signals indicative of the voltage variations f... | 08/22/1989 |
| 4769760 | Terrain biased dynamic multiple threshold synchronization method and apparatus The method and device of the present invention is for synchronizing periodic signals. The method is comprised of the steps of obtaining input signals to be synchronized, delineating a plurality of terrain biased, dynamic threshold points, detecting the ti... | 09/06/1988 |
| 4754762 | EKG monitoring system An audio-visual EKG monitoring system that segments components of the patient's EKG waveform and synthesizes a plurality of audio driving signals, each representing peak values of the segmented components, and also derives similar peak value signals for d... | 07/05/1988 |
| 4743966 | Endoscope apparatus for imaging internal portions of a patient's body An endoscope device according to the present invention includes an endoscope used to pick up images at an object portion in a body cavity that is pulsating at irregular rates and is illuminated by a light source, a memory device for storing the date of pi... | 05/10/1988 |
| 4729381 | Living body information recorder An apparatus for effecting automatic repetitive detection of items of living body information, such as blood pressure, heart rate and breathing rate, and for automatically recording the detected living body information in a predetermined two dimensional c... | 03/08/1988 |
| 4667682 | Cardiac ambulatory monitor An ambulatory arrhythmia detection and ECG recorder senses both tachycardia and bradycardia conditions and activates a tape recorder to record the ECG for a period of 15 seconds after an arrhythmia is detected. Tachycardia and bradycardia conditions are s... | 05/26/1987 |
| 4606352 | Personal electrocardiogram monitor A pocket-sized, self-contained electrocardiogram monitor with a dot-matrix, liquid-crystal display. The monitor uses dry electrodes and is suitable for direct placement against the patient's chest without the use of paste or gel to insure electrical conta... | 08/19/1986 |
| 4537202 | Device for displaying electrical signals of the periodic and/or synchronizable type A device for displaying an electrical signal of the periodic and/or synchronizable type. The main characteristic of this device is that it comprises: a memory in which this electrical signal is sequentially memorized; a recognition circuit for recognizing a predete... | 08/27/1985 |
| 4528988 | Method and apparatus for displaying electrocardiographic signals An improved system for displaying annotated physiological signals processes the signals for two dimensional display on an oscilloscope, for annotation with time-of-day and patient information, and for marking relative to a plurality of detected, abnormal ... | 07/16/1985 |
| 4483347 | Method and apparatus for displaying electrocardiographic signals An improved system for displaying annotated physiological signals processes the signals for two-dimensional display on an oscilloscope, for annotation with time-of-day and patient information, and for marking relative to a plurality of detected, abnormal ... | 11/20/1984 |
| 4414981 | Electrocardiograph computer display system A computer controlled method and apparatus for displaying an electrocardiograph utilizes a computer to store and display multiple channels of an ECG signal and to develop an AVSEP and arrhythmic display. A video ECG signal is stored in memory and the R wa... | 11/15/1983 |
| 4413630 | Sector scanner display and recording system for ultrasonic diagnosis Improvements are disclosed in an ultrasonic display and recording system of the type utilized in diagnostic medicine with particular applicability in cardiovascular diagnosis. The system includes a multi-element transducer for generating and receiving ult... | 11/08/1983 |
| 4340065 | Method and apparatus for displaying electrocardiogram signals An apparatus and method for displaying ECG signals in a format which permits simple and rapid detection of abnormalities in the heart beat. This method and apparatus is particularly suitable for reviewing, at an accelerated rate, heart beat information re... | 07/20/1982 |
| 4331962 | Device for gating a blanking bar into a recording of analog signals A gating device which may be used with an image recording apparatus in connection with patient monitoring. The device gates a blanking bar with a recording of analogue signals on the picture screen of an oscilloscope.... | 05/25/1982 |
| 4325385 | Patient monitoring equipment Patient monitoring equipment is disclosed comprising a base unit incorporating an oscilloscope and having connection means for a patient derived ECG signal source, and a plurality of monitoring modules each having means for connection with another signal ... | 04/20/1982 |
| 4292977 | Method and device for representing electrical spatial lines and spatial images Method and device for representing electrical spatial curves and spatial images of electrically reproduced ultrasonic images, X-ray images or cardiac vector loops, which includes separately storing in an electronic memory coordinates of action currents oc... | 10/06/1981 |
