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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7603177 | Applying filter information to identify combinations of electrodes A programming device compares filter information to information that describes possible combinations of the electrodes within an electrode set implanted in a patient. The filter information describes at least one characteristic of valid, e.g., desired, electrode com... | 10/13/2009 |
| 7584002 | Aggregation of data from external data sources within an implantable medical device An implantable device is described that collects and aggregates data from non-implanted medical devices external from a body of a patient. The device may also collect and aggregate data from medical devices implanted within the body. The implantable device includes ... | 09/01/2009 |
| 7561921 | Neurostimulator programmer with internal antenna In general, the invention is directed to a patient programmer for an implantable medical device. The patient programmer may include one or more of a variety of features that may enhance performance, support mobility and compactness, or promote patient convenience. F... | 07/14/2009 |
| 7548786 | Library for management of neurostimulation therapy programs An implantable medical device delivers neurostimulation therapy to a patient according to a parameter set. A parameter set may consist of a number of programs that are delivered substantially simultaneously. When programming the implantable medical device for the pa... | 06/16/2009 |
| 7529588 | Method and apparatus to backup, update and share data among implantable cardiac stimulation device programmers A system is provided for backing up and synchronizing data stored within a set of programmers used for programming implantable cardiac stimulation devices such as pacemakers or implantable cardioverter defibrillators (ICDs). The data from the programmers that is bac... | 05/05/2009 |
| 7526341 | Amplitude ramping of waveforms generated by an implantable medical device The present invention automates the adjustment of an amplitude of stimulated pulses that are generated by an implanted device. Apparatus comprises a processor that communicates with the implanted device over a communications channel through a communications module. ... | 04/28/2009 |
| 7460912 | System and method for temporary programming for implanted medical devices A system and method for temporary programming of an implantable medical device. The system and method include a repeater uploading temporary programming and instructions to a temporary memory of the device and then instructing the device to operate according to the ... | 12/02/2008 |
| 7457668 | Method and device for remote and nonconnected implementation of an implant and implant implemented by said device A method for remote and nonconnected interaction between an implant having an electrical motor and a transmitter/receiver inverter having an induction source having/connected to a power source for operating the electrical motor including creating modifications in an... | 11/25/2008 |
| 7418295 | Method and system for identifying and displaying groups of cardiac arrhythmic episodes A medical device system that receives cardiac data representing a plurality of stored arrhythmic episodes, and analyzing the cardiac data to identify and display a subset of stored arrhythmic episodes as a function of user-specified episode criteria. The medical dev... | 08/26/2008 |
| 7373206 | Failsafe programming of implantable medical devices A watchdog unit receives stay-alive signals from a programming device during programming of an implantable medical device. The watchdog unit maintains a watchdog timer, and resets the timer upon receipt of each stay-alive signal. If the watchdog timer expires, the w... | 05/13/2008 |
| 7369897 | Method and system of remotely controlling electrical pulses provided to nerve tissue(s) by an implanted stimulator system for neuromodulation therapies A method and system of remotely controlling an implanted stimulator for providing electrical pulses to nerve tissue, comprises an implantable stimulator, an interface unit, and a mobile device such as a modified PDA/cell phone (or pocket PC/cell phone). The implante... | 05/06/2008 |
| 7369893 | Method and apparatus for identifying lead-related conditions using prediction and detection criteria A method for delivering therapy in a medical device that includes a two-tiered approach of determining the presence of a lead-related condition, and determining, in response to a lead-related condition being present, the presence of oversensing. Deliver of therapy b... | 05/06/2008 |
| 7366570 | Method and a system for using implanted medical device data for accessing therapies A method and system facilitates the access by a patient of implanted medical device related data for patient participation in their own clinical care and therapy. In an example embodiment, the method includes establishing a communications link between an implanted m... | 04/29/2008 |
| 7366569 | Non-invasive method and apparatus for cardiac pacemaker pacing parameter optimization and monitoring of cardiac dysfunction A plethysmogram signal is sensed from a patient and provided to a programmer device for monitoring the condition of the patient and for optimizing pacing parameters of a cardiac device implanted in the patient. The programmer device analyzes the plethysmogram signal... | 04/29/2008 |
| 7359751 | Clinician programmer for use with trial stimulator Disclosed are systems and methods which provide an external clinician interface, such as through the use of a laptop computer or a personal digital assistant (PDA). The foregoing clinician interface may be used with trial stimulators well suited for use interoperati... | 04/15/2008 |
| 7333013 | Medical implant device with RFID tag and method of identification of device The present invention is directed a method of making an interactive medical implant device including a radio frequency identification tag mounted to an implant, the tag being covered with a liquid impermeable seal. Identification of the RFID tag allows the physician... | 02/19/2008 |
| 7330763 | Method for securing the operating system in a handheld medical device and apparatus A method includes disabling a synchronization mechanism of a handheld device and disabling one or more hardware buttons on the handheld device. The method also includes removing user access to one or more settings on the handheld device. In addition, the method incl... | 02/12/2008 |
| 7330762 | Method and system for providing pulsed electrical stimulation to provide therapy for erectile/sexual dysfunction, prostatitis, prostatitis pain, and chronic pelvic pain A method and system for providing pulse electrical stimulation to at least one of sacral plexus or its branches or portions, inferior hypogastric plexus or its branches or portions, superior hypogastric plexus or its branches or portions in a patient, to provide the... | 02/12/2008 |
| 7324850 | Method and apparatus for communication between a handheld programmer and an implantable medical device Systems and methods for telemetric communication between a handheld programmer and an implantable medical device are disclosed. A preferred embodiment comprises a user-friendly, color, touch-sensitive screen that allows the user to visually observe and control the h... | 01/29/2008 |
| 7321792 | Pacing therapy and acupuncture Exemplary methods, devices and/or systems for detecting one or more needs and for requesting the delivery of power to one or more acupoints. Other methods, devices and/or systems are also disclosed. ... | 01/22/2008 |
| 7317948 | Neural stimulation system providing auto adjustment of stimulus output as a function of sensed impedance A neural stimulation system automatically corrects or adjusts the stimulus magnitude (stimulation energy) in order to maintain a comfortable and effective stimulation therapy. Because the changes in impedance associated with the electrode-tissue interface can indica... | 01/08/2008 |
| 7313443 | Method and apparatus for hardware/firmware trap The operation of an implantable medical device executing at least one set of firmware code is modified using a hardware/firmware trap at a point of execution of the set of firmware code. A patch code for directing the implantable medical device to perform a particul... | 12/25/2007 |
| 7292889 | Gastric stimulator apparatus and method for use Apparatus and method for stimulating neuromuscular tissue in the stomach. The neuromuscular stimulator stimulates the neuromuscular tissue by applying current-controlled electrical pulses. A voltage sensor detects the voltage across the neuromuscular tissue to deter... | 11/06/2007 |
| 7289853 | High frequency wireless pacemaker A wireless communications system optimizes performance by dividing communications functionality between a wireless pacemaker and a wireless monitoring base station according to the design constraints imposed by the system elements. Typical design constraints include... | 10/30/2007 |
| 7288066 | Data compression method for implantable medical devices A method of data compression of physiological signals for use in implantable medical devices (IMDs) in which temporal information in the input data points is retained in the compressed sample points with a potential loss of amplitude precision. The data compression ... | 10/30/2007 |
| 7289761 | Systems, devices, and methods for selectively preventing data transfer from a medical device Systems and methods provide for the selective prevention of data transfer from a medical device to allow the patient to have privacy when desired. Theses systems and methods provide medical devices that can be instructed in various ways to stop recording data and/or... | 10/30/2007 |
| 7289848 | Implantable cardiac stimulation device, system and method which provides an electrogram signal having the appearance of a surface electrocardiogram An implantable cardiac stimulation system and method provides an external display of a heart activity signal sensed internally by an implantable cardiac stimulation device which has the appearance of a surface EKG. The heart activity signal is sensed by the implante... | 10/30/2007 |
| 7283863 | Method and apparatus for identifying cardiac and non-cardiac oversensing using intracardiac electrograms A method and apparatus for automatically identifying various types of cardiac and non-cardiac oversensing is provided. EGM data, including time intervals between sensed and paced events and signal morphologies, are analyzed for patterns indicative of various types o... | 10/16/2007 |
| 7277752 | System for cardiac resuscitation A system and method for monitoring and controlling the therapy of a cardiac rhythm abnormality victim at a remote site by proving immediate access to a medical professional at a central station. The method comprises the steps of: (1) providing a plurality of electro... | 10/02/2007 |
| 7277814 | Portable diagnostic handset A portable diagnostic device. The portable diagnostic device includes a housing, a processor located within the housing, an input device located on the housing and coupled to the processor, and a display screen located on the housing and coupled to the processor. Th... | 10/02/2007 |
| 7272444 | Medical device interface system with automatic rate threshold adjustment A medical device programmer automatically adjusts parameters to be programmed to a medical device in response to a user modifying related parameters. Slide controllers on the programmer display screen can adjust parameters. In response to slide controller movement, ... | 09/18/2007 |
| 7272445 | Medical device programmer with faceplate In general, the invention is directed to a patient programmer for an implantable medical device. The patient programmer may include one or more of a variety of features that may enhance performance, support mobility and compactness, or promote patient convenience. | 09/18/2007 |
| 7266412 | Generation of multiple neurostimulation therapy programs Generation of multiple neurostimulation programs for delivery of neurostimulation therapy to a patient involves generation of a base program and one or more patient condition algorithms. The base program is modified according to specific algorithms associated with t... | 09/04/2007 |
| 7263405 | System and method for providing electrical pulses to the vagus nerve(s) to provide therapy for obesity, eating disorders, neurological and neuropsychiatric disorders with a stimulator, comprising bi-directional communication and network capabilities A system and method for providing pulsed electrical stimulation to one or both vagus nerve(s) of a patient to provide therapy for obesity, eating disorders, neurological and neuropsychiatric disorders. The electrical pulses can be provided either unilaterally or bil... | 08/28/2007 |
| 7263402 | System and method of rapid, comfortable parameter switching in spinal cord stimulation A system and method for rapidly switching stimulation parameters of a Spinal Cord Stimulation (SCS) system increases the number of stimulation parameter sets that may be tested during a fitting procedure, or alternatively, reduces the time required for the fitting p... | 08/28/2007 |
| 7257447 | Method and apparatus for indication-based programming of cardiac rhythm management devices A cardiac rhythm management (CRM) system includes a programming device that determines parameters for programming an implantable medical device based on patient-specific information including indications for use of the implantable medical device. By executing an ind... | 08/14/2007 |
| 7252090 | Selection of neurostimulator parameter configurations using neural network In general, the invention is directed to a technique for selection of parameter configurations for a neurostimulator using neural networks. The technique may be employed by a programming device to allow a clinician to select parameter configurations, and then progra... | 08/07/2007 |
| 7254444 | Electrical nerve stimulation device The electrical nerve stimulation unit in accordance with the present invention generally includes a housing, an input panel, a display panel, a controller, a first channel output, a second channel output, and a power system. While the device is generally described i... | 08/07/2007 |
| 7254445 | Multiprogrammable tissue stimulator and method An electronic stimulation system is used to control pain over multiple regions of a patient's body. The system has one or more percutaneous leads, each having multiple electrodes, implanted within the patient's epidural space parallel to the axis of the spinal cord.... | 08/07/2007 |
| 7248917 | Self treatment device An assembly for the purpose of self-treatment by electromagnetic waves. The assembly includes a transmitting coil arranged to transmit electromagnetic waves, the transmitting coil comprising a case in which an electromagnetic coil is accommodated. The coil is connec... | 07/24/2007 |