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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7617001 | Systems and method for communicating with implantable devices Systems and methods for communicating with an implant within a patient's body using acoustic telemetry includes an external communications device attachable to the patient's skin. The device includes an acoustic transducer for transmitting acoustic signals into the ... | 11/10/2009 |
| 7613522 | Multi-antenna for an implantable medical device A system for enabling telemetry in implantable medical devices is provided. An implantable medical device has device having radio-frequency telemetry capabilities. The device includes a housing and electronic circuitry contained within the housing. The device also i... | 11/03/2009 |
| 7613521 | Telemetry for a battery operated device The present invention relates to a wireless handheld device that is configured to communicate with an implanted device using inductive telemetry. The handheld device is preferably battery operated and includes a battery powered controller and a battery powered induc... | 11/03/2009 |
| 7610099 | Method of processing telemetry signals in an implantable medical device including a telemetry processor An implantable medical device with a main processor also has a telemetry processor to perform some telemetry processing functions resulting under some circumstances in reducing demands on the main processor, conserving energy, increasing telemetry processing speed, ... | 10/27/2009 |
| 7593776 | Flexible communication and control protocol for a wireless sensor and microstimulator network A novel system and method for restoring functional movement of a paralyzed limb(s) or a prosthetic device. Stimulating one or more muscles of a patient using an implanted neuromuscular implants and sensing the response of the stimulated muscle by the implants, where... | 09/22/2009 |
| 7587246 | Implantable device with flexible interconnect to coil An implant for implantation into a person. The implant includes a hermetically sealed housing enclosing electrical circuitry. A first coil is flexibly coupled to the housing such that the first coil is external to the housing and capable of being repositioned relati... | 09/08/2009 |
| 7580755 | Automatic data transmission rate adjustment A method for connecting to a remote unit via a communications medium, determining a data transfer rate of the connection, setting a sampling rate between the remote unit and an implantable medical device at least in part as a function of the determined data transfer... | 08/25/2009 |
| 7574266 | System and method for telemetry with an implantable medical device An implantable medical device (IMD) includes a telemetry module to communicate with an external device according to a given protocol. To establish a communication session, the IMD will extend active periods of reception on a given channel when some confirmed data is... | 08/11/2009 |
| 7555347 | Identification of target site for implantation of a microstimulator Devices and methods for locating a target site for the electrical stimulation of muscles are disclosed. The intensity of a search stimulus is varied continuously near the threshold to evoke an M-wave recorded by EMG electrodes. A feedback signal allows the clinician... | 06/30/2009 |
| 7555348 | Remote transtelephonic monitor user interface Patients fitted with an implantable medical device (IMD) must typically return to their medical providers for follow-up sessions where the medical provider retrieves data from the patient's IMD for analysis. A remote monitoring device is described to allow patients ... | 06/30/2009 |
| 7551965 | System and method for removing narrowband noise A system and method for removing narrowband noise from an input signal in which notch filters having notch frequencies corresponding to the noise are dynamically adjusted in accordance with a detected noise spectrum. The method may be applied to telemetry systems fo... | 06/23/2009 |
| 7548787 | Medical diagnostic and communication system Cardiac stimulation device and wireless communication system, without magnetic detection or magnetic control of the heart pacemaker parameters, having leads for carrying stimulating pulses to and or from one or more electrodes located in a heart and a pulse generato... | 06/16/2009 |
| 7522962 | Implantable medical device with integrated acoustic transducer An implantable medical device comprises a hermetically sealed housing having at least one hermetic electrical feed through and an acoustic lead having a proximal end connected to the electrical feed through. One or more acoustic transducers are carried in a distal p... | 04/21/2009 |
| 7519429 | Electronic stimulator implant The present invention relates to lower urinary dysfunctions and more particularly to an electronic stimulator implant and method to improve bladder voiding and prevent bladder hyperreflexia. There is provided an electronic stimulator implant for which comprises a to... | 04/14/2009 |
| 7519430 | Dynamic telemetry encoding for an implantable medical device A telemetry system provides a selectable encoding protocol, including, for example, a plurality of redundancy levels, where the encoding protocol is selected based on a measure of transmission efficiency. For example, later messages are transmitted using an increase... | 04/14/2009 |
| 7496407 | Nerve stimulator measuring device A nerve stimulator measuring device used to measure the length of electrical conduction of a nerve using a standard electrical nerve stimulator. The device includes an outer housing attached or integrally formed on the cathode probe on the standard nerve stimulator.... | 02/24/2009 |
| 7483752 | Antenna for an implantable medical device An apparatus and method for enabling far-field radio-frequency communications with an implantable medical device in which an antenna is embedded within a dielectric compartment of the device. A helical antenna may be employed to save space while still permitting far... | 01/27/2009 |
| 7471985 | High-availability wireless operator control device for medical systems An apparatus for medical diagnosis and therapy systems has at least one operator control device generating at least one control signal corresponding to at least one function of the apparatus, a control unit for converting the at least one control signal into the at ... | 12/30/2008 |
| 7467014 | Compact and conformal telemetry antennas for implantable medical devices An implantable medical device (“IMD”) configured in accordance with an example embodiment of the invention generally includes a housing, a connector header block coupled to the housing, a dielectric sheath located around at least a portion of the housing and/or ... | 12/16/2008 |
| 7463930 | Implantable medical device programmer module for use with existing clinical instrumentation An external programmer module adapted for physical and electrical connection to existing clinical monitoring and/or therapy instrumentation is provided for achieving bi-directional communication with an implantable medical device (IMD). The programmer module include... | 12/09/2008 |
| 7457669 | On-demand retransmission of data with an implantable medical device This document discloses, among other things, a telemetry system for requesting and receiving redundant data. A synchronization frame transmitted by an external device includes an echo code. The implantable device responds to the synchronization frame by sending real... | 11/25/2008 |
| 7444184 | Method and system for providing therapy for bulimia/eating disorders by providing electrical pulses to vagus nerve(s) A method and system to provide pre-determined electrical pulses for neuromodulating vagus nerve(s) or its branches to provide therapy for bulimia/eating disorders, comprises implantable and external components. The electrical pulses to vagus nerve(s) may be stimulat... | 10/28/2008 |
| 7437193 | Microstimulator employing improved recharging reporting and telemetry techniques An implantable microstimulator configured to be implanted beneath a patient's skin for tissue stimulation to prevent and/or treat various disorders, e.g., neurological disorders, uses a self-contained power source such as a primary battery, a rechargeable battery, o... | 10/14/2008 |
| 7432723 | Coupling loop A coupling loop or antenna is provided that can be used with a system that determines the resonant frequency of a sensor by adjusting the phase and frequency of an energizing signal until the frequency of the energizing signal matches the resonant frequency of the s... | 10/07/2008 |
| 7418296 | Wireless pacing system analyzer in a programmer system An external interface device provides telemetry between an implantable apparatus and a remote device. The interface device includes a battery powered circuit and a wireless transceiver. A power supply of the remote device is isolated from the implantable apparatus b... | 08/26/2008 |
| 7418297 | Frame length modulation and pulse position modulation system A system includes a transceiver circuit to transceive at least a first analog signal and a digital signal. The system also includes a controller circuit, coupled to the transceiver circuit, to deliver at least one control signal thereto, the controller circuit inclu... | 08/26/2008 |
| 7409245 | Variable antenna matching network for an implantable antenna An implantable medical device may have an antenna for communication with external devices or other internal devices. Changes in the patient's body position, weight, composition or other factors may change the antenna efficiency and hinder communication. The disclose... | 08/05/2008 |
| 7406349 | Dynamic telemetry link selection for an implantable device Communications with an implantable device are conducted using a physical telemetry link dynamically selected from multiple physical telemetry links based on selected criteria including, for example, bandwidth, security, data throughput, channel availability and reli... | 07/29/2008 |
| 7406105 | System and method for sharing a common communication channel between multiple systems of implantable medical devices A system and method that facilitates multiple systems of communicating devices, i.e., a master device and one or more implantable slave devices, to coexist on a common, e.g., RF, communication channel having a limited temporal bandwidth while maintaining the require... | 07/29/2008 |
| 7400928 | Methods and devices for detection of context when addressing a medical condition of a patient Methods and devices detect context related to a patient when monitoring a physiological condition of the patient and/or when applying one or more modes of therapy. The context may be a patient context such as posture or an environmental context such as ambient condi... | 07/15/2008 |
| 7395117 | Implantable medical device having long-term wireless capabilities A medical device is capable of utilizing a pervasive wireless communications network, such as a digital wireless telephone network, personal communication services network or pager network, to directly communicate with a host computer without the need for a repeater... | 07/01/2008 |
| 7392091 | Implanted antenna and radio communications link A medical implant comprising a housing and an antenna member carried by the housing. The antenna member is configured to be capacitively coupled to body tissue in which the housing is implanted. This forms, together with the impedance of the body tissue, part of a r... | 06/24/2008 |
| 7392090 | Data logging system for implantable medical device A data logging system and method in which an implantable medical device transmits logged data to an external data logging device with low energy potential signals. The implantable device generates potential signals modulated with digitally encoded data by operating ... | 06/24/2008 |
| 7392092 | Method and apparatus for operating a diversity antenna system for communicating with implantable medical device A far-field radio frequency (RF) telemetry system for communicating with an implantable medical device includes a diversity antenna system. Multi-frame messages each including multiple outgoing data frames are transmitted to the implantable medical device. In respon... | 06/24/2008 |
| 7387607 | Wireless medical sensor system A monitoring device having a signal receiver, a pseudo-ground, a digital processor and a transceiver, the signal receiver having an ability to receive a sensed signal representing a patient vital sign, the pseudo-ground having an ability to generate a baseline signa... | 06/17/2008 |
| 7389146 | Self-describing real-time device data communication system An implantable medical device (IMD) communicates with an external processing unit by transmitting device data and configuration information that describes the device data. The external processing unit processes the device data for display based on the configuration ... | 06/17/2008 |
| 7389147 | Therapy delivery mode selection Techniques for selectably providing either constant voltage or constant current stimulation are described. A programming device provides a user interface by which a user selects either constant voltage or constant current stimulation, and selects either a voltage or... | 06/17/2008 |
| 7386347 | Electric stimilator for alpha-wave derivation An electric stimulator for alpha-wave derivation is characterized in that frequency selected from a range of 1 Hz to 50 Hz, preferably, 7 Hz to 14 Hz, and an output voltage are applied to auricle of a patient's ears to derive alpha-waves, and that cycle and intensit... | 06/10/2008 |
| 7379774 | Method and apparatus for efficient power/data transmission A system, method and power/data transmission device comprising a coil having a high Q, a low-voltage driver and a high-voltage driver switchably coupled to the coil. The low-voltage driver and the high-voltage driver are controlled by a microcontroller and switch at... | 05/27/2008 |
| 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 |