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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7941217 | Techniques for promoting biventricular synchrony and stimulation device efficiency using intentional fusion An exemplary method includes providing an optimal interventricular interval, determining an atrio-ventricular conduction delay for the ventricle having faster atrio-ventricular conduction, determining an interventricular conduction delay and determining an advance a... | 05/10/2011 |
| 7933649 | Implantable cardiac stimulation device and method for measuring intrinsic activity metrics in multi-site pacing An implantable cardiac stimulation device provides measurement of intrinsic heart activity metrics while sustaining pacing of the heart. The device includes a pulse generator that delivers pacing pulses to a first chamber of corresponding chambers of a heart, and a ... | 04/26/2011 |
| 7894897 | Implantable cardiac stimulation device providing enhanced capture threshold management in the presence of fusion beats and method An implantable cardiac stimulation device recognizes and accommodates fusion beats without compromising autocapture or threshold searches. The device comprises a pulse generator that provides first and second pacing pulses to a chamber of a heart. The first pacing p... | 02/22/2011 |
| 7668593 | System and method to accelerate individualized gain adjustment in implantable medical device systems A system and method for increasing the speed of individualizing amplifier gain optimization in implantable medical devices. A variable amplifier gain is initially set at a relatively high level such that the amplifier experiences at least intervals of saturation. A ... | 02/23/2010 |
| 7587243 | System and method for verifying capture and/or event sensing during manual threshold evaluations of an implantable cardiac stimulation device A system verifies the occurrence of a cardiac event during a manual evaluation of a pacing and/or sensing parameter of an implantable cardiac stimulation device. The system comprises a template generator that generates an electrogram template standard characterizing... | 09/08/2009 |
| 7574259 | Capture threshold and lead condition analysis An exemplary method includes performing a capture threshold assessment using a bipolar electrode configuration, deciding if capture occurred for a maximum energy value of the capture threshold assessment and, if capture did not occur, then performing a lead impedanc... | 08/11/2009 |
| 7551961 | Cardiac stimulation device with selective atrial pacing on premature ventricular complex detection and method An implantable cardiac stimulation device provides selective atrial pacing upon detection of a premature ventricular complex (PVC). The device comprises a premature ventricular complex detector that detects premature complexes of the heart, and a sensing circuit tha... | 06/23/2009 |
| 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 |
| 7308307 | Implantable single-chamber atrial pacing device providing active ventricular far field sensing and rate limit A maximum pacing rate is dynamically established during single-chamber atrial pacing of a heart by a rate control system within a single-chamber or dual-chamber cardiac stimulation device which paces the atria of a heart on demand at the end of an escape interval. T... | 12/11/2007 |
| 7245965 | Implantable cardiac device providing mode switching and automatic atrial sensitivity control and method An implantable cardiac stimulation device, mode switchable between atrial tracking and atrial non-tracking pacing modes includes a threshold control for controlling atrial sensing threshold. The threshold control reduces the sensing threshold from a first threshold ... | 07/17/2007 |
