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5085224 Portable signalling unit for an EKG  
A portable leadwire signalling terminal is provided as an interface between an EKG base unit and a patient. The portable terminal includes a signal transceiver which transmits leadwire information...
5070535 Transcutaneous power and signal transmission system and methods for increased signal transmission efficiency  
A transcutaneous signal transmission system having coupling coil alignment tolerance and increased coupling efficiency includes an external transmitter and first tuned circuit including a first...
5058581 Telemetry apparatus and method for implantable tissue stimulator  
An improved telemetry system for telemetering digital data from an implantable tissue stimulator such as a heart pacemaker. A carrier signal is pulse modulated in accordance with either or both of...
5038800 System for monitoring patient by using LAN  
A system for monitoring a patient by using a local area network (LAN) to connect a central monitor, located at a nurse's station, to one or more bedside monitors, wherein the bedside monitor...
5024221 Programmable band-pass amplifier for use with implantable medical device  
A switched-capacitor, band-pass, programmable amplifier is used as a sense amplifier in an implantable cardiac pacemaker. Switching means are used to switchably connect various capacitors to the...
5024224 Method of readout of implanted hearing aid device and apparatus therefor  
The implanted device includes a rectifier circuit which is switched between modes of half wave and full wave rectification in response to the signal to be conveyed. The external device is...
5012806 Implantations for cardiac stimulation by pacemaker  
Implantation for cardiac stimulation by pacemaker including also a radio-frequency receiver for alternative cardiac stimulation by means of an external pacemaker and a radio-frequency transmitter;...
5003984 Apparatus for alerting a doctor by radio to provide an alarm for a patient  
An apparatus for alerting a doctor which provides an alarm corresponding to a patient, and receives living body information signals transmitted through a transmitter. The apparatus alerts a doctor...
4981141 Wireless electrocardiographic monitoring system  
An electrocardiographic monitoring system in which the heart-signal sensing electrodes are each coupled to the heart-signal monitor/recorder by respective wireless transmitters and corresponding...
4979506 Self-test system and method for external programming device  
A communication system includes self-test means for automatically testing its performance. The communication system is adapted for use between an implantable device, such as a pacemaker, and an...
4974607 System for centralized management of medical data  
A system for centralized management of medical data regarding bio-body information detected from a patient by way of a telephone line to a data processing facility in a medical organization, in...
4964304 Audiometric testing method and apparatus  
Means for transmitting an FM radio signal carrying an audio test signal to a preselected one of two receivers in the headset of a patient, together with FM signalling means carried by the patient...
4952928 Adaptable electronic monitoring and identification system  
A personnel monitoring system includes a transmitting or transponding unit that is worn or carried by the individual being monitored. This transmitting or transponder unit periodically, or upon...
4944299 High speed digital telemetry system for implantable device  
A high speed digital telemetry system (10) includes a transmitter (12) and a receiver (14), at least one of which is adapted for use in an implantable device. The transmitter includes a data...
4940058 Cryogenic remote sensing physiograph  
Apparatus and method for remotely detecting super-low frequency (SLF) and extremely-low frequency (ELF) signals eminating from human subjects. The SLF/ELF signals are composed of various...
4919144 Defibrillator ECG interpreter  
A defibrillator electrocardiogram (ECG) interpreter for indicating whether to treat a patient with a defibrillator. A sequence of digitized samples from a patient's ECG is periodically tested to...
4904950 Telemetry digital subcarrier demodulator  
A telemetry receiver for demodulating subcarrier frequencies is disclosed. The flexibility of the receiver permits it to decode signals from a wide variety of transmitters. In the preferred...
RE33170 Surgically implantable disconnect device  
A surgically implantable connector for a transcutaneous driving system comprised of a case having a base and a lid which are shaped to provide a cavity between them with a first elastomeric pad for...
4886064 Body activity controlled heart pacer  
Body activity sensors, such as termperature, motion, respiration and/or blood oxygen sensors, are positioned in a patient's body outside the pacer capsule. These sensors wirelessly transmit body...
4865044 Temperature-sensing system for cattle  
Disclosed is a device for detecting temperatures which differ from a variable norm of particular use in detecting elevated temperatures in cattle. The device, one being attached to each animal,...
4857716 Patient identification and verification system and method  
A patient identification system for relating items with patients and ensuring that an identified item corresponds to an identified patient. The patient identification system includes a computer...
4854328 Animal monitoring telltale and information system  
An animal monitoring telltale device including a receiver attached to the animal and a transmitting device inserted in the animal subcutaneously or in a cavity at a location indicative of the deep...
4846191 Device for chronic measurement of internal body pressure  
Measurement of a physiological pressure is accomplished by placement of a pressure transmitting catheter within a blood vessel or other structure within which pressure is to be measured. The...
4844076 Ingestible size continuously transmitting temperature monitoring pill  
A temperature responsive transmitter is disclosed. The transmitter utilizes a unique circuit design that allows encapsulation in an ingestible size capsule. The inventive circuit design uses a one...
4827943 Portable, multi-channel, physiological data monitoring system  
The system of the present invention provides a link between the caregiver and the subject being monitored which utilizes an intermediate base station and redundant signal paths between the base...
4823808 Method for control of obesity, overweight and eating disorders  
Methods for the treatment of obesity, overweight, compulsive overeating, emotional overeating, binge eating, bulimia and anorexia comprises the steps of monitoring physiological parameters in the...
4819647 Intracochlear electrode array  
An electrode array for implantation in a human cochlea. The array includes a spiral-shaped resilient carrier which generally conforms to the shape of the scala tympani of the cochlea. The carrier...
4819860 Wrist-mounted vital functions monitor and emergency locator  
A wrist-mounted pulse rate and body temperature monitor has means for storing upper and lower emergency pulse rates and body temperatures by means of which an emergency medical situation is...
4809697 Interactive programming and diagnostic system for use with implantable pacemaker  
An analyzer-programmer system (30) for use with an implantable medical device, such as a cardiac pacemaker (20). The system facilitates non-invasive communications with the implantable device and...
4805631 Device for the detection, the study and the supervision of diseases, and in particular heart diseases, resulting in electrically recordable manifestations  
A device for observing and recording the activity of at least one organ of the body of a patient producing electrically recordable manifestations for in particular studying and supervising heart...
4796641 Device and method for chronic in-vivo measurement of internal body pressure  
A device capable of sensing pressure allows the sensor and amplifying electronics to be packaged in a very small size and implanted within the body. The sensor consists of a small catheter, the tip...
4791933 Radio electrocardiography for a living body moving in the water  
A method of diagnosing the heart condition of a living body moving in the water, in which an electrocardiogram recorded by the steps of hermetically contacting electrodes on the skin surface of the...
4785827 Subcutaneous housing assembly  
A housing assembly for electronic circuitry that can be used subcutaneously. The housing assembly comprises container and base subassemblies each comprising a ceramic portion and a continuous metal...
4784155 Device for automated detection of estrus in farm animals  
A telemetry system includes a transmitter, which is either placed in the vagina or is implanted in the vulvular or vaginal tissue, and a receiver. The transmitter is capable of measuring...
4778449 Monitoring system for the remote supervision of a plurality of gravity perfusion sets  
The supervision system comprises an electrical line for the transmission of digital data, at least one perfusion set including a flow meter and a module for encoding and for transmission in digital...
4777961 High sensitivity stethoscopic system and method  
A lightweight, improved precordial suction stethescope constant monitoring system including a heart and breath sound detection means, solely mounted to patient using only suction or other...
4775887 Observation apparatus for artificial organs  
An observation apparatus for an artificial organ such as an artificial heart includes a first casing having the artificial heart and a video signal generating and transmitting apparatus therein and...
4773427 Water-proof device for transmitter  
A water-proof device for a transmitter is disclosed which comprises a plurality of water-proof electrodes attached to the surface of a man for deriving minute electrocardiogram signals. A...
4770189 Real time multitask electronic stethoscopy system  
A diagnostic system comprising one or more stethoscopes and a diagnostic unit. Each stethoscope is used to pick up a sound, which is then transmitted in radio form via an antenna after...
4757816 Telemetry system for implantable pacer  
A telemetry system for transmitting digital data from an implanted pacer to an external programming/receiver unit includes a voltage-controlled pulse generator having an output period proportional...
4747413 Infant temperature measuring apparatus and methods  
A continuous temperature monitoring apparatus for a human infant includes a garment adapted to be worn on an infant's torso, over the armpits, which includes a temperature sensor located in an...
4741341 Protection circuit and method for implanted ECG telemetry circuits  
A protection circuit for an implanted telemetry circuit used to telemeter ECG or other low level signals sensed on the same lead whereon high level stimulation or other signals may also appear. The...
4741340 Pulse to sinewave telemetry system  
A telemetry system for communicating with a tank circuit contained in a pacer implanted in a patient includes a telemetry coil and a capacitor connected to the telemetry coil for forming a resonant...
4741339 Power transfer for implanted prostheses  
Apparatus is provided for improving the coupling between an external inductive transmitting coil and an internal inductive receiving coil to transmit power and/or data to the receiving coil from...
4730603 Receiver of amplitude modulated signals  
An improvement to an implantable amplitude modulated frequency receiver wherein a resistor in the demodulator portion of a prior art receiver, which provides a discharge path for a capacitor, is...
4711243 Cortical hearing aid  
The cortical hearing aid is an instrument that produces the sensation of hearing by electrical stimulation of the neurons in the auditory cortex and/or auditory nerve trunk (eighth cranial nerve)....
4712179 Method and apparatus for calibrating internal measurements of an implanted cardiac pacer  
An implantable cardiac pacer having pacer circuitry for producing output stimulation pulses on leads connectable to a patient's heart includes internal measurement circuitry for producing...
4709704 Monitoring device for bio-signals  
A monitoring device comprising, a belt having a sufficient length for placement around a patient's body, a conductive electrode on the belt for contacting the patient's skin, and a device for...
4705043 Electrophysiology study system using implantable cardioverter/pacer  
An electrophysiology (EP) study system using an implantable cardioverter/pace. The system includes an implantable unit having a conventional programmable pace capable of operation in at least the...
4703756 Complete glucose monitoring system with an implantable, telemetered sensor module  
An electrochemical system includes a sensor module suitable for implantation in the body to monitor glucose and oxygen levels therein. The module has two oxygen sensors situated in an...