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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...
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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...
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7606620 |
System and method for detection enhancement programming
A system and method of enabling detection enhancements selected from a plurality of detection enhancements. In a system having a plurality of clinical rhythms, including a first clinical rhythm,...
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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...
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7551962 |
Implantable medical device with voice responding and recording capacity
An implantable medical device such as a cardiac pacemaker or implantable cardioverter/defibrillator with the capability of receiving communications in the form of speech spoken by the patient. An...
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7539541 |
Automatic power control for a radio frequency transceiver of an implantable device
Power supplied to a particular telemetry system of an implantable device having multiple telemetry systems is managed by a state machine. Power to a transceiver of a device is terminated if the...
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7532932 |
Implantable medical apparatus having an omnidirectional antenna for receiving radio frequency signals
An radio frequency antenna assembly is provided for a medical device such as one capable of being implanted into a patient. The antenna assembly includes a plurality of antennas, each oriented to...
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7528094 |
Method and apparatus for providing safe long-range telemetry with implantable medical devices
An implantable medical device (IMD) communication system and associated method for controlling the telemetry link status between an IMD and associated programmer during a telemetry session are...
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7515963 |
Method of patient initiated electro-cardiogram storage, status query and therapy activation
A handheld cardiac rhythm management device for use by a patient to request status information from an implantable pulse generating device and to request that the pulse generating device provide a...
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7489967 |
Method and apparatus of acoustic communication for implantable medical device
An implantable medical device includes an acoustic transducer for intra-body communication with another medical device via an acoustic couple. The acoustic transducer includes one or more...
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7486184 |
Coaxial cable antenna for communication with implanted medical devices
A coaxial cable antenna is provided for use in an external device, such as a programmer or monitor, to enhance communication between the external device and an implanted medical device (IMD). The...
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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...
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7471986 |
System and method for transmitting energy to and establishing a communications network with one or more implanted devices
Systems and methods for automatically powering and communicating with an implantable medical device through an inductive link are disclosed. A preferred embodiment comprises an inductive coil or...
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7471290 |
Posture detection system
Methods, systems, and apparatus are described for posture detection. Orientations of a body are detected with respect to first and second axes. A movement of the body with respect to a third axis...
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7469161 |
Systems and methods for monitoring and managing power consumption of an implantable medical device
In one embodiment, an external programming device is operable to determine and graphically display power consumption of an implantable medical device (“IMD”). In accordance with this particular...
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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...
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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...
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7451002 |
Automated generation of transfer functions based upon machine data
A system and method for servicing a medical device, which provides for generation of a transfer function that correlates historical machine data with the health of the medical device. The transfer...
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7440805 |
Implantable pulse generator system and method for utilizing communication protocols
An implantable pulse generator communicates with external devices such as device programmers and network repeaters to exchange data. The communication utilizes a communication protocol such that...
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7437644 |
Automatic self-testing of an internal device in a closed system
A closed system such as a TET system in which self-testing of all components of the implantable medical device whose malfunction could negatively impact on the proper operation of the closed system...
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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...
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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...
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7418237 |
Electric circuit and transmission method for telemetric transmission
The invention relates to an electric circuit for a telemetric transmission. A semiconductor transistor switch switches a quenching circuit into an electrically conductive state to prevent...
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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...
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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...
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7363087 |
Compact conformal antenna for a medical telemetry system
A telemetry component according to an embodiment of the invention, such as a programmer or a monitor for an implantable medical device (“IMD”), includes at least one radio frequency (“RF”)...
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7359753 |
System and method for RF wake-up of implantable medical device
A telemetry system is presented for enabling radio-frequency (RF) communications between an implantable medical device and an external device in a manner which reduces the power requirements of the...
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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...
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7353063 |
Generating and communicating web content from within an implantable medical device
Methods, systems, and computer program products for generating and communicating web content from within an implantable medical device are provided. A method includes collecting data from a memory...
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7336991 |
Multi-channel biological signal telemetry systems
A system for performing telemetry of multi-channel biological signals obtained from electrodes attached to a subject, is provided with a transmitter and a receiver. In the transmitter, a converter...
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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,...
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7321837 |
Synchronization and calibration of clocks for a medical device and calibrated clock
Apparatus and method support the synchronization and calibration of a plurality of clocks in a medical device system that may provide treatment to a patient with a nervous system disorder. The...
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7319903 |
System and method for RF transceiver duty cycling in an implantable medical device
A telemetry system is presented for enabling radio-frequency (RF) communications between an implantable medical device and an external device in a manner which reduces the power requirements of the...
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7317946 |
Telemetry antenna for an implantable medical device
A telemetry antenna for an implantable medical device includes one or more portions having a non-linear configuration. In some embodiments, the non-linear configuration provides an antenna having a...
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7317943 |
Capture threshold monitoring
In general, the invention is directed to techniques for capture testing of a capture threshold in cooperation with measurement of other cardiac parameters. Physiological or non-physiological...
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7313529 |
Portable extender for data transmission within a medical device communication system
Apparatus and method for managing chronic home care of patients with one or more implanted medical devices (IMDs) includes a mobile portable device for use by a visiting nurse. Specifically, the...
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7313441 |
Split-can dipole antenna for an implantable medical device
An apparatus and method for enabling far-field radio-frequency communications with an implantable medical device utilizing the device housing as an antenna. Such radio-frequency communications can...
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7308311 |
Physician programmer system with telemetered sensor waveform
A programmer and implantable stimulation device system with the implantable device and programmer in telemetric communication with each other wherein the implantable device internally monitors a...
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7299086 |
Wireless ECG in implantable devices
An implantable medical device such as an implantable pacemaker or implantable cardioverter/defibrillator includes a programmable sensing circuit providing for sensing of a signal approximating a...
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7295879 |
Double helical antenna assembly for a wireless intravascular medical device
A medical device, such as a cardiac pacing device for an animal, includes an intravascular antenna that has a first coil for engaging a wall of a first blood vessel to receive a radio frequency...
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7289855 |
Implantable medical device package antenna
A wireless communication system is provided that includes an antenna structure adapted for coupling to a medical device antenna when the medical device is not implanted in a patient's body. The...
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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...
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7289852 |
Implantable medical device configured for diagnostic emulation through serial communication
An implantable medical device (IMD) with internal processor is configured for diagnostic emulation using an external processor coupled to the internal processor through a high speed serial link....
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7280872 |
Wireless communication with implantable medical device
Embodiments of the present invention are directed to apparatus and methods of minimizing current drain of an implantable medical device during wireless communication with the device, thereby...
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7277754 |
Method and system for removing pacing artifacts from subcutaneous electrocardiograms
An implantable cardiac rhythm management device is configured to remove pacing artifacts from recorded electrograms by a subtraction method. A template waveform representing a recorded pace without...
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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....
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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...
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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...
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7263406 |
Medical device programmer with selective disablement of display during telemetry
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...
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7245966 |
Ventricular event filtering for an implantable medical device
Pacing parameters are provided to address cross talk and intrinsic ventricular events occurring within a predefined blanking period following an atrial event. The parameters are used in conjunction...
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