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7637867 Methods for configuring implantable satellite effectors  
Techniques for controlling one or more modular circuits (“satellites”) that are intended for placement in a subject's body. The one or more satellites are controlled by sending signals over a...
7637916 Medical electrical lead implant tool  
A medical electrical lead implant tool includes a gripping assembly, terminating a distal end of an elongate shaft, adapted to alternately grasp the lead and release the lead and to rotate the...
7639006 Detector for magnetic hazards to implanted medical device  
A handheld detector gives a warning when a magnetic field exceeds the safety level for a particular medical implant that is magnetically activated. A front surface of the device corresponds...
7637747 Connector mechanism  
The invention relates to a connector mechanism, a connector, an electronic device, a garment and a physiological sensor. The connector mechanism comprises a first connector part, which includes a...
7640058 Biventricular heart stimulator  
A biventricular heart stimulator is adapted to optimize an interventricular delay interval duration by minimizing a mechanical asynchrony between right and left ventricle. Mechanical asynchrony...
7640059 External presentation of electrical stimulation parameters  
A trial stimulation system and, more particularly, an indicator device within the trial stimulation system that measures and indicates energy amplitude levels for electrical stimulation therapy...
7640063 Methods of treating medical conditions by neuromodulation of the cerebellar pathways  
Methods of treating various medical conditions by neuromodulation of target sites of a cerebello-thalamo-cortical pathway and/or a cortical-ponto-cerebellar pathway. Such medical conditions include...
7640064 Self fixing spinal cord stimulation lead and delivery system  
Devices and methods for implanting a spinal neurological lead having at least one wing or flap extending transversely from the lead body. The wing can have a first wrapped configuration in which...
7640062 Methods and systems for management of alzheimer's disease  
A method is provided for treating Alzheimer's disease (AD). The method includes stimulating a sphenopalatine ganglion (SPG) of a subject so that the concentration of a substance in a brain of the...
7637931 Portable therapeutic cooling system  
A disposable portable therapeutic cooling system that utilizes convective cooling and re-circulated air to efficiently, safely, and effectively cool the head and body of the patient, clothed or...
7640057 Methods of providing neural markers for sensed autonomic nervous system activity  
In various method embodiments, a neural activity signal is sensed, a feature from the sensed neural activity signal is extracted, and a neural marker for the extracted feature is created. The...
7640065 Cardiac constraint/therapeutic stimulation device  
A system or appliance to treat heart failure (HF) conditions. The appliance includes a structural support or cardiac constraint to limit further distension of weakened heart tissue. The appliance...
7637263 Method of controlling body temperature with an electrochemical device while providing on-demand power to an electrical device  
Electrochemical devices are utilized as an on-demand personal temperature control system, as well as an on-demand power supply for electrical devices. The electrochemical devices are planar stiff...
7640060 Implantable satellite effectors  
Techniques for controlling one or more modular circuits (“satellites”) that are intended for placement in a subject's body. The one or more satellites are controlled by sending signals over a...
7637868 Composite material for implantable device  
Devices suitable for implantation in a body of a host and systems and methods for their manufacture are provided. The implantable devices include a composite material formed at least from a matrix...
7637930 Medical device and method for treating skin disease  
Methods and systems for treating skin disease are disclosed. Heat is applied at a controlled temperature, for a predetermined period of time, to a skin lesion associated with a skin disease...
7640061 Electronic module design to maximize volume efficiency  
Compact electronic modules, which may be used with implantable microstimulators and other medical and non-medical devices, and manufacture/assembly of such modules are described. Component and...
7636602 Fully implantable nerve signal sensing and stimulation device and method for treating foot drop and other neurological disorders  
A fully implantable nerve stimulation system includes an event-triggered, closed-loop control unit that detects physiological events from nerve signals and delivers stimulation pulses to a nerve to...
7636603 Bionic ear implant  
A bionic ear cochlear stimulation system has the capability to stimulate fast enough to induce stochastic neural firing, thereby acting to restore “spontaneous” neural activity. Such...
7636598 Cardiac device interface to reduce ventricular pacing  
A cardiac interface device helps program an implantable cardiac rhythm or function management device, such as to reduce unnecessary ventricular pacing to avoid contributing to the advancement of...
7636594 Infant warming and sensor mat  
An infant warming and sensor mat for keeping a baby warm and monitoring the baby's haemoglobin oxygen saturation level (SaO 2 ) and heart rate. The mat preferably comprises a bottom layer of...
7636599 Determining patient posture from sensed cardiac data  
Exemplary techniques for determining patient posture from cardiac data sensed by an implantable medical device (IMD) are described. One technique involves sensing intracardiac electrogram (IEGM)...
7636600 Pressure monitoring for apnea prevention and/or therapy  
An exemplary method includes determining an intramural pressure based on one or more in vivo pressure measurements, based on the intramural pressure, deciding whether apnea exists and, if apnea...
7636601 Remote control with voice disabler  
System and method for temporary disabling the vocal faculties of a person. A voice disabler is implanted between the skull and the anterior occipital lobe of a human subject. The disabler has...
7636597 Surgical tools and techniques for stimulation  
Apparatus for treating a subject is provided, the apparatus comprising (a) a stimulation device ( 352 ), adapted to be implanted in a vicinity of a site selected from the list consisting of: a...
7635362 Method and apparatus treating area of the skin by using multipulse laser  
The invention relates to a method and apparatus for multipulse laser treatments on a spot target by using a CO 2 laser system and a laser beam scanner attached at the end of the delivery system....
7635541 Method for charging lithium-ion battery  
A method for charging an implantable medical device includes charging a lithium-ion battery provided in a medical device, the lithium-ion battery having a negative electrode with a lithium titanate...
7634316 Method and apparatus for validating a pacing train associated with T-shock delivery  
A method and apparatus for validating a cardiac pacing pulse train preceding a T-shock. Validation of the pacing pulse train includes verifying capture of at least the last pacing pulse of the...
7631415 Method for assembling a programmer for a medical device  
A method for assembling a programmer for a medical device includes assembling a housing member, a first circuit board, a second circuit board, and a plate member in a stacked z-axis configuration.
7631424 Method of making electrode array with a tack opening  
The present invention provides a flexible circuit electrode array adapted for neural stimulation, comprising: a polymer base layer; metal traces deposited on said polymer base layer, including...
7634318 Multi-element acoustic recharging system  
An acoustic energy delivery system for delivering acoustic energy to an implantable medical device (“IMD”). The system includes an IMD having a power source and an energy delivery device. The...
7632295 Ferroelectric hyperthermia method for cancer treatment  
A method of localized cell heating introduces a plurality of ferroelectric comprising particles into a target region of a patient, and applies a time varying electrical field to the target region....
7632234 Implantable biosensor devices for monitoring cardiac marker molecules  
An implantable biosensor system is disclosed for determining levels of cardiac markers in a patient to aid in the diagnosis, determination of the severity and management of cardiovascular diseases....
7632268 System for tissue ablation  
Systems for treating a mucosal surface of an alimentary canal tissue region are provided. The systems can include an elongate support structure, an expandable member positionable at a distal...
7631377 Bed ventilator unit  
A ventilating system for a bed for selectively venting either ambient air or heated air into the bed linen of a bed approximate the foot of the bed through a pair of vents clipped to the mattress...
7634314 Powered stimulation device  
A device and related method of use are disclosed which employ electrically-conductive wheels to massage and contact the skin to deliver electrical current. The present invention has both cosmetic...
7633231 Harmonic cold plasma device and associated methods  
A device for generating atmospheric pressure cold plasma inside a hand-held unit discharges cold plasma with simultaneously different rf wavelengths and their harmonics. The device includes an rf...
7632297 Implant and delivery tool therefor  
An implant system including a transurethral prostatic implant positioned in a prostate and including a lumen with an inner perimeter that surrounds an outer perimeter of a urethra at the prostate....
7634319 Method and anchor for medical implant placement, and method of anchor manufacture  
An anchor and procedure for placing a medical implant, such as for monitoring physiological parameters. The anchor includes a central body in which a medical implant can be received. Arms and...
RE41045 Method and apparatus for altering neural tissue function  
A method and apparatus for altering a function of neural tissue in a patient. An electromagnetic signal is applied to the neural tissue through an electrode. The electromagnetic signal has a...
7634313 Failsafe satellite pacemaker system  
In one implementation, a failsafe method for implantable satellite pacemaker pacing is provided, which includes pacing with a satellite pacemaker and monitoring for a local pacing pulse with an...
7634315 Techniques to monitor and trend nerve damage and recovery  
An exemplary method includes implementing a nerve stimulation therapy that includes delivering stimulation energy to a target nerve, periodically acquiring compound action potentials responsive to...
7634317 Techniques for applying, calibrating, and controlling nerve fiber stimulation  
Apparatus is provided including an electrode device, adapted to be coupled to a site of a subject; and a control unit, adapted to drive the electrode device to apply a current to the site...
7630755 Syncope logbook and method of using same  
Method and systems are directed to acquiring and organizing information associated with at least one syncope event. A syncope event may be a suspected syncope event, a verified syncope event or a...
7630773 Adaptive software configuration for a medical device  
This document describes, among other things, a method of operating a medical device comprising updating a regulatory approval status stored in at least one of the medical device or a second device...
7630769 GI inflammatory disease treatment  
Methods and an apparatus are described for treating at least one of a plurality of disorders of a patient characterized at least in part by vagal activity innervating at least one of a plurality of...
7630757 System for the prediction, rapid detection, warning, prevention, or control of changes in activity states in the brain of a subject  
A system ( 10 ) analyzes signals representative of a subject's brain activity in a signal processor ( 12 ) for information indicating the subject's current activity state and for predicting a...
7628939 Disposable chemiluminescent infrared therapy device  
A therapeutic device has a first chamber that retains an oxalic ester solution, and a second chamber that retains a hydrogen peroxide and fluorescer solution. The therapeutic device is activated by...
7630764 Method and system for delivering cardiac resynchronization therapy with variable atrio-ventricular delay  
A pacing system computes optimal cardiac resynchronization pacing parameters using intrinsic conduction intervals. In various embodiments, values for atrio-ventricular delay intervals are each...
7630768 One-piece header assembly for an implantable medical device and methods for making same  
A header assembly for connecting an implantable medical device to at least one conductor lead terminating within a patient intended to be assisted by the medical device is provided. The implantable...