| Patent Number |
Title Of Patent |
Date Issued |
| 8239020 |
Implantable medical device sensing wireless ECG as substitute for intracardiac electrogram |
August 7, 2012 |
| A cardiac rhythm management (CRM) system includes an implantable medical device that senses a wireless electrocardiogram (ECG), which is a signal sensed with implantable electrodes and approximating a surface ECG. In one embodiment, the wireless ECG is sensed as a substitute signal for t |
| 8116871 |
Automatic capture verification using electrocardiograms sensed from multiple implanted electrode |
February 14, 2012 |
| Cardiac monitoring and/or stimulation methods and systems that provide one or more of monitoring, diagnosing, defibrillation, and pacing. Cardiac signal separation is employed for automatic capture verification using cardiac activation sequence information. Devices and methods sense |
| 7917215 |
Closed loop cardiac resynchronization therapy using cardiac activation sequence information |
March 29, 2011 |
| Cardiac monitoring and/or stimulation methods and systems that provide one or more of monitoring, diagnosing, defibrillation, and pacing. Cardiac signal separation is employed to detect, monitor, track and/or trend closed-loop cardiac resynchronization therapy using cardiac activation |
| 7899535 |
Automatic electrode integrity management systems and methods |
March 1, 2011 |
| This document discusses, among other things, systems and methods for automatic electrode integrity management. Interelectrode impedance is measured for various electrode combinations of an implantable cardiac function management device. The impedance data is processed, such as at an |
| 7890159 |
Cardiac activation sequence monitoring and tracking |
February 15, 2011 |
| Cardiac monitoring and/or stimulation methods and systems provide monitoring, diagnosis, and defibrillation and/or pacing therapies. A signal processor receives a plurality of composite signals associated with a plurality of sources, performs a source separation, and produces one or |
| 7873413 |
Closed loop neural stimulation synchronized to cardiac cycles |
January 18, 2011 |
| Various aspects of the present subject matter relate to a method. According to various method embodiments, cardiac activity is detected, and neural stimulation is synchronized with a reference event in the detected cardiac activity. Neural stimulation is titrated based on a detected |
| 7844336 |
Implantable medical device configured as a pedometer |
November 30, 2010 |
| This document discusses, among other things, a system including an implantable medical device. The implantable medical device includes a control circuit and a motion sensing device. The motion sensing device is coupled to the control circuit, and the motion sensing device is configur |
| 7818051 |
Wireless ECG in implantable devices |
October 19, 2010 |
| 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 surface electrocardiogram (ECG) through implanted electrodes. With various electrode conf |
| 7774061 |
Implantable cardiac device with ischemia response capability |
August 10, 2010 |
| A cardiac device is described with the capability of detecting cardiac ischemia using multiple sensing modalities. The device may be configured to modify its behavior in delivering therapies to treat bradycardia or tachyarrhythmias in response to detection of cardiac ischemia. |
| 7751890 |
Self-diagnostic method and system for implantable cardiac device |
July 6, 2010 |
| A self-diagnostic system for an implantable cardiac device such as a pacemaker, cardioverter, or resynchronization device which utilizes a subcutaneous ECG channel is described. The subcutaneous ECG channel allows the device to, in real time and independent of the standard pacing and |
| 7706866 |
Automatic orientation determination for ECG measurements using multiple electrodes |
April 27, 2010 |
| Cardiac monitoring and/or stimulation methods and systems provide monitoring, defibrillation and/or pacing therapies. A signal processor receives a plurality of composite signals associated with a plurality of sources, separates a signal using a source separation algorithm, and ident |
| 7542800 |
Method and apparatus for synchronizing neural stimulation to cardiac cycles |
June 2, 2009 |
| A neural stimulator senses a reference signal indicative of cardiac cycles each including a predetermined type timing reference event using a sensor external to the heart and blood vessels. The delivery of the neural stimulation pulses are synchronized to that timing reference event. |
| 7299086 |
Wireless ECG in implantable devices |
November 20, 2007 |
| 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 surface electrocardiogram (ECG) through implanted electrodes. With various electrode conf |
| 7277754 |
Method and system for removing pacing artifacts from subcutaneous electrocardiograms |
October 2, 2007 |
| 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 accompanying cardiac electrical activity is generated. Such a pacing pulse template is |
| 7212849 |
Methods and apparatuses for arrhythmia detection and classification using wireless ECG |
May 1, 2007 |
| A CRM system enhances intracardiac electrogram-based arrhythmia detection using a wireless electrocardiogram (ECG), which is a signal sensed with implantable electrodes and approximating a surface ECG. In one embodiment, an intracardiac electrogram allows for detection of an arrhythm |
