IMPLANTABLE WIRELESS SOUND SENSOR
First Claim
1. A system, comprising:
- an implantable housing including a memory circuit and an electronic communication circuit configured to communicate from within a body to an external location; and
a separate implantable biological or physiological sound detector communicatively coupled to the implantable housing when the sound detector and the implantable housing are both implanted in a body.
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Abstract
An apparatus and method is presented for an implanted sound sensor wirelessly communicating with an implantable medical device, or with an external monitoring device. The second sensor may be located inside a blood vessel anchored by an expandable stent like device, and may be drug coated. The sound sensor may be a solid-state microphone having a unidirectional characteristic and may be aimed at a selected portion of the heart, lung, or other location. There may be a network of sound sensors forming a local area network with the implantable medical device. The information from the sound sensor may be analyzed, filtered, transformed, compared to a standard and stored in the implantable device, or it may be passed on to an external location. The results of the analysis may be use to initiate a closed-loop treatment by the implantable medical device, such as cardiac pacing or defibrillation.
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28 Claims
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1. A system, comprising:
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an implantable housing including a memory circuit and an electronic communication circuit configured to communicate from within a body to an external location; and
a separate implantable biological or physiological sound detector communicatively coupled to the implantable housing when the sound detector and the implantable housing are both implanted in a body. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20)
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21. A system comprising:
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an implantable housing including;
a cardiac function management circuit; and
an electronic communication circuit configured to perform two way communication via a modulated radio frequency carrier with an external device; and
a first ultrasonic communication circuit; and
an implantable biological sound detector, adapted to be located remote from the implantable housing, the sound detector comprising a second ultrasonic communication circuit for ultrasonic communication with the first ultrasonic communication circuit, the remote sound detector including an anchor to secure the remote sound detector at a desired location. - View Dependent Claims (22, 23, 24)
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25. A method comprising:
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detecting internal physiological acoustic waves using a first implantable medical device at a first location within a body; and
wirelessly communicating information obtained from the acoustic waves from the first implantable medical device at the first location to a separate second implantable medical device at a second location within the body. - View Dependent Claims (26, 27, 28)
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