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Integrated mobile phone and medical implant monitoring system and method for using the same

  • US 20120100887A1
  • Filed: 10/25/2010
  • Published: 04/26/2012
  • Est. Priority Date: 10/25/2010
  • Status: Active Grant
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1. An integrated mobile device and medical implant system comprisinga first architecture further comprising;

  • a mobile phone;

    a device implantable within the body of a user/patient, said implantable device comprising an implant coil and an implant IC hermetically sealed within a substrate;

    an electronic umbilical cord having an implant-end patch and a phone-end plug, said electronic umbilical cord providing inductive communications link between said implantable device and said mobile phone through a patch coil affixed to said implant-end patch;

    said umbilical cord further comprising a two-way near field inductive data/power transfer two-wire cable capable of carrying modulated RF data;

    a Link-ICC formed in said mobile phone between a communication port and system-on-chip chip (SOCC), or inside said SOCC, or inside application processor (AP), and capable of acting as an interface between said mobile phone and said implantable device through said electronic umbilical cord;

    wherein said Link-ICC is programmable to work in an RF-ID band to generate a carrier signal for fully differential operation for interference-free communication with said implantable device through said electronic umbilical cord, and further configured to have a power amplifier that drives the primary patch coil at said phone-end of said electronic umbilical cord, and a receive chain including a programmable attenuator, a limiting amplifier to recreate the carrier signal for mixing, filters and variable gain amplifiers (VGAs) for signal conditioning, and ADC for conversion to digital signal, a digital signal processor and control logic to extract data from said implantable device, a mobile phone interface to present said data to mobile phone application processor; and

    a mobile phone display to present the processed data to the immediate user/patient and/or an antenna to communicate the data wirelessly to a remote location.

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