Therapeutic device and method using feedback from implantable pressure sensor

• US 7,529,583 B1
• Filed: 01/12/2004
• Issued: 05/05/2009
• Est. Priority Date: 01/15/2003
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Data Sciences U K Limited (International Business Machines Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Transoma Medical, Inc.
• Inventors: Pederson, Brian D., Benditt, David G., Brockway, Brian P.
• Primary Examiner(s): SCHAETZLE, KENNEDY
• Application Number:
  US10/756,188
• Time in Patent Office: 1,940 Days
• Field of Search: 607/6, 607/9, 607/14, 607/17, 607/22, 607/23, 607/62, 607/63
• US Class Current: 607/6
• CPC Class Codes: A61N 1/36564 controlled by blood pressure
• CPC Class Codes: A61N 1/36585 controlled by two or more physical parameters
• CPC Class Codes: A61N 1/3956 Implantable devices for applying electric shocks to the heart, e.g. for cardioversion
• CPC Class Codes: A61N 1/3987 characterised by the timing or triggering of the shock

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