Method and Apparatus for Generating Electrotherapeutic or Electrodiagnostic Waveforms

• US 20130060304A1
• Filed: 11/02/2012
• Published: 03/07/2013
• Est. Priority Date: 11/02/2012
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: 4Front Technologies IP
• Original Assignee: Brian D. Wichner
• Inventors: LaTendresse, Travis Daniel, Wichner, Brain D.
• Application Number:
  US13/668,042
• Publication Number:
  US 20130060304A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 607/59
• CPC Class Codes: A61N 1/36031 using physiological parameters for adjustment
• CPC Class Codes: A61N 1/36034 specified by the stimulation parameters

Abstract

Subject matter includes a device comprising: an input port to receive a waveform file for a waveform to be electrically applied to one or more patients via an output port; and electronics configured to: generate the waveform having a shape, magnitude, or frequency based, at least in part, on the waveform file; and provide the waveform to the output port.

Claims

1. A device comprising:

an input port to receive a waveform file for a waveform from a source external to said device, said waveform to be electrically applied to one or more patients via an output port; and

electronics configured to;

generate said waveform having a shape, magnitude, or frequency based, at least in part, on said waveform file; and

provide said waveform to said output port.

2. The device of claim 1, wherein said electronics are further configured to:

generate said waveform having a shape, magnitude, or frequency based, at least in part, on said waveform file and on patient information regarding said one or more patients, wherein said patient information comprises one or more of;

body weight, age, sex, heart condition, injury status, injury history, health history, and history of treatment using said device.

3. The device of claim 1, wherein said waveform file comprises an expirable waveform file that expires after a predetermined time that said waveform is applied to said one or more patients.

4. The device of claim 3, wherein said waveform file further comprises a time code that indicates an expiration time of said expirable waveform file;

and said device further comprises;

a clock to measure an elapsed time that said waveform is applied to said one or more patients;

means for determining whether said elapsed time exceeds said expiration time; and

a user interface to indicate if said expirable waveform file is expired.

5. The device of claim 4, wherein said user interface allows a user to enter code to instruct said device to extend said expiration time.

6. The device of claim 1, wherein said input port comprises a universal serial bus (USB) port.

7. The device of claim 1, wherein said user interface comprises a display.

8. The device of claim 1, wherein said device comprises a mobile phone.

9. The device of claim 8, wherein said waveform comprises a microcurrent waveform.

10. A method comprising:

receiving an order from a client for a waveform file comprising code representative of a waveform to be applied by a device to one or more patients; and

electronically transmitting or mailing a digital signal representative of said waveform file via the Internet to said client.

11. The method of claim 10, wherein said waveform file comprises instructions for said device to generate said waveform having a shape, magnitude, or frequency based, at least in part, on one or more characteristics of said one or more patients, wherein said one or more characteristics comprise one or more of:

body weight, age, sex, heart condition, injury status, injury history, health history, and history of treatment using said device.

12. The method of claim 10, wherein said waveform file comprises an address code that identifies said client.

13. The method of claim 10, wherein said waveform file comprises a time code that indicates an expiration time of said waveform file.

14. The method of claim 10, wherein said order comprises a renewal order to add time to said expiration time of said waveform file.

15. The method of claim 10, wherein said waveform is approved by a regulatory entity.

16. A method of updating performance characteristics of a device, the method comprising:

placing an order to a provider for a waveform to be electrically applied by a device to one or more patients;

receiving a waveform file comprising digital signals representative of said waveform;

providing said waveform file to said device; and

electrically applying said waveform using said device to said one or more patients.

17. The method of claim 16, wherein said receiving said waveform file comprises receiving said waveform file via the Internet;

18. The method of claim 16, wherein said providing said waveform file to said device further comprises:

storing the received waveform file in a memory device; and

connecting said memory device to said device

19. The method of claim 16, wherein said waveform file comprises an expirable waveform file that expires after a predetermined time that said waveform is applied to said one or more patients.

20. The method of claim 19, wherein said order comprises a renewal order to add time to an expiration time of said expirable waveform file.