A61N 2001/083
Monitoring integrity of contacts
Official title: {Monitoring integrity of contacts, e.g. by impedance measurement}
A61N2001/083 (Monitoring integrity of contacts) appears on 172 US grants and 249 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in A61N- Granted patents
- 172
- Published applications
- 249
- Assignees
- 84
- Inventors
- 381
- Latest grant
- 1 Sep 2026
Filings by year
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| 1997 | 1 | 0 |
| 1998 | 0 | 0 |
| 1999 | 0 | 0 |
| 2000 | 0 | 0 |
| 2001 | 0 | 0 |
| 2002 | 0 | 0 |
| 2003 | 1 | 1 |
| 2004 | 1 | 2 |
| 2005 | 0 | 1 |
| 2006 | 1 | 1 |
| 2007 | 0 | 1 |
| 2008 | 1 | 3 |
| 2009 | 3 | 2 |
| 2010 | 0 | 7 |
| 2011 | 2 | 4 |
| 2012 | 3 | 4 |
| 2013 | 6 | 9 |
| 2014 | 6 | 5 |
| 2015 | 6 | 2 |
| 2016 | 3 | 5 |
| 2017 | 6 | 6 |
| 2018 | 6 | 14 |
| 2019 | 8 | 23 |
| 2020 | 18 | 20 |
| 2021 | 14 | 33 |
| 2022 | 19 | 29 |
| 2023 | 21 | 21 |
| 2024 | 20 | 21 |
| 2025 | 17 | 24 |
| 2026 | 9 | 11 |
By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
Recent patents
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- Electrode selection based on impedance for sensing or stimulation12 May 2026US 12,623,076 B2Medtronic, Inc.
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- Electrical stimulation system fault diagnostics20 Aug 2026US 2026/0241165 A1Cochlear Limited
- Maintaining temporal resolution of evoked compound action potential (ecap) therapy data in memory constrained system18 Jun 2026US 2026/0166302 A1Medtronic, Inc.
- System and Method for Determination of Connected Neurostimulation Leads18 Jun 2026US 2026/0166323 A1Boston Scientific Neuromodulation Corporation
Most cited
By later US patents
- Method and apparatus for dynamically monitoring, detecting and diagnosing lead conditions313US 7,515,961 B2Medtronic, Inc. · 2009
- Trial neuro stimulator with lead diagnostics298US 6,687,538 B1Medtronic, Inc. · 2004
- Chopper-stabilized instrumentation amplifier for impedance measurement81US 7,391,257 B1Medtronic, Inc. · 2008
- Chopper-stabilized instrumentation amplifier for impedance measurement73US 7,622,988 B2Medtronic, Inc. · 2009
- Trial neuro stimulator with lead diagnostics52US 7,493,159 B2Medtronic, Inc. · 2009