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US 11,305,113 B2Granted
Nocturia reduction system
AssigneeNeurostim Solutions, LLC
InventorHoo-Min D. Toong
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Abstract
Example inventions reduce nocturia for a user. Examples determine that the user is sleeping, determine that the user has an urge to urinate, and then apply external electrical stimulation to a tibial nerve of the user.
Claims22
A method of reducing nocturia for a user, the method comprising:
- affixing a patch externally on a dermis of a user adjacent to a tibial nerve of the user;
- determining that the user is sleeping during a sleep period that comprises a beginning sleep period and an ending sleep period;
- while the user is sleeping, anticipating that the user may experience an urge to urinate based on detecting a state of a bladder of the user;
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- while the user is sleeping during the sleep period and in response to anticipating that the user may experience the urge to urinate, applying external electrical stimulation to the tibial nerve of the user via the patch, the external electrical stimulation adapted to cause the anticipated urge to urinate to be suppressed and the applying comprising an initial electrical stimulation that begins only during the sleep period and only in response to the anticipation that the user may experience the urge to urinate.
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A nocturia reduction system comprising:
- a patch configured to be coupled to an ankle of a user and comprising a processor, electrodes and a communication device, the patch comprising a flexible substrate, the processor, the electrodes and the communication device directly coupled to the substrate;
- a bladder monitoring device configured to determine a state of a bladder of the user while the user is sleeping to anticipate that the user may experience an urge to urinate;
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- a sleep detection device configured to determine a sleep state of the user comprising determining that the user is sleeping during a sleep period that comprises a beginning sleep period and an ending sleep period;
- the patch further configured to apply external electrical stimulation via the electrodes to a tibial nerve of the user in response to an activation signal while the user is sleeping during the sleep period and in response to anticipating that the user may experience the urge to urinate, the external electrical stimulation adapted to cause the anticipated urge to urinate to be suppressed and the applying comprising an initial electrical stimulation that begins only during the sleep period and only in response to the anticipation that the user may experience the urge to urinate.
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A non-transitory computer readable medium having instructions stored thereon that, when executed by one or more processors, cause the processors to reduce nocturia for a user via a patch externally affixed on a dermis of a user adjacent to a tibial nerve of the user, the reducing comprising:
- determining that the user is sleeping during a sleep period that comprises a beginning sleep period and an ending sleep period;
- while the user is sleeping, anticipating that the user may experience an urge to urinate based on detecting a state of a bladder of the user;
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- while the user is sleeping during the sleep period and in response to anticipating that the user may experience the urge to urinate, applying external electrical stimulation to the tibial nerve of the user via the patch, the external electrical stimulation adapted to cause the anticipated urge to urinate to be suppressed and the applying comprising an initial electrical stimulation that begins only during the sleep period and only in response to the anticipation that the user may experience the urge to urinate.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.