Implantable medical device
OwnerPatrik Malmberg, Jürgen Kerstnainventors
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Abstract
An implantable medical device has a programmer for generating a programming command representative of a diagnostic status of a subject or an operation status of the medical device. The device also comprises an interface for communicating the command to a programmable, implantable RFID tag. The tag memory is reprogrammed based on the received command. A portable RFID reader is used for interrogating the RFID tag and data in the tag memory can be displayed on the reader.
Claims32
An implantable medical device comprising:
- a radio frequency identification, RFID, programmer that generates a programming command representative of a diagnostic status of a subject and/or an operation status of said implantable medical device;
- and
- an RFID interface that communicates said programming command to a programmable RFID tag.
A condition system comprising:
- an implantable programmable radio frequency identification, RFID, tag comprising a read and writable memory;
- and
- an implantable medical device comprising:
- an RFID programmer that generates a programming command representative of a diagnostic status of a subject and/or an operation status of said implantable medical device;
- and
- an RFID interface that communicates said programming command to said RFID tag for reprogramming said readable and writable memory (210).
A condition method operable in a system comprising an implantable medical device and an implantable programmable radio frequency identification, RFID, tag, said method comprising, in said implantable medical device:
- generating a programming command representative of a diagnostic status of a subject and/or an operation status of said implantable medical device;
- and
- communicating said programming command to said programmable RFID tag.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.