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US 2026/0215764 A1Published application
Portable ultrasound system for image triggering and battery consumption reduction
AssigneeMedtronic, Inc.
InventorsJulio Jenaro Rodriguez, Samiksha Tiwari
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Abstract
An example cardiac monitor includes a low-power cardiac sensor and an ultrasound array. A processor is configured to perform feature extraction of the data from the low-power cardiac sensor to detect an onset of an arrhythmia condition. When the arrhythmia condition is detected, the processor triggers an ultrasound measurement using the ultrasound array based on detection of the onset of the arrhythmia condition.
Claims15
An apparatus comprising:
- a processor;
- a cardiac sensor;
- and
- an ultrasound sensor,
- wherein the processor is configured to:
- detect an onset of an arrhythmia condition using the cardiac sensor;
- and
- trigger an ultrasound measurement using the ultrasound sensor based on detection of the onset of the arrhythmia condition using the cardiac sensor.
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A medical device system comprising:
- an implantable medical device comprising:
- a plurality of electrodes to configured detect a cardiac electrical signal of a patient,
- communication circuitry configured to communicate with at least one other device;
- and
- processing circuitry configured to:
- identify a cardiac episode in the cardiac electrical signal of the patient, and
- transmit an instruction for an external device to begin monitoring the cardiac episode via a sensor of the external device.
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A sensor patch comprising:
- a sensor device;
- a power supply;
- and
- a processor configured to:
- receive an indication that a cardiac sensor has detected a cardiac event in a patient,
- utilize the sensor device to produce a measurement of the cardiac event, whereby a power draw on the power supply is increased, and
- cease utilization of the sensor device after the measurement of the cardiac event is produced, whereby a power draw on the power supply is decreased.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.