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US 7,925,350 B1Granted
Systems and methods for detecting an error associated with an implantable device
AssigneeAdvanced Bionics AG
InventorLogan P. Palmer
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Abstract
Methods of detecting an error associated with an implantable device include powering up the implantable device with an external device, disabling a back-telemetry transmitter within the implanted device after the implanted device is powered up, detecting an error with the implanted device, generating a fault signal corresponding to the error with the implanted device, turning on the back-telemetry transmitter after the fault signal has been generated, and transmitting the fault signal to the external device with the back-telemetry transmitter.
Claims15
A method, comprising:
- powering up a device implanted within a patient with an external device;
- transmitting a fault signal with a back-telemetry signal within said implanted device to said external device in response to being powered up by said external device, wherein the fault signal is for the external device to verify a successful power up of the implanted device;
- disabling said back-telemetry transmitter within said implanted device after said implanted device is powered up;
- detecting an error with said implanted device;
- generating an additional fault signal corresponding to said error with said implanted device;
- turning on said back-telemetry transmitter after said fault signal has been generated;
- and transmitting said additional fault signal to said external device with said back-telemetry transmitter.
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A method comprising:
- powering up a device implanted within a patient with an external device;
- transmitting, by the implanted device, a fault signal with a back-telemetry transmitter to the external device in response to being powered up by the external device, wherein the fault signal is for the external device to verify a successful power up of the implanted device;
- verifying, by the external device, a functionality of the implanted device by detecting the fault signal;
- disabling, by the external device, the back-telemetry transmitter of the implanted device after the functionality of the implanted device is verified;
- detecting, by the implanted device, an error associated with the implanted device while the back-telemetry transmitter is disabled;
- generating, by the implanted device, another fault signal when the error is detected;
- enabling, by the implanted device, the disabled back-telemetry transmitter when the error is detected;
- and transmitting, by the implanted device, the another fault signal with the enabled back-telemetry transmitter to the external device;
- and disabling, by the implanted device, the back-telemetry transmitter after the another fault signal is received by the external device.
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A method comprising:
- transmitting, by a back-telemetry transmitter included in a device implanted within a patient, a fault signal to an external device via a back-telemetry link, wherein the fault signal is transmitted when the external device powers up the implanted device and is for the external device to verify a successful power up of the implanted device;
- disabling, by a status generator included in the implanted device, the back-telemetry transmitter after the fault signal is transmitted to the external device;
- detecting, by the status generator, an error associated with the implanted device while the back-telemetry transmitter is disabled;
- generating, by the status generator, another fault signal when the error is detected;
- enabling, by the status generator, the disabled back-telemetry transmitter when the error is detected;
- causing, by the status generator, the enabled back-telemetry transmitter to transmit the another fault signal to the external device;
- and disabling, by the status generator, the back-telemetry transmitter after the another fault signal is received by the external device.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.