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US 8,478,391 B2Granted
Apparatus and method for outputting heart sounds
AssigneeCardiac Pacemakers, Inc.
InventorsAvram Scheiner, Qingsheng Zhu, Arthur L. Olive, Don Villalta
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AssigneeCardiac Pacemakers, Inc.
InventorsAvram Scheiner, Qingsheng Zhu, Arthur L. Olive, Don Villalta
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An apparatus for outputting heart sounds includes an implantable system and an external system. The implantable system includes a sensor for generating sensed signals representing detected heart sounds, an interface circuit and a control circuit for receiving the sensed signals, generating data representing the heart sounds therefrom, and transmitting the data to the external system via the interface circuit. The external system includes an interface circuit for communicating with the implantable system, and a control circuit for receiving the data representing the heart sounds and for generating control signals that cause an output device to generate outputs representing the sounds. The implantable system may also include a sensor(s) for detecting cardiac electrical signals. In this case, outputs representing the cardiac electrical signals are also output.
An external system for communicating with an implantable system configured to transmit first data representative of heart sounds and second data representative of cardiac electrical signals to the external system, comprising:
A method of outputting heart sounds and cardiac electrical signals using data transmitted from an implantable system, comprising:
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.