General Electric Company

Nicholas P Nekich

Daniel Richard Schneidewend

Adrian F Warner

Rodger F Schmit

Claudio Patricio Mejia

Timothy P Stiemke

Linda Marie Helvick

Vivek Sachdev

Patrick Thomas Moran

David Allen Powell

In the present invention, a catheter identification system for providing information about one or more attributes of a catheter connectable to an electrophysiology (EP) recording or mapping system includes a catheter, a resistor network operably connected to the catheter, the resistor network including at least one identification resistor and an identification resistor measurement circuit operably connected to the catheter and configured to send an identification signal through the at least one resistor in the resistor network to retrieve an altered identification signal from the identification resistor, where the altered identification signal provides information on an attribute of the catheter.

Passive catheter identification and self-configuration system

In the present invention, a system that has a navigation signal delivered by one of a signal or navigation catheter or treatment catheter as directed by a controller for detection by the other of the navigation catheter or the a treatment catheter to navigate the treatment catheter to a specific point or area of interest using the detected navigation signal is provided. The system is operable in a method to perform the above utilizing the mapping function of the electrophysiology mapping and/or recorder system to energize electrodes on either the navigation catheter or treatment catheter to direct the treatment catheter to the area, region or point of interest.

Intracardiac localization and guidance system and method

In the present invention, a system and method is provided for the self-certification of third party software products for use on medical products by the customer. The system enables the customer to test, qualify, and certify a third party software product for use on a controlled medical device independent of any testing or other intervention by the manufacturer. The system can be located on the particular medical device and provides internal testing and certification mechanisms to promote/authorize third party software products onto to the device/software authorization catalog, as well as notification to the manufacturer of the customer approved addition to the device certified third party software product catalog.

Method and system for user-verifiable certification of software for medical devices

Certain embodiments of the present invention provide systems and methods for catheter input management. Certain embodiments provide a user interface system facilitating catheter monitoring. The system includes a virtual catheter input module (CIM) corresponding to and representing a physical CIM that is adapted to be connected to at least one catheter. The system also includes a configuration module establishing a catheter configuration for the virtual CIM based on a plurality of configuration settings for a catheter channel. At least one catheter channel is assigned to a virtual input port on the virtual CIM. The configuration module applies the catheter configuration for at least one catheter channel when a catheter is connected to a physical input port on the physical CIM corresponding to the virtual input port on the virtual CIM.

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Wauwatosa, WI, United States of America

Nicholas P Nekich