Cardiac Pacemakers, Inc.

Inspire Medical Systems, Inc.

Quan Ni

Kent Lee

Jesse W Hartley

Jeffrey E Stahmann

John Rondoni

Douglas R Daum

John D Hatlestad

Mark A Christopherson

Jaeho Kim

Yi Zhang

Stephen B Ruble

Jason J Hamann

Qingsheng Zhu

Aaron R McCabe

Allan Charles Shuros

Avram Scheiner

Dan Li

Imad Libbus

Yanting Dong

Bruce H KenKnight

Jiang Ding

James O Gilkerson

Shantha Arcot-Krishnamurthy

Marina V Brockway

Julio Cesar Spinelli

Yinghong Yu

Krzysztof Z Siejko

Rodney W Salo

Joseph M Pastore

Eric G Lovett

Weiying Zhao

Timothy P Herbert

Geng Zhang

Blake D Johnson

Jonathan T Kwok

Yachuan Pu

Darrell Wagner

Jeff E Stahmann

Ankur Garg

Zoe Hajenga

Xuan K Wei

David Todd Dieken

Kenneth L Baker

Kevin Verzal

Michael J Stucky

Kenneth Tobacman

Dave Dieken

Michael A Querimit

Corey J Miklos

Kevin John Stalsberg

Tamara Colette Baynham

Yunlong Zhang

Shelley Marie Cazares

Andres Belalcazar

Loell Boyce Moon

Christopher A Hartemink

Christopher Thorp

Qian Zhong

Everardo Villasenor

Zoe Harris

Michael Hedin

Krzysztof J Siejko

Nicole C Moskowitz

Wondimeneh Tesfayesus

Devices and/or methods for treating sleep disordered breathing may include stimulation of a single nerve, multiple nerves, as well as other tissues relating to upper airway patency.

Single or multiple nerve stimulation to treat sleep disordered breathing

A programmer is configured to effect communication with, and programming of, an implantable medical device configured to deliver neurostimulation therapy. The programmer comprises a display, such as touch screen display, and a processor comprising memory and coupled to the display. An interface is coupled to the processor and configured to receive therapy settings data indicative of current therapy settings operative in the implantable medical device and any modifications made to the therapy settings by a patient. The processor is configured to determine if one or more therapy settings have been modified since the last interaction with the patient, and coordinate displaying of the current therapy settings, the one or more therapy settings modified by the patient, and a previous state of the one or more therapy settings modified by the patient on the display.

System and method of monitoring for and reporting on patient-made stimulation therapy programming changes

A method of implanting includes inserting a stimulation element into a head-and-neck region and positioning an electrode array of the stimulation element relative to a target portion of a nerve.

Percutaneous access for systems and methods of treating sleep-related disordered breathing

A method for treating sleep disordered breathing includes electrically stimulating an upper airway patency-related nerve via implantable stimulation elements.

Method of treating sleep disordered breathing

A system and method for identifying a stimulation location on a nerve is disclosed. The system includes an image-based navigation interface used to facilitate advancing a stimulation element within a patient body toward a target nerve stimulation site. Using the system one determines, separately for each potential target nerve stimulation site, a neuromuscular response of muscles produced upon applying a stimulation signal at the respective separate potential target stimulation sites. The image-based navigation interface is configured to display a graphic identification of which muscles were activated for each respective potential target nerve stimulation site upon applying the stimulation signal.

Method and system for identifying a location for nerve stimulation

A device for treating sleep disordered breathing includes a stimulation element to stimulate an airway patency related nerve.

Stimulation for treating sleep disordered breathing

An electrode cuff includes a first elongate portion and a second elongate portion. The first elongate portion is configured to removably contact a length of a nerve while the second elongate portion extends outwardly at an angle relative to a first side edge of the first elongate portion to at least partially wrap about the nerve. The electrode cuff includes a first series of electrodes that is spaced apart longitudinally along the first elongate portion. A width of the second elongate portion is sized to fit between adjacent branches extending from a nerve.

Nerve cuff

A device for treating sleep disordered breathing includes a stimulation element to stimulate an airway-patency-related nerve.

A system and method for treating sleep apnea includes inserting an implantable pulse generator subcutaneously within a body of a patient and connecting a lead to the pulse generator. The lead is inserted within the vasculature and advanced transvenously through the vasculature until a stimulation portion of the lead becomes positioned in close proximity to the hypoglossal nerve. A nerve-stimulation signal is applied to the hypoglossal nerve via the stimulation portion of the lead.

Transvenous method of treating sleep apnea

A stimulation protocol determination system includes an input module and a selector module. The input module is provided to receive an indication of an upper airway flow limitation via sensed respiratory effort information. The selection module is provided to automatically select, based on the indicated upper airway flow limitation, a stimulation protocol.

Method and system for applying stimulation in treating sleep disordered breathing

According to various method embodiments, a person is indicated for a therapy to treat a cardiovascular disease, and the therapy is delivered to the person to treat the cardiovascular disease. Delivering the therapy includes delivering a vagal stimulation therapy (VST) to a vagus nerve of the person at a therapeutically-effective intensity for the cardiovascular disease that is below an upper boundary at which upper boundary the VST would lower an intrinsic heart rate during the VST.

Systems and methods for delivering vagal nerve stimulation

A first sensing element including an accelerometer-based sensor for sleep disordered breathing (SDB) care.

Accelerometer-based sensing for sleep disordered breathing (SDB) care

A patient control is disclosed that facilitates operation of an implantable medical device.

Patient control for implantable medical device

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Shoreview, MN, United States of America

Quan Ni