Medtronic Xomed, Inc.

Ryan B Sefkow

Avram Scheiner

Richard T Stone

Phillip C Falkner

James B Hissong

Jeffrey P Bodner

Adam J Rivard

Robert T Sandgren

Walton W Baxter

A first medical device for obstructive sleep apnea therapy includes therapy delivery circuitry coupled to a first set of electrodes implantable proximate to a first hypoglossal nerve within a tongue of the patient and configured to deliver a first electrical stimulation signal to the first hypoglossal nerve that causes the tongue of the patient to advance and includes information to communicate to a second medical device implantable within the head or neck of the patient and coupled to a second set of electrodes implantable proximate to a second hypoglossal nerve within the tongue of the patient; and sensing circuitry coupled to the first set of electrodes and configured to receive a second electrical stimulation signal, delivered to the second hypoglossal nerve by the second medical device, that includes information that the second medical device communicates to the first medical device.

Multi-device obstructive sleep apnea (OSA) treatment

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Plymouth, MN, United States of America

Ryan B Sefkow