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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 17, 2020
Filed:
Dec. 21, 2017
Medtronic Monitoring, Inc., San Jose, CA (US);
Arthur Lai, Minnetonka, MN (US);
Jonathan Engel, Minneapolis, MN (US);
Senthil Swaminathan, St. Paul, MN (US);
Thomas Piaget, St. Paul, MN (US);
Brett A. Landrum, Shoreview, MN (US);
Scott Williams, Minneapolis, MN (US);
Abhi Chavan, Maple Grove, MN (US);
Medtronic Monitoring, Inc., San Jose, CA (US);
Abstract
A patient monitoring device includes reusable and disposable portions. The disposable portion includes two or more electrodes for coupling to the skin of the patient, a battery, and a first set of electrical contacts. The reusable portion includes a processor, memory, a second set of electrical contacts, and sensing circuitry coupled to the at least two electrodes, wherein the reusable portion is mechanically coupleable to the disposable portion and wherein the reusable portion is electrically coupleable to the disposable portion through the first and second electrical contacts. The sensing circuitry and the processor are powered from the battery through the coupled first and second electrical contacts, and wherein when the reusable portion and the disposable portion are mechanically uncoupled after having been mechanically coupled, the disposable portion is rendered unusable by the process of mechanically uncoupling the reusable portion and the disposable portion.