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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 16, 1988
Filed:
Dec. 09, 1987
Applicant:
Inventor:
Anders Lekholm, Bromma, SE;
Assignee:
Siemens Aktiengesellschaft, Berlin and Munich, DE;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
A61N / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
1284 / ;
Abstract
A heart pacemaker for supplying pacing signals to a heart includes circuitry for controlling operation of the pacemaker in dependence upon the occurrence of heart sounds. The pacemaker includes a detector for such sounds and circuitry for generating a control signal therefrom which is supplied to the basic pacing circuitry.