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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:
Nov. 07, 1995
Filed:
Apr. 25, 1994
Applicant:
Inventors:
Kenneth R Infinger, Redmond, WA (US);
Joseph M Bocek, Seattle, WA (US);
Assignee:
InControl, Inc., Redmond, WA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
A61N / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
607-5 ; 607-4 ; 607 14 ;
Abstract
An implantable automatic atrial defibrillator powered by a depletable battery power source conserves battery power for extending the predicted life of the defibrillator by intermittently detecting for atrial fibrillation. The atrial defibrillator includes a real time clock which, at spaced apart predetermined times, causes heart activity data to be stored in a memory. Thereafter, a normally deactivated atrial fibrillation detector is activated for processing the stored data to detect for atrial fibrillation.