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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:
Feb. 03, 1998
Filed:
Nov. 12, 1996
Applicant:
Inventors:
Chih-ming James Chiang, Highlands Ranch, CO (US);
Daniel Cooper, Hauguenau, FR;
Saul E Greenhut, Aurora, CO (US);
Assignee:
Pacesetter, Inc., Sylmar, CA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
A61N / ; A61B / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
607 32 ; 128697 ;
Abstract
A diagnostic device makes use of knowledge based rule system for making a prognosis of a cardiac malfunction based on operation parameters and/or patient characteristics received from a cardiac implant. The device generates a symptoms vector from the information received from the implant, and using the expert rules to generate an appropriate prognosis. Both pathological problems and programming problems may be detected in this manner.