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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:
Mar. 17, 1998
Filed:
Nov. 13, 1996
Applicant:
Inventors:
Assignee:
Pacesetter AB, Solna, SE;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G01N / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
204403 ; 204294 ; 2042 / ; 204435 ; 128635 ; 128637 ; 128642 ; 1284 / ; 128899 ;
Abstract
An implantable medical device for in vivo electrochemical measurements of blood properties, such as measurements of, inter alia, oxygen pressure, glucose and pH, avoids the problem with the reference electrodes currently in use which cause inflammatory reactions of tissue, by forming the reference electrode of carbon, preferably activated pyrolytic carbon.