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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:
May. 18, 1999
Filed:
Apr. 08, 1997
Applicant:
Inventors:
Mark W Kroll, Minnetonka, MN (US);
Joseph S Perttu, Chanhassen, MN (US);
Assignee:
Angeion Corporation, Minneapolis, MN (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
A61N / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
607-5 ; 607 29 ;
Abstract
A device and method for performing automatic battery maintenance as particularly applied in an implantable cardioverter defibrillator (ICD). The battery is maintained at a predetermined state-of-charge to enable charging a capacitor in the ICD to discharge high voltage pulse into a human patient via electrodes implanted in the patient.