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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:
Jan. 25, 2000
Filed:
Dec. 03, 1997
Applicant:
Inventor:
Jaeho Kim, Redmond, WA (US);
Assignee:
InControl, Inc., Redmond, WA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
A61N / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
607-5 ;
Abstract
There is disclosed an atrial defibrillator including a lead system for sensing activity of a heart in or near at least on atrium of the heart, a detector for detecting atrial events from the sensed atrial activity, and a cardioverter for applying cardioverting electrical energy to the atria of the heart when the atria are in need of cardioversion. A timer determines time spans between successive detected atrial events and an inhibit stage precludes the cardioverter from applying cardioverting energy to the heart when a time span is greater than a predetermined limit.