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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. 18, 2003
Filed:
Apr. 30, 2001
Applicant:
Inventor:
Harry B. A. Kerver, Duiven, NL;
Assignee:
Medtronic, Inc., Minneapolis, MN (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
A61N 1/365 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
A61N 1/365 ;
Abstract
A method and system for pacing cardiac tissue is provided. An implantable medical device is implanted having an initial pacing function value based on a current cardiac rate of the cardiac tissue at implantation. A target pacing function value, a training increment and a training period are determined. The initial pacing function value is gradually increased to the target pacing function value by the training increment during the training period.