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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. 20, 2004
Filed:
Sep. 11, 2001
Applicant:
Inventors:
Assignee:
Biedermann Motech GmbH, , DE;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
A61F 2/64 ; A61F 2/68 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
A61F 2/64 ; A61F 2/68 ;
Abstract
A device and a method for remote maintenance of an electronically controllable prosthesis ( ) are provided. The prosthesis comprises a controller in which operating and/or movement data characterizing the prosthesis are detected and are then transmitted to a remote maintenance device ( ) with a storage and evaluation unit ( ). Remote maintenance of the prosthesis using the detected data is possible via a remotely located remote control unit ( ) that can access the storage and evaluation unit via the telephone network. Corrected operational data are transmitted from the storage and evaluation unit ( ) back to the controller of the prosthesis.