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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. 23, 2010
Filed:
Apr. 26, 2006
Applicants:
Ryan W. Weispfenning, St. Paul, MN (US);
Joseph C. Green, Brooklyn Park, MN (US);
David A. Furland, Arden Hills, MN (US);
Inventors:
Ryan W. Weispfenning, St. Paul, MN (US);
Joseph C. Green, Brooklyn Park, MN (US);
David A. Furland, Arden Hills, MN (US);
Assignee:
Medtronic, Inc., Minneapolis, MN (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
A61N 1/08 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
A generic device programmer network interface is disclosed. Some embodiments include multiple connectors that are configured to connect to output hardware of multiple programmers and a transmitter that is configured to automatically transmit data received from the programmers to a server. Many embodiments serve to reduce or eliminate barriers to storing IMD and patient data on a server.