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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:
Apr. 19, 2011
Filed:
Oct. 20, 2006
Applicants:
Volker Lang, West Linn, OR (US);
Kurt Swenson, Dayton, OR (US);
Jim Nelson, Lake Oswego, OR (US);
Inventors:
Assignee:
Biotronik CRM Patent AG, Baar, CH;
Attorneys:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
A61N 1/08 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
An implantable cardiac device includes a housing (), pulse generator () therein to generate physiologically effective electrical pulses, a shock lead (), externally of the housing (), connectable to the pulse generator () and implantable into a patient's body to apply physiologically effective electrical pulses to the patient's body, a monitor () to automatically detect a lead condition as to whether the shock lead () is implanted or not, and control (), which due to the detected lead condition automatically enables or disables the pulse generator ().