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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 01, 2013
Filed:
May. 25, 2010
Nader Najafi, Ann Arbor, MI (US);
Catherine Hook Morgan, Ann Arbor, MI (US);
David Joseph Goetzinger, Livonia, MI (US);
Sonbol Massoud-ansari, El Dorado Hills, CA (US);
Nader Najafi, Ann Arbor, MI (US);
Catherine Hook Morgan, Ann Arbor, MI (US);
David Joseph Goetzinger, Livonia, MI (US);
Sonbol Massoud-Ansari, El Dorado Hills, CA (US);
Integrated Sensing Systems Inc., Ypsilanti, MI (US);
Abstract
An anchor for an implantable sensing device, a sensor unit formed by the anchor and sensing device, and a surgical procedure for implanting the sensor unit for monitoring a physiological parameter within a cavity of a living body, such as an intracranial physiological property. The anchor includes a shank portion and a head portion. The shank portion defines a distal end of the anchor and has a bore defining an opening at the distal end. The head portion defines a proximal end of the anchor and has a larger cross-sectional dimension than the shank portion. The sensor unit comprises the anchor and the sensing device placed and secured within the bore of the anchor so that a sensing element of the sensing device is exposed for sensing the physiological parameter within the cavity.