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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 19, 2013
Filed:
Sep. 12, 2005
Applicant:
Glenn O. Spital, Granada Hills, CA (US);
Inventor:
Glenn O. Spital, Granada Hills, CA (US);
Assignee:
Medtronic, Inc., Minneapolis, MN (US);
Attorneys:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
A61N 1/08 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
A communication signal is communicated between an implantable medical device including an implant transceiver and an external unit including an external unit transceiver. At least one of the transceivers includes a receiver capable of sampling a communication channel for the communication signal at times based on a macro sampling interval and a micro sampling interval. The sampling includes a series of micro samples. The duration of the series of micro samples is less than the macro sampling interval.