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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 24, 2016
Filed:
Sep. 28, 2012
Neuropace, Inc., Mountain View, CA (US);
Brett Wingeier, San Francisco, CA (US);
Barbara Gibb, Foster City, CA (US);
Craig Baysinger, Livermore, CA (US);
Thomas Tcheng, Pleasant Hill, CA (US);
Suresh Gurunathan, Palo Alto, CA (US);
NeuroPace, Inc., Mountain View, CA (US);
Abstract
A method and system is described for ensuring a state of an active implantable medical device based on the presence and persistence of a magnetic field. The output of a magnetic field sensor is monitored. The active implantable medical device is maintained in a first state, for so long as the presence of a magnetic field is detected by the magnetic field sensor, until a first interval is surpassed. If the first interval is surpassed, then a determination is made as to whether a second interval has been surpassed. If it is determined that the second interval has not been surpassed, then the active implantable medical device is transitioned into a second state. If it is determined that the second interval has been surpassed, then it is ensured that the active implantable medical device is in a predetermined one of the first and second states.