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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 19, 2017
Filed:
Apr. 12, 2006
Applicant:
Brian D. Pederson, Plymouth, MN (US);
Inventor:
Brian D. Pederson, Plymouth, MN (US);
Assignee:
Medtronic ATS Medical Inc., Minneapolis, MN (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
A61N 1/20 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
A61N 1/20 (2013.01);
Abstract
A system and method for conditioning surfaces of a body in vivo includes providing an electrical energy source, coupling the electric energy source to the surface, and delivering electropositive current from the electrical energy source to the surface so as to generate a sub-threshold current density on the surface. In preferred embodiments, the sub-threshold electropositive current density is between about 0.001 and about 1.0 mA/cm.