Patents by Inventor Christopher J. Gennaro

Christopher J. Gennaro has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Implanted device data to guide ablation therapy
    Patent number: 9061155
    Abstract: A medical device system and associated method for guiding ablation therapy sense cardiac signals using implantable electrodes and detect spontaneous cardiac events from the sensed cardiac signals. Pacing pulses are delivered and a return cycle length is measured in response to the plurality of pacing pulses. The spontaneous cardiac event is clustered with a previously detected cardiac event in response to the measured return cycle length, and a targeted ablation site is estimated in response to the measured return cycle length. A transit time interval, corresponding to a distance traversed by a depolarization associated with a last one of the plurality of pacing pulses when a reset condition occurs, is computed using the return cycle length, and the ablation site is estimated in response to the computed transit time interval.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 5, 2011
    Date of Patent: June 23, 2015
    Assignee: Medtronic, Inc.
    Inventors: Jeffrey M. Gillberg, Mark L. Brown, Christopher J. Gennaro
  • IMPLANTED DEVICE DATA TO GUIDE ABLATION THERAPY
    Publication number: 20120165811
    Abstract: A medical device system and associated method for guiding ablation therapy sense cardiac signals using implantable electrodes and detect spontaneous cardiac events from the sensed cardiac signals. Pacing pulses are delivered and a return cycle length is measured in response to the plurality of pacing pulses. The spontaneous cardiac event is clustered with a previously detected cardiac event in response to the measured return cycle length, and a targeted ablation site is estimated in response to the measured return cycle length. A transit time interval, corresponding to a distance traversed by a depolarization associated with a last one of the plurality of pacing pulses when a reset condition occurs, is computed using the return cycle length, and the ablation site is estimated in response to the computed transit time interval.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 5, 2011
    Publication date: June 28, 2012
    Inventors: Jeffrey M. Gillberg, Mark L. Brown, Christopher J. Gennaro