Patents by Inventor Jerel K. Mueller
Jerel K. Mueller 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).
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Publication number: 20240131340Abstract: Systems and methods for generating and/or applying an adjustment for one or more parameters of a neuromodulation therapy of a user are provided. One or more physiological-based inputs of the user may be received and a therapy response score may be determined based on the one or more physiological-based inputs. At least one adjustment for one or more parameters of the neuromodulation therapy may be generated based on the therapy response score.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 16, 2023Publication date: April 25, 2024Inventors: Malgorzata Maria Straka, Annemarie K. Brinda, Juan G. Hincapie, Leonid M. Litvak, Jerel Keith Mueller, Joshua James Nedrud, Andrew Jay Cleland, Aleksandra Pavlovna Kharam, Ashwini D. Sharan
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Publication number: 20240131338Abstract: A system is provided for informing a therapeutic procedure. In some embodiments, the system may be configured to determine specific states associated with a sleep-wake cycle of a patient. Additionally, the system may be configured to measure one or more signals with cardiac activity of the patient upon detecting the specific states of the sleep-wake cycle of the patient. Subsequently, the system may be configured to determine one or more parameters for applying an electrical signal to an anatomical element of the patient based on the one or more signals with cardiac activity. In some embodiments, the system may be configured to establish a longitudinal trend of cardiac metrics for the patient based on a plurality of signals with cardiac activity for the patient measured during the specific states of the sleep-wake cycle across a plurality of days.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 21, 2023Publication date: April 25, 2024Inventors: Malgorzata Maria Straka, Annemarie K. Brinda, Juan G. Hincapie, Leonid M. Litvak, Jerel Keith Mueller, Joshua James Nedrud, Andrew Jay Cleland, Aleksandra Pavlovna Kharam
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Publication number: 20240131345Abstract: A system is provided for identifying and reducing noise in a therapeutic procedure. For example, the system may be configured to measure one or more signals with cardiac activity. The system may be configured to then identify one or more sources of noise that are distorting the one or more signals with cardiac activity and may reduce the one or more sources of noise from the one or more signals with cardiac activity. Subsequently, the system may be configured to determine one or more aggregate cardiac-derived metrics and/or save processed cardiac data based on the one or more signals with cardiac activity with the one or more sources of noise reduced. Additionally, the system may be configured to determine one or more parameters for applying an electrical signal to an anatomical element of a patient based on the one or more aggregate cardiac-derived metrics and/or saved processed cardiac data.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 26, 2023Publication date: April 25, 2024Inventors: Malgorzata Maria Straka, Annemarie K. Brinda, Juan G. Hincapie, Leonid M. Litvak, Jerel Keith Mueller, Joshua James Nedrud, Andrew Jay Cleland, Aleksandra Pavlovna Kharam, David A. Dinsmoor
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Patent number: 11964130Abstract: An implantable medical device (IMD) including a housing defining a propellant chamber, a drug reservoir located within the propellant chamber of the housing configured to receive a therapeutic fluid, a propellant gas within the propellant chamber; and a volume measurement system that includes a temperature sensor configured to measure a temperature of the propellant gas within in the propellant chamber and a pressure sensor configured to measure a pressure of the propellant gas within the propellant chamber. The volume measurement system is configured to measure the pressure and the temperature of the propellant gas to provide current volume information of the therapeutic fluid in the drug reservoir.Type: GrantFiled: December 28, 2020Date of Patent: April 23, 2024Assignee: Medtronic, Inc.Inventors: Erik J. Peterson, Jerel K. Mueller
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Publication number: 20240100342Abstract: Devices, systems, and techniques are described that use electric field imaging (often referred to as the sensed stimulation artifact representative of a delivered stimulus) as an informative feedback signal to provide closed loop control of electrical stimulation therapy. In some examples, the electric field imaging may be used in combination with other feedback signals, such as ECAP do monitor and adjust the delivered electrical stimulation therapy.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 23, 2022Publication date: March 28, 2024Inventors: Jerel K. Mueller, Leonid M. Litvak, Vinod Sharma, Katelynn M. Johnson, Jiashu Li
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Patent number: 11918802Abstract: Examples of implantable medical leads or implantable medical systems with implantable medical leads to be anchored to a sacrum are disclosed. The implantable medical leads include a lead body having a distal portion. A fixation mechanism is coupled to the distal portion. An electrode array is mechanically coupled to the fixation mechanism. In one example, the electrode array is directly coupled to the fixation mechanism. The electrode array is electrically coupled to the lead body and configured to generate a stimulation field. The fixation mechanism is configured to anchor the implantable medical lead to a sacrum and effect the stimulation field in a foramen of the sacrum.Type: GrantFiled: January 25, 2021Date of Patent: March 5, 2024Assignee: Medtronic, Inc.Inventors: Sarah J. Offutt, Juan G. Hincapie, Jerel K. Mueller, Robert T. Sandgren, Katie Bittner
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Publication number: 20230191132Abstract: Devices, systems, and techniques are disclosed for determining spatial relationships between electrodes implanted within a patient. In one example, a medical device delivers, via a first electrode, an electrical stimulus and senses, for each other electrode, a respective electrical signal indicative of the electrical stimulus. The medical device determines, for each other electrode, a respective value for each respective electrical signal. The medical device determines, based on the respective values for each respective electrical signal and values of tissue conductivity of tissues of the patient interposed between the first electrode and the other electrodes, spatial relationships between the first electrode and each other electrode of the plurality of electrodes.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 13, 2023Publication date: June 22, 2023Inventors: Jerel K. Mueller, Andrew J. Cleland
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Patent number: 11672994Abstract: The disclosure describes example devices, systems, and techniques for delivering electrical stimulation to a patient. In some examples, an IMD includes a housing having a main portion and projection extending from the main portion. The projection of the housing may carry an electrode. Stimulation circuitry may be disposed within the main portion of the housing where the stimulation circuitry may generate electrical stimulation deliverable via the electrode. Processing circuitry may be disposed within the main portion of the housing where the processing circuitry may control the stimulation circuitry to generate the electrical stimulation.Type: GrantFiled: April 24, 2020Date of Patent: June 13, 2023Assignee: Medtronic, Inc.Inventors: Thomas F. Neils, Andrew J. Cleland, Phillip C. Falkner, Kyle Dahlstrom, Jonathan C. Sell, Jerel K. Mueller, Forrest C.M. Pape
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Patent number: 11554264Abstract: Devices, systems, and techniques are disclosed for determining spatial relationships between electrodes implanted within a patient. In one example, a medical device delivers, via a first electrode, an electrical stimulus and senses, for each other electrode, a respective electrical signal indicative of the electrical stimulus. The medical device determines, for each other electrode, a respective value for each respective electrical signal. The medical device determines, based on the respective values for each respective electrical signal and values of tissue conductivity of tissues of the patient interposed between the first electrode and the other electrodes, spatial relationships between the first electrode and each other electrode of the plurality of electrodes.Type: GrantFiled: April 24, 2020Date of Patent: January 17, 2023Assignee: Medtronic, Inc.Inventors: Jerel K. Mueller, Andrew J. Cleland
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Publication number: 20220203025Abstract: An implantable medical device (IMD) including a housing defining a propellant chamber, a drug reservoir located within the propellant chamber of the housing configured to receive a therapeutic fluid, a propellant gas within the propellant chamber; and a volume measurement system that includes a temperature sensor configured to measure a temperature of the propellant gas within in the propellant chamber and a pressure sensor configured to measure a pressure of the propellant gas within the propellant chamber. The volume measurement system is configured to measure the pressure and the temperature of the propellant gas to provide current volume information of the therapeutic fluid in the drug reservoir.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 28, 2020Publication date: June 30, 2022Inventors: Erik J. Peterson, Jerel K. Mueller
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Publication number: 20220152402Abstract: An implantable electrical stimulation device including an implant sized and configured to be implanted subcutaneously, the implant being configured to rectify a received pulse train of ultrasound into a single electrical pulse configured to stimulate a tibial nerve of a patient.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 25, 2020Publication date: May 19, 2022Inventors: Jerel K. Mueller, Sarah J. Offutt, Jamu K. Alford, Douglas S. Cerny
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Publication number: 20220096738Abstract: An implantable medical device (IMD) includes a drug reservoir located within a reservoir chamber of the IMD that includes a first side and a second side directly opposite the first side defining a reservoir volume there between. The IMD further includes and a volume sensor system including an ultrasound transmitter within the reservoir chamber and positioned to transmit an ultrasound signal toward the second side at an angle relative to the second side and a plurality of ultrasound sensors adjacent to at least one of the first side or second side of the drug reservoir with each sensor positioned to selectively receive the signal from the transmitter at different reservoir volume levels to indicate a current volume capacity of the drug reservoir.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 30, 2020Publication date: March 31, 2022Inventors: Erik J. Peterson, Touby A. Drew, Jerel K. Mueller, Sarah J. Offutt, Carl M. Feller
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Publication number: 20220096846Abstract: A leadless neurostimulation device having a header unit including at least one primary electrode having a contact surface that defines an external surface of the leadless neurostimulation device, a housing including a secondary electrode positioned on the same side of the leadless neurostimulation device as the at least one primary electrode, and a anchor device including at least one suture point for securing the leadless neurostimulation device to patient tissue or at least one protrusion nub configured to create mechanical resistance that impedes relative movement between wherein the leadless neurostimulation device and the patient tissue when implanted, where the at least one primary electrode and the secondary electrode are configured to transmit an electrical stimulation signal therebetween to provide electrical stimulation therapy to a target nerve of a patient.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 24, 2021Publication date: March 31, 2022Inventors: Steven T. Deininger, Jerel K. Mueller, Todd V. Smith, Jeffrey Clayton, Thomas M. Hillebrand, Phillip C. Falkner, Jenna N. George, Sarah J. Offutt
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Patent number: 11241582Abstract: An example method includes receiving, by an implantable device and from an external device, an energy signal; transducing, by the implantable device, the energy signal into electrical power; outputting, by the implantable device and to the external device, a feedback signal that represents an absolute level of the electrical power transduced from the energy signal, wherein the feedback signal includes a first portion that represents a relative level of the electrical power transduced from the energy signal and a second portion that represents a reference voltage level; and delivering, by the implantable device, a level of electrical stimulation therapy proportional to the absolute level of the electrical power transduced from the energy signal.Type: GrantFiled: May 22, 2018Date of Patent: February 8, 2022Assignee: Medtronic, Inc.Inventors: Jamu K. Alford, Thaddeus S. Brink, Douglas S. Cerny, Sarah J. Offutt, Jerel K. Mueller
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Publication number: 20210379373Abstract: An implantable medical lead for sacral modulation therapy is disclosed. The implantable medical lead includes a lead body having a distal portion. An electrode is electrically coupled to the lead body and configured to generate a stimulation field or to sense electrical fields. A fixation mechanism is coupled to the distal portion. The fixation mechanism is configured to anchor the implantable medical lead against an interior wall of a blood vessel. The electrode can effect the stimulation field from within the vessel to stimulate a selected sacral nerve or sense electrical signals such as muscle or nerve responses. Guided implantation of the medical lead or other medical leads through the body to a nerve of interest for neurostimulation via remote sensor is also disclosed.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 17, 2021Publication date: December 9, 2021Applicant: MEDTRONIC, INC.Inventors: Juan G. Hincapie, Sarah J. Offutt, Jerel K. Mueller, Robert T. Sandgren, Katie Bittner
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Publication number: 20210330980Abstract: Devices, systems, and techniques are disclosed for determining spatial relationships between electrodes implanted within a patient. In one example, a medical device delivers, via a first electrode, an electrical stimulus and senses, for each other electrode, a respective electrical signal indicative of the electrical stimulus. The medical device determines, for each other electrode, a respective value for each respective electrical signal. The medical device determines, based on the respective values for each respective electrical signal and values of tissue conductivity of tissues of the patient interposed between the first electrode and the other electrodes, spatial relationships between the first electrode and each other electrode of the plurality of electrodes.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 24, 2020Publication date: October 28, 2021Inventors: Jerel K. Mueller, Andrew J. Cleland
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Publication number: 20210330985Abstract: The disclosure describes example devices, systems, and techniques for delivering electrical stimulation to a patient. In some examples, an IMD includes a housing having a main portion and projection extending from the main portion. The projection of the housing may carry an electrode. Stimulation circuitry may be disposed within the main portion of the housing where the stimulation circuitry may generate electrical stimulation deliverable via the electrode. Processing circuitry may be disposed within the main portion of the housing where the processing circuitry may control the stimulation circuitry to generate the electrical stimulation.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 24, 2020Publication date: October 28, 2021Inventors: Thomas F. Neils, Andrew J. Cleland, Phillip C. Falkner, Kyle Dahlstrom, Jonathan C. Sell, Jerel K. Mueller, Forrest C.M. Pape
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Publication number: 20210228868Abstract: Examples of implantable medical leads or implantable medical systems with implantable medical leads to be anchored to a sacrum are disclosed. The implantable medical leads include a lead body having a distal portion. A fixation mechanism is coupled to the distal portion. An electrode array is mechanically coupled to the fixation mechanism. In one example, the electrode array is directly coupled to the fixation mechanism. The electrode array is electrically coupled to the lead body and configured to generate a stimulation field. The fixation mechanism is configured to anchor the implantable medical lead to a sacrum and effect the stimulation field in a foramen of the sacrum.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 25, 2021Publication date: July 29, 2021Applicant: MEDTRONIC, INC.Inventors: Sarah J. Offutt, Juan G. Hincapie, Jerel K. Mueller, Robert T. Sandgren, Katie Bittner
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Publication number: 20190358460Abstract: An example method includes receiving, by an implantable device and from an external device, an energy signal; transducing, by the implantable device, the energy signal into electrical power; outputting, by the implantable device and to the external device, a feedback signal that represents an absolute level of the electrical power transduced from the energy signal, wherein the feedback signal includes a first portion that represents a relative level of the electrical power transduced from the energy signal and a second portion that represents a reference voltage level; and delivering, by the implantable device, a level of electrical stimulation therapy proportional to the absolute level of the electrical power transduced from the energy signal.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 22, 2018Publication date: November 28, 2019Inventors: Jamu K. Alford, Thaddeus S. Brink, Douglas S. Cerny, Sarah J. Offutt, Jerel K. Mueller