Patents Assigned to Medtronic, In
  • Patent number: 11992679
    Abstract: A monitoring system may include a processor and display system for displaying results from the monitoring. A user may be in a sterile field away from the processor and display system and selected input devices. A controller may be physically connected to the monitoring system from the sterile field to allow the user to control the monitoring system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 18, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 28, 2024
    Assignee: Medtronic Xomed, Inc.
    Inventors: John R. Prisco, David C. Hacker, Matthew L. Cantwell, Anirudhan Narasimhan, Amber A. Katada
  • Patent number: 11992274
    Abstract: A surgical navigation and planning system is disclosed. The system may include at least one processor, and a storage medium storing programming instructions. The programming instructions may cause the processor to receive patient-specific vertebrae information include at least one image which may be acquired by an X-ray. The system may perform segmentation of objects in the at least one image and automatically select a set of objects for planning an optimal trajectory to a location proximal the vertebrae level. The system may determine boundary dimensions of an interbody implant, a first entry incision location and a first path for the interbody implant from the first entry incision location to the location proximal the vertebrae level. The system may calculate a plurality of clearance distances between the boundary dimensions and the set of objects. The set of objects may include the psoas muscle, Aorta, and/or Vena Cava.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 8, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 28, 2024
    Assignee: MEDTRONIC NAVIGATION, INC.
    Inventors: Rowena O. Vigh, Nikhil Mahendra, Andrew J. Wald
  • Patent number: 11995838
    Abstract: An image segmentation system and display is disclosed. The system may be operated or configured to generate a segmentation of a member from an image. The image and/or the segmentation may be displayed for viewing by a user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 18, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 28, 2024
    Assignee: Medtronic Navigation, Inc.
    Inventors: Patrick A. Helm, Andrew Wald, Shai Ronen
  • Patent number: 11992657
    Abstract: A medical device may determine an occurrence of an alert condition. The medical device may transmit, to a separate device, data indicative of the occurrence of the alert condition. After transmitting the data indicative of the occurrence of the alert condition to the separate device, the medical device may determine, based on an audio signal generated by a microphone of the medical device, that the separate device has outputted an audible alert. The audio signal may correspond to audio captured by the microphone.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 2, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 28, 2024
    Assignee: MEDTRONIC MINIMED, INC.
    Inventor: Alexander S. Campbell
  • Patent number: 11992642
    Abstract: An intrathecal drug delivery system includes: an intrathecal drug delivery device configured to deliver a fluid containing one or more pharmaceutical agents intrathecally to the cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) within a spinal canal of a patient and a deep brain catheter having an elongated body, extending from a distal end implanted within a deep brain structure of a patient and a proximal end positioned within the subarachnoid space directly adjacent to the brain to provide a passageway, via an inner lumen, between the subarachnoid space and the deep brain structure. The drug delivery system is configured to transport the pharmaceutical agent(s), using diffusion and the pulsatile flow of the CSF, through the deep brain catheter from the subarachnoid space to the deep brain structure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 30, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 28, 2024
    Assignee: Medtronic, Inc.
    Inventor: Jeffrey Bodner
  • Patent number: 11986388
    Abstract: Embodiments hereof relate methods of delivering a valve prosthesis to an annulus of a native valve of a heart. A valve delivery system is introduced into a ventricle of the heart via a ventricular wall of the heart. The valve delivery system has a displacement component at the distal portion thereof. The valve prosthesis is in a delivery configuration and the displacement component is in a delivery state in which the displacement component has a first outer diameter. While the valve prosthesis is in the delivery configuration, the displacement component of the valve delivery system is radially expanded into an expanded state in which the displacement component has a second outer diameter greater than the first outer diameter. The valve delivery system is advanced towards the annulus of the native valve of the heart with the displacement component in the expanded state to displace chordae tendineae.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 11, 2022
    Date of Patent: May 21, 2024
    Assignee: MEDTRONIC VASCULAR, INC.
    Inventor: Brendan Vaughan
  • Patent number: 11986207
    Abstract: A tissue-removing catheter for removing tissue in a body lumen includes an elongate body and a tissue-removing element mounted on a distal end portion of the elongate body. The tissue-removing element is configured to remove the tissue as the tissue-removing element is rotated by the elongate body within the body lumen. An inner liner is received within the elongate body. The inner liner defines a guidewire lumen. The inner liner isolates an interior of the guidewire lumen from the elongate body and tissue-removing element such that rotational forces are not transferred from the elongate body and tissue-removing element to the interior of the guidewire lumen when the elongate body and tissue-removing element are rotated during removal of tissue from the body lumen.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 2, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 21, 2024
    Assignee: MEDTRONIC VASCULAR, INC.
    Inventors: Aram Jamous, John Kelly, Matthew Fleming, Colin William Meade, Grainne Teresa Carroll
  • Patent number: 11986192
    Abstract: Surgical instruments with ultrasonic cutting and sensing capabilities, as well as related systems and methods, are disclosed herein. In one aspect, the present disclosure provides a surgical instrument including a housing; an ultrasonic transducer contained in the housing and capable of acting as an ultrasonic receiver; an output member at least partially received in the housing and configured to be driven by the ultrasonic transducer; a dissection head having an attachment portion configured to be selectively driven by the ultrasonic transducer; and a controller operable to initiate and stop the ultrasonic transducer according to an alternating duty cycle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 1, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 21, 2024
    Assignee: Medtronic Xomed, Inc.
    Inventor: Manfred K. Luedi
  • Patent number: 11986213
    Abstract: In some examples, a system includes a medical device comprising an elongate body configured to advance through layers of tissue of a patient, a lumen extending through the elongate body, a fluid line configured to supply fluid to the lumen, and a pressure sensor positioned within the lumen or the fluid line. The system may further include processing circuitry configured to receive, from the pressure sensor, a signal corresponding to the pressure of the fluid at each of a plurality of time points, determine, for each time point: a corresponding amplitude value of the signal, a difference between two amplitude values of the signal, an amplitude oscillation status of the signal, a position of the elongate body based on the difference and the amplitude oscillation status; and provide an indication of the position of the elongate body relative to the layers of tissue.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 1, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 21, 2024
    Assignee: Medtronic, Inc
    Inventors: Vladimir P. Nikolski, Linnea R. Lentz, Amy E. Thompson-Nauman, Teresa A Whitman, Mark T. Marshall
  • Patent number: 11986633
    Abstract: Techniques related to temporary setpoint values are disclosed. The techniques may involve causing operation of a fluid delivery device in a closed-loop mode for automatically delivering fluid based on a difference between a first setpoint value and an analyte concentration value during operation of the fluid delivery device in the closed-loop mode. Additionally, the techniques may involve obtaining a second setpoint value. The second setpoint value may be a temporary setpoint value to be used for a period of time to regulate fluid delivery, and the second setpoint value may be greater than the first setpoint value. The techniques may further involve causing operation of the fluid delivery device for automatically reducing fluid delivery for the period of time based on the second setpoint value.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 8, 2023
    Date of Patent: May 21, 2024
    Assignee: MEDTRONIC MINIMED, INC.
    Inventors: Benyamin Grosman, Di Wu, Anirban Roy, Neha J. Parikh
  • Patent number: 11986625
    Abstract: In some aspects, systems, devices, and techniques for programming a medical fluid delivery device are described. In one example, the disclosure relates to a system including a medical fluid delivery device configured to deliver a therapeutic agent to a patient, and a processor. The processor may be configured to receive a proposed therapy dosing program that defines a fluid therapy for delivery to a patient via a medical fluid delivery device for a first period of time, determine a total dosage over a second period of time, where the second period of time at least partially overlaps the first period of time, and compare the total dosage over the second period of time to a reference dosage.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 20, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 21, 2024
    Assignee: Medtronic, Inc.
    Inventor: Touby A. Drew
  • Patent number: 11986629
    Abstract: A medical device system and related methods of automatically adjusting control parameters of a medical device are disclosed. One method involves obtaining data pertaining to a physiological condition of a patient during operation of the medical device in accordance with the operating mode, determining a plurality of adjusted values for the control parameter based at least in part on the data, determining a respective cost associated with each respective adjusted value for the control parameter based at least in part on the data using a cost function, identifying, from among the plurality of adjusted values, an optimized value from among the plurality of adjusted values, wherein the optimized value has a minimum cost associated therewith from among the plurality of costs, and updating the control parameter at the medical device to the optimized value.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 11, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 21, 2024
    Assignee: MEDTRONIC MINIMED, INC.
    Inventors: Di Wu, Benyamin Grosman, Louis J. Lintereur, Anirban Roy, Neha J. Parikh, Patrick E. Weydt, Ali Dianaty
  • Patent number: 11986408
    Abstract: A continuous wire stent includes a wire bent into a waveform and spirally wrapped into a helix having a plurality of bands that form a hollow cylindrical shape. The waveform includes a plurality of waves, each wave including a first outer crown including a first intrados, a second outer crown including a second intrados facing the first intrados, a first mid-crown disposed between the first outer crown and the second outer crown, a second mid-crown disposed between the second outer crown and an outer crown of a next wave of the waveform, a first strut connecting the first outer crown to the first mid-crown, a second strut connecting the first mid-crown to the second outer crown, a third strut connecting the second outer crown to the second mid-crown, and a fourth strut connecting the second mid-crown to the outer crown in the next wave of the waveform.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 21, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 21, 2024
    Assignee: Medtronic Vascular, Inc.
    Inventors: Carlos Lima, Richard Bliss
  • Patent number: 11986231
    Abstract: A cryotreatment catheter for treating tissue. The catheter may include an outer elongate body, a balloon treatment element coupled to the distal portion of the elongate body with a plurality of balloon lobes radially arranged around the outer elongate body, an inner elongate body rotatably movable within the lumen of the outer elongate body, and a fluid delivery lumen located within the lumen of the outer elongate body and at least partially within the lumen of the inner elongate body. The fluid delivery lumen may be branched at a distal portion into a plurality of linear segments, each linear segment being in fluid communication with one of the plurality of balloon lobes. Each of the balloon lobes may be inflated independently of each other by the linear segments of the fluid delivery lumen.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 20, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 21, 2024
    Assignee: Medtronic CryoCath LP
    Inventors: Rahmani Sara, Lies Safar Remali
  • Patent number: 11986648
    Abstract: Anchoring mechanisms for an implantable electrical medical lead that is positioned within a substernal space are disclosed. The anchoring mechanisms fixedly-position a distal portion of the lead, that is implanted in the substernal space.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 27, 2022
    Date of Patent: May 21, 2024
    Assignee: Medtronic, Inc.
    Inventors: Amy E. Thompson-Nauman, Melissa G. T. Christie
  • Patent number: 11986288
    Abstract: Described here are patches and methods for measuring glucose in sweat (and tears and the like). In general, the patches comprise an adhesive layer adapted to bond to skin of an individual, a substrate layer disposed over the adhesive layer and comprising a glucose sensing complex including a chromogen that changes color in the presence of certain concentrations of glucose, and a cover. In typical embodiments, the substrate layer has elements formed to direct and accumulate sweat that migrates from the skin of the individual to the glucose sensing complex. Methods of using the invention can comprise cleaning the skin surface, collecting sweat in a patch comprising this microfluidic constellation of elements, and observing concentrations of glucose collected in the sweat, for example either visually, or by using a smartphone or other computer processing device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 5, 2018
    Date of Patent: May 21, 2024
    Assignee: MEDTRONIC MINIMED, INC.
    Inventors: Ashwin K. Rao, Rebecca K. Gottlieb, Quyen Ong
  • Patent number: 11986631
    Abstract: Techniques for modeling therapy fields for therapy delivered by medical devices are described. Each therapy field model is based on a set of therapy parameters and represents where therapy will propagate from the therapy system delivering therapy according to the set of therapy parameters. Therapy field models may be useful in guiding the modification of therapy parameters. As one example, a processor compares an algorithmic model of a therapy field to a reference therapy field and adjusts at least one therapy parameter based on the comparison. As another example, a processor adjusts at least one therapy parameter to increase an operating efficiency of the therapy system while substantially maintaining the modeled therapy field.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 14, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 21, 2024
    Assignee: Medtronic, Inc.
    Inventors: Martin T. Gerber, John C. Rondoni
  • Patent number: 11990236
    Abstract: One or more processors may be configured to detect whether a patient with diabetes is operating a vehicle based on one or more detected gestures. Based on the detection of operating the vehicle, the one or more processors may cause a patient device to output alerts according to a driving alert protocol. In another example, based on the detection of operating the vehicle, one or more processors may cause an insulin pump to operate according to a driving therapy protocol.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 27, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 21, 2024
    Assignee: Medtronic MiniMed, Inc.
    Inventors: Patrick E. Weydt, Pratik J. Agrawal, Louis J. Lintereur, Lavie Golenberg, David Dunleavy
  • Patent number: 11986663
    Abstract: A user interface of a computing device for programming a medical device configured to review historical user session data while disconnected from the medical device. During a programming session, the user interface on the computing device may include features to control the functionality of the medical device as well as view and manipulate available data stored at the medical device. The user interface may interactively view screens and features and manipulate data using the programming user interface, e.g., as if the external programming device were in a live programming session with the medical device, but while disconnected from the medical device and not in a live programming session. As one example, the user interface of the external programming device may permit flexible, extensive manipulation and viewing of sensed signals, patient events, and operational information, such as patient adjustments made over time or coincident with particular signals or events.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 10, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 21, 2024
    Assignee: Medtronic, Inc.
    Inventors: Thomas L. Chouinard, Evan D. Schnell, Karan Chitkara, Lukas Valine, Ilan D. Gordon
  • Patent number: D1028227
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 6, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 21, 2024
    Assignee: Medtronic, Inc.
    Inventors: Andrew J. Ries, Kamal Deep Mothilal, Craig Wiklund, Kris A Peterson, Hui Jin, Kathryn J. Moore