Patents Assigned to Medtronic
  • Patent number: 8670838
    Abstract: A medical electrical lead component includes a groove formed in a surface of the component. The medical electrical lead includes a portion of a conductor positioned within the groove and a resistance weld formed between the portion of the conductor positioned within the groove and the component. In one embodiment, the portion of the conductor positioned within the groove includes a pre-weld diameter greater than the depth of the groove.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 20, 2003
    Date of Patent: March 11, 2014
    Assignee: Medtronic, Inc.
    Inventors: Daniel R. Pavlik, Jordon D. Honeck
  • Patent number: 8670831
    Abstract: In some examples, the disclosure relates to system, devices, and techniques for delivering dorsal column stimulation. One or more locations for dorsal column stimulation may be identified based on sensed signals evoked by delivery of stimulation to a dorsal root and/or peripheral nerve of a patient. In some examples, an IMD may deliver dorsal column stimulation in combination with dorsal root stimulation to a patient to treat a patient condition.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 12, 2010
    Date of Patent: March 11, 2014
    Assignee: Medtronic, Inc.
    Inventors: Paul W. Wacnik, Lisa M. Johanek
  • Publication number: 20140067049
    Abstract: An integrated balloon dilation and valve prosthesis delivery device is provided having a capsule that is configured to surround a collapsed valve prosthesis and that contains a balloon on an exterior surface.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 5, 2012
    Publication date: March 6, 2014
    Applicant: Medtronic Vascular Galway Limited
    Inventor: Declan Costello
  • Publication number: 20140066913
    Abstract: A method and system for producing deep lesions without the production of high heat. The method generally includes ablating target tissue cells with a device in communication with an energy generator programmable to ablate tissue using heat energy, electroporation, or a combination thereof. The system generally includes a medical device having a plurality of electrodes at a distal end, and an energy generator in communication with the plurality of electrodes, the generator programmable to deliver alternating current energy between approximately 100 volts RMS and approximately 2000 volts RMS or greater. The generator is further programmable to deliver energy in unipolar mode, bipolar mode, and a combination thereof.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 6, 2012
    Publication date: March 6, 2014
    Applicant: Medtronic Ablation Frontiers LLC
    Inventor: Marshall L. SHERMAN
  • Publication number: 20140067053
    Abstract: A method for loading a prosthesis onto a delivery system includes passing a distal end of a delivery system through a first open end and a second open end of a reducing member. The method includes seating the prosthesis in a piston member of a cap by contacting a first end of the prosthesis with a first surface of the piston member and by contacting a portion of a side of the prosthesis with at least one side wall extending from the periphery of the first surface. Additionally, the method includes inserting the distal end of the delivery system into a center of the prosthesis and an opening defined by the piston member. And the method includes advancing the cap towards a reducing member such that a portion of the prosthesis seated in the piston member advances along an inner surface of the conical wall of the reducing member.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 21, 2013
    Publication date: March 6, 2014
    Applicant: Medtronic Ventor Technologies Ltd.
    Inventors: Paul Mearns, John Gallagher, Kevin O'Sullivan, Mark Casley, Pat Duane
  • Publication number: 20140066796
    Abstract: The disclosure provides a system that displays an indicator of patient posture state that changes according to posture state data. The posture state data may be transmitted from a medical device, for example, in or near real-time. In some examples, the disclosure relates to a method comprising receiving posture state data for a patient from a medical device; and presenting an indicator indicative of two or more of posture states based on the received posture state data, wherein each posture state of the two or more posture states is determined based on different detection criteria.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 11, 2013
    Publication date: March 6, 2014
    Applicant: Medtronic, Inc.
    Inventors: Jon P. Davis, Duane L. Bourget, Mandla Shongwe, Rajeev M. Sahasrabudhe
  • Publication number: 20140067050
    Abstract: Heart valve delivery systems and methods of delivering and implanting heart valves using delivery catheters are disclosed. The delivery systems can include a handle assembly which can include a first control mechanism, a second control mechanism, and a decoupling mechanism. The delivery systems can also include a delivery catheter extending from the handle assembly. The delivery catheter can include an outer shaft, which can be controlled by the first control mechanism; a prosthesis containing capsule comprising a proximal capsule portion connected to the outer shaft, and a distal capsule portion releasably coupled to the proximal capsule portion. After deploying a valve prosthesis, the capsule can be closed by activating the decoupling mechanism in the handle to rapidly close the distal and proximal capsule portions together. The delivery system can also include a centering element to guide the distal and proximal capsule portions together.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 5, 2012
    Publication date: March 6, 2014
    Applicant: Medtronic Vascula Galway Limited
    Inventors: Declan Costello, Patrick Griffin, John Gallagher, Gavin Kenny, Edmond Sheahan
  • Patent number: 8663305
    Abstract: A stent or stent-graft delivery system includes a handle having a graft cover retractor having a screw gear and a drive and quick release assembly. The drive and quick release assembly includes a proximal portion and a distal portion that are separable. The proximal portion of the drive and quick release assembly rotates in a first rotational direction about the screw gear to retract the graft cover using the screw gear. The drive and quick release assembly transitions from retraction using the engagement with the screw gear to retraction by sliding by the user grasping the distal portion instead of the proximal portion, and sliding the proximal portion only along the screw gear. In transitioning from using the screw gear to sliding along screw gear, it unnecessary to push any button and unnecessary for the user to remove her/his hand from the assembly.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 20, 2010
    Date of Patent: March 4, 2014
    Assignee: Medtronic Vascular, Inc.
    Inventor: Jeffery Argentine
  • Patent number: 8663201
    Abstract: An infusion system that includes a controller device and a communication system to provide for two-way communication between the controller device and an infusion device that controls delivery of fluids to a user's body. Either the controller device or the infusion device may be integrated with a characteristic determining device in a single housing. The housing, in turn, may include a test-strip receptacle and an illuminator disposed so as to illuminate an area covering the receptacle and a test-strip inserted therein. The illuminator may be configured to be activated automatically when a test strip is inserted into the receptacle, selectively by the user via a button, key, or similar mechanism, and/or when the ambient light level, measured, e.g., with a light sensor, falls below a predetermined intensity. The illuminator may be a LED emitting white light, and may provide illumination at various levels of intensity.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 20, 2011
    Date of Patent: March 4, 2014
    Assignee: Medtronic Minimed, Inc.
    Inventors: Michael A. Hill, Ulrich Rankers, Sheldon B. Moberg, Daniel Chan Chiu
  • Patent number: 8666497
    Abstract: In an implantable medical device having individual modules, a coupling module couples the modules to one another. The coupling module supports electrical and/or mechanical coupling of the modules. The coupling module may assume a variety of shapes or configurations. The various embodiments of the coupling module may offer the modules varying degrees of freedom of movement relative to one another.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 9, 2010
    Date of Patent: March 4, 2014
    Assignee: Medtronic, Inc.
    Inventors: Darren A. Janzig, Carl D. Wahlstrand, Robert M. Skime, Mark S. Lent, Keith A. Miesel, James E. Cabak
  • Patent number: 8666511
    Abstract: This disclosure describes an implantable medical lead, and method of making such a lead, that reduces the undesirable effects the fields generated by an MRI device may have on the implantable medical lead and the implantable medical device. The implantable medical lead has a proximal end configured to connect to an implantable medical device and a distal end. The lead also includes at least one electrode located near the distal end and at least one coiled conductor that extends along a length of the lead from the proximal end to a respective electrode. The lead further includes an outer jacket that is configured to only partially extend between turns of one or more of the coiled conductors.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 30, 2012
    Date of Patent: March 4, 2014
    Assignee: Medtronic, Inc.
    Inventor: Terrell M. Williams
  • Patent number: 8663245
    Abstract: The invention provides a system for occluding a left atrial appendage of a patient. The system can include a ring occluder that can be positioned around the left atrial appendage and a ring applicator to position the ring occluder with respect to the left atrial appendage. The system can also provide a tissue-grasping tool that is separable from the ring applicator tool.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 19, 2007
    Date of Patent: March 4, 2014
    Assignee: Medtronic, Inc.
    Inventors: David E. Francischelli, Roderick E. Briscoe, Leonard H. Leuer, Daniel C. Haeg, Tom P. Daigle, David Kim, Mark T. Stewart, Andrew L. Olson, Patrick J. Cloutier, Christopher W. Smith, Michael J. Hobday, Tessy Kanayinkal, Douglas H. Gubbin, Paul T. Rothstein, Joseph E. Cardinal, Jessica L. Foley, Christopher J. Plott
  • Patent number: 8663225
    Abstract: A bone void filler material, including a hydrogel component provided by microparticulates of pre-set hydrogel material dispersed within a carrier component to maintain the microparticulates substantially proximate to one another so that the resulting fill material is rendered as a substantially flowable mass.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 12, 2004
    Date of Patent: March 4, 2014
    Assignee: Medtronic, Inc.
    Inventor: Jill M. Embry
  • Patent number: 8663302
    Abstract: A stent or stent-graft delivery system includes a stent ejection component. The stent ejection component includes a body and an ejection collar. The ejection collar extends from the body in the proximal direction. The ejection collar assists in automatically ejecting a proximal end of a stent when the tapered tip is moved in the distal direction to deploy the stent. A stent or stent-graft delivery system may also include a retain-sleeve landing component. The retaining-sleeve landing component includes a body and a landing collar. The landing collar extends from the body in a distal direction. The landing collar automatically captures a tapered tip of the delivery system when the tapered tip is moved in a distal direction to deploy a stent contained in the delivery system. Upon capture of the tapered tip, the stent ejection component with the tapered tip attached has an atraumatic profile.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 13, 2010
    Date of Patent: March 4, 2014
    Assignee: Medtronic Vascular, Inc.
    Inventors: Joshua J. Schmitt, Jeffery Argentine
  • Patent number: 8666505
    Abstract: A medical device includes a first substrate, a second substrate, a control module, and an energy storage device. The first substrate includes at least one of a first semiconductor material and a first insulating material. The second substrate includes at least one of a second semiconductor material and a second insulating material. The second substrate is bonded to the first substrate such that the first and second substrates define an enclosed cavity between the first and second substrates. The control module is disposed within the enclosed cavity. The control module is configured to at least one of determine a physiological parameter of a patient and deliver electrical stimulation to the patient. The energy storage device is disposed within the cavity and is configured to supply power to the control module.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 28, 2011
    Date of Patent: March 4, 2014
    Assignee: Medtronic, Inc.
    Inventors: Richard J. O'Brien, John K. Day, Paul F. Gerrish, Michael F. Mattes, David A. Ruben, Malcolm K. Grief
  • Patent number: 8663120
    Abstract: An area of a patient can be mapped with a system operable to identify a plurality of locations and save a plurality of locations of a mapping instrument. The mapping instrument can include one or more electrodes that can sense a voltage that can be correlated to a three dimensional location of the electrode at the time of the sensing or measurement. Therefore, a map of an area or volume can be determined based upon the sensing of the plurality of points without the use of an imaging device. An implantable medical device can then be navigated relative to the mapping data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 17, 2009
    Date of Patent: March 4, 2014
    Assignees: Regents of the University of Minnesota, Medtronic, Inc.
    Inventors: H. Toby Markowitz, Lane A. Phillips
  • Patent number: 8664756
    Abstract: A reconstituted wafer level package for a versatile high-voltage capable component is disclosed. The reconstituted wafer package includes a dice substantially encapsulated by a mold material except for a first face. A dielectric layer is disposed on the first face of the dice. The package further includes an array of ball bumps formed on an exterior facing portion of the dielectric layer. Further, a field plate is disposed within the dielectric material and interposed between the first face of the dice and the ball bump array. The field plate may be spaced from the dice by a predetermined distance to prevent dielectric breakdown of the material of the dielectric layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 24, 2012
    Date of Patent: March 4, 2014
    Assignee: Medtronic, Inc.
    Inventors: Mark R. Boone, Mohsen Askarinya, Larry E. Tyler
  • Patent number: 8666466
    Abstract: A method and medical device for detecting signals that detects emitted light scattered by a volume of tissue delivered along a first pathway and a second pathway different from the first pathway, detects emitted light scattered by a volume of tissue delivered along a third pathway and a fourth pathway different from the third pathway, determines a first uniformity corresponding to the emitted light detected along the first pathway and the second pathway, determines a second uniformity corresponding to the emitted light detected along third pathway and the fourth pathway, determines a total uniformity in response to the determined first uniformity and the determined second uniformity, and alters sensing by the device in response to the determined total uniformity.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 10, 2010
    Date of Patent: March 4, 2014
    Assignee: Medtronic, Inc.
    Inventors: Jonathan L. Kuhn, Can Cinbis, James K. Carney
  • Patent number: 8666506
    Abstract: Techniques for selecting electrode combinations for stimulation therapy are described. The techniques include selecting one or more electrode combinations based on information associating a plurality of electrode combinations with at least one value of a therapy metric. The therapy metric comprises a quantifiable result of delivery of stimulation, and may be generated computer modeling of delivery of stimulation via the electrode combinations. In one embodiment, a clinician may deliver stimulation via a baseline electrode combination, receive patient feedback to the baseline electrode combination, select a therapy metric based on the patient feedback, and select additional electrode combinations based on the selected therapy metric and the information associating the electrode combinations with therapy metric values.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 7, 2007
    Date of Patent: March 4, 2014
    Assignee: Medtronic, Inc.
    Inventors: Gary W. King, Steven M. Goetz, Kevin K. Tidemand, Wilbert A. Wesselink, Gabriela C. Miyazawa, Jordan J. Greenberg
  • Patent number: 8663307
    Abstract: An endoluminal prosthesis is provided that includes a tubular graft and an expandable annular support structure for use in a body lumen through which body fluids flow. The annular support structure is coupled to the tubular graft where it is to be sealingly engaged with the inner wall of a body lumen so that the graft and support structure, in combination, provide an improved seal. An embodiment according to the invention provides an annular structure with longitudinally staggered apices providing multiple levels of contact with the inner body lumen wall to provide a seal at multiple levels along the length of the prosthesis. One embodiment relates to tubular grafts for endoluminal placement within blood vessels for the treatment of abdominal and other aneurysms.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 2, 2005
    Date of Patent: March 4, 2014
    Assignee: Medtronic Vascular, Inc.
    Inventor: Samuel Arbefeuille