Patents by Inventor Paul G. Krause
Paul G. Krause 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: 20240123238Abstract: A system comprising processing circuitry configured to receive a wirelessly-transmitted message from a medical device, the message indicating that the medical device detected an acute health event of the patient. In response to the message, the processing circuitry is configured to determine a location of the patient, determine an alert area based on the location of the patient, and control transmission of an alert of the acute heath event of the patient to any one or more computing devices of one or more potential responders within the alert area.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 16, 2022Publication date: April 18, 2024Inventors: Robert W. Stadler, Becky L. Dolan, Yong K. Cho, Paul G. Krause, Shantanu Sarkar, Robert C. Kowal
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Publication number: 20230263406Abstract: An example device of a patient includes an antenna configured to wirelessly receive communication from a medical device; and processing circuitry coupled to the antenna and configured to: determine that the received communication indicates that a patient is experiencing an acute health event; in response to the determination, determine one or more physical states of the patient based on sensed data from one or more sensors; confirm that the patient is not experiencing the acute health event based on the determined one or more physical states; and output information based on the confirmation that the patient is not experiencing the acute health event.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 19, 2023Publication date: August 24, 2023Inventors: Robert W. Stadler, Ryan D. Wyszynski, Paul J. DeGroot, Shantanu Sarkar, Paul G. Krause, Kevin T. Ousdigian, Grant A. Neitzell, Christopher D. Koch
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Patent number: 11633112Abstract: An example device of a patient includes an antenna configured to wirelessly receive communication from a medical device; and processing circuitry coupled to the antenna and configured to: determine that the received communication indicates that a patient is experiencing an acute health event; in response to the determination, determine one or more physical states of the patient based on sensed data from one or more sensors; confirm that the patient is not experiencing the acute health event based on the determined one or more physical states; and output information based on the confirmation that the patient is not experiencing the acute health event.Type: GrantFiled: April 30, 2021Date of Patent: April 25, 2023Assignee: Medtronic, Inc.Inventors: Robert W. Stadler, Ryan D. Wyszynski, Paul J. DeGroot, Shantanu Sarkar, Paul G. Krause, Kevin T. Ousdigian, Grant A. Neitzell, Christopher D. Koch
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Publication number: 20220395237Abstract: A system coupled to a non-human subject comprising communication circuitry configured to communicatively couple to a medical device coupled to the subject and a remote computing system, the medical device configured to monitor physiological data of the non-human subject and the remote computing system configured to store historical data for the non-human subject; processing circuitry; and a memory comprising instructions that, when executed by the processing circuitry, cause the processing circuitry to: receive the monitored physiological data from the medical device; determine whether the medical device indicates that the monitored physiological data is in satisfaction of at least one condition triggering an upload of at least a portion of the monitored physiological data; and in response to the determination, generate, for communication to the remote computing system, output data comprising the at least a portion of the monitored physiological data.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 10, 2022Publication date: December 15, 2022Inventors: Paul A. Iaizzo, Timothy G. Laske, Paul G. Krause, Kevin T O'Brien, Alex E. Kelner
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Publication number: 20220369937Abstract: A system comprises processing circuitry and memory comprising program instructions that, when executed by the processing circuitry, cause the processing circuitry to: apply a first set of rules to first patient parameter data for a first determination of whether sudden cardiac arrest of a patient is detected; determine that a one or more context criteria of the first determination are satisfied; and in response to satisfaction of the context criteria, apply a second set of rules to second patient parameter data for a second determination of whether sudden cardiac arrest of the patient is detected. At least the second set of rules comprises a machine learning model, and the second patient parameter data comprises at least one patient parameter that is not included in the first patient parameter data.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 30, 2021Publication date: November 24, 2022Inventors: Yong K. Cho, Ryan D. Wyszynski, Grant A. Neitzell, Paul G. Krause, Kevin T. Ousdigian, Paul J. DeGroot, Shantanu Sarkar, Christopher D. Koch
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Publication number: 20220346725Abstract: A system comprising processing circuitry configured to receive a wirelessly-transmitted message from a medical device, the message indicating that the medical device detected an acute health event of the patient. In response to the message, the processing circuitry is configured to determine a location of the patient, determine an alert area based on the location of the patient, and control transmission of an alert of the acute heath event of the patient to any one or more computing devices of one or more potential responders within the alert area.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 30, 2021Publication date: November 3, 2022Inventors: Paul G. Krause, Christopher D. Koch, Ryan D. Wyszynski, Robert W. Stadler, Kevin T. Ousdigian, Grant A. Neitzell
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Publication number: 20220280047Abstract: An example device of a patient includes an antenna configured to wirelessly receive communication from a medical device; and processing circuitry coupled to the antenna and configured to: determine that the received communication indicates that a patient is experiencing an acute health event; in response to the determination, determine one or more physical states of the patient based on sensed data from one or more sensors; confirm that the patient is not experiencing the acute health event based on the determined one or more physical states; and output information based on the confirmation that the patient is not experiencing the acute health event.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 30, 2021Publication date: September 8, 2022Inventors: Robert W. Stadler, Ryan D. Wyszynski, Paul J. DeGroot, Shantanu Sarkar, Paul G. Krause, Kevin T. Ousdigian, Grant A. Neitzell, Christopher D. Koch
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Publication number: 20220061678Abstract: A system comprises a sensor device and processing circuitry. The sensor device comprises a housing configured to be disposed above shoulders of a patient, a plurality of electrodes on the housing, a motion sensor, and sensing circuitry configured to sense a brain electrical signal and a cardiac electrical signal via the electrodes, and a motion signal via the motion sensor. The processing circuitry is configured to determine values over time of one or more parameters from the brain electrical signal, determine values over time of one or more parameters from the cardiac electrical signal, and generate at least one of a detection, prediction, or a classification a condition of the patient based on the values and the motion signal.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 27, 2021Publication date: March 3, 2022Inventors: Randal C. Schulhauser, Jonathon E. Giftakis, Eric J. Panken, John Wainwright, Nathalie Virag, Paul G. Krause, Yong K. Cho, Scott DeFoe, Avram Scheiner, Ekaterina M. Ippolito, David A. Anderson, Saul E. Greenhut, Mark R. Boone, Richard J. O'Brien
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Publication number: 20220061742Abstract: In some examples, a device includes at least three electrodes a first pair of electrodes and a second pair of electrodes. The device also includes circuitry configured to generate a first cardiac signal based on a first differential signal received across the first pair, generate a first brain signal based on the first differential signal received across the first pair, generate a second cardiac signal based on a second differential signal received across the second pair, and generate a second brain signal based on the second differential signal received across the second pair. The circuitry is also configured to output a composite cardiac signal based on the first cardiac signal and the second cardiac signal and to output a composite brain signal based on the first brain signal and the second brain signal.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 28, 2021Publication date: March 3, 2022Inventors: Eric J. Panken, Philip E. Tracton, Eric M. Christensen, Richard J. O'Brien, David A. Anderson, Avram Scheiner, Paul G. Krause, Jonathon E. Giftakis, John Wainwright, Andrew J. Ries, Randal C. Schulhauser, Ekaterina M. Ippolito
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Publication number: 20210251578Abstract: A system for detecting strokes includes a sensor device configured to obtain physiological data from a patient, for example brain activity data. The sensor device can include electrodes configured to be disposed at the back of the patient's neck or base of the skull. The electrodes can detect electrical signals corresponding to brain activity in the P3, Pz, and/or P4 brain regions or other brain regions. A computing device communicatively coupled to the sensor device is configured to receive the physiological data and analyze it to indicate whether the patient has suffered a stroke.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 28, 2020Publication date: August 19, 2021Inventors: Randal C. Schulhauser, John Wainwright, Eric J. Panken, Jadin C. Jackson, Alejo Chavez Gaxiola, Aaron Gilletti, Eduardo N. Warman, Paul G. Krause, Eric M. Christensen, Patrick W. Kinzie, Julia Slopsema
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Publication number: 20210251497Abstract: A system for detecting strokes includes a sensor device configured to obtain physiological data from a patient, for example brain activity data. The sensor device can include electrodes configured to be disposed at the back of the patient's neck or base of the skull. The electrodes can detect electrical signals corresponding to brain activity in the P3, Pz, and/or P4 brain regions or other brain regions. A computing device communicatively coupled to the sensor device is configured to receive the physiological data and analyze it to indicate whether the patient has suffered a stroke.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 16, 2021Publication date: August 19, 2021Inventors: Randal C. Schulhauser, John Wainwright, Eric J. Panken, Jadin C. Jackson, Alejo Chavez Gaxiola, Aaron Gilletti, Eduardo N. Warman, Paul G. Krause, Eric M. Christensen, Patrick W. Kinzie, Julia Slopsema, Avram Scheiner, Brian D. Pederson, David J. Miller
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Patent number: 9814886Abstract: In some examples, an electromechanical disassociation state (EMD) of a heart of a patient can be treated by delivering electrical stimulation to a tissue site to at least one of modulate afferent nerve activity or inhibit efferent nerve activity upon determining that the heart is in an electromechanical dissociation state, where the tissue site comprises at least one of a nonmyocardial tissue site or a nonvascular cardiac tissue site. The delivery of electrical stimulation may effectively treat the EMD state of the heart, e.g., by enabling effective mechanical contraction of the heart. In another example, an electromechanical disassociation state of a heart of a patient can be treated by determining autonomic nervous system activity associated with a detected EMD state of the heart of a patient, and delivering electrical stimulation therapy to the patient based on the determined autonomic nervous system activity of the patient associated with the EMD state.Type: GrantFiled: January 29, 2010Date of Patent: November 14, 2017Assignee: Medtronic, Inc.Inventors: Xiaohong Zhou, Paul G. Krause, William T. Donofrio
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Patent number: 9775987Abstract: Electrical crosstalk between two implantable medical devices or two different therapy modules of a common implantable medical device may be evaluated, and, in some examples, mitigated. In some examples, one of the implantable medical devices or therapy modules delivers electrical stimulation to a nonmyocardial tissue site or a nonvascular cardiac tissue site, and the other implantable medical device or therapy module delivers cardiac rhythm management therapy to a heart of the patient.Type: GrantFiled: January 30, 2009Date of Patent: October 3, 2017Assignee: Medtronic, Inc.Inventors: William T. Donofrio, John E. Burnes, Paul G. Krause, Gerald P. Arne, David J. Peichel, Xiaohong Zhou, James D. Reinke, Timothy Davis
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Patent number: 9744364Abstract: A system including a programmable implantable monitoring device and a programmer for programming the device and a method of use thereof. The programmer may be configured to transmit programming commands responsive to entry of a reason for monitoring to the implantable device including a prioritization of an arrhythmia storage criterion. The implantable may be configured to thereafter store and/or transmit records of the arrhythmia according to the prioritization. The programmer may be configured to transmit the patient's age to the implantable device and the implantable may be configured to thereafter apply arrhythmia detection criteria based upon the patient's age.Type: GrantFiled: April 9, 2014Date of Patent: August 29, 2017Assignee: Medtronic, Inc.Inventors: Charles R Gordon, Paul G Krause, Grant Alan Neitzell, Shantanu Sarkar, Ryan Wyszynski
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Patent number: 9597505Abstract: Electrical crosstalk between two implantable medical devices or two different therapy modules of a common implantable medical device may be evaluated, and, in some examples, mitigated. In some examples, one of the implantable medical devices or therapy modules delivers electrical stimulation to a nonmyocardial tissue site or a nonvascular cardiac tissue site, and the other implantable medical device or therapy module delivers cardiac rhythm management therapy to a heart of the patient.Type: GrantFiled: January 30, 2009Date of Patent: March 21, 2017Assignee: Medtronic, Inc.Inventors: William T. Donofrio, John E. Burnes, Paul G. Krause, Xiaohong Zhou, Gerald P. Arne, David J. Peichel, James D. Reinke
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Patent number: 9289613Abstract: An electrical parameter value indicative of an impedance of an electrical path between a first medical device implanted within a patient and a second medical device implanted within the patient may be determined by generating and delivering an electrical signal between electrodes connected to the first medical device and sensing the electrical signal with two or more sense electrodes connected to the second medical device. In some examples, the electrical parameter value indicative of the impedance may be used to detect a system integrity issue, such as relative movement between the first and second medical devices, such as between leads connected to the medical devices, or a lead-related condition. In other examples, the determined impedance may indicate a transthoracic impedance of the patient.Type: GrantFiled: January 30, 2009Date of Patent: March 22, 2016Assignee: Medtronic, Inc.Inventors: John E. Burnes, Paul G. Krause
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Patent number: 9192769Abstract: Techniques for minimizing interference between the first and second medical devices or between the different therapy modules of a common medical device are described herein. In some examples, a medical device may include shunt-current mitigation circuitry and/or at least one clamping structure that helps minimize or even eliminate shunt-current that feeds into a first therapy module of the medical device via one or more electrodes electrically connected to the first therapy module. The shunt-current may be generated by the delivery of electrical stimulation by a second therapy module. The second therapy module may be enclosed in a common housing with the first therapy module or may be separate, e.g., a part of a separate medical device.Type: GrantFiled: August 31, 2009Date of Patent: November 24, 2015Assignee: Medtronic, Inc.Inventors: William T. Donofrio, John E. Burnes, Paul G. Krause, Gerald P. Arne, Xiaohong Zhou
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Patent number: 9026206Abstract: An implantable medical system that includes a cardiac therapy module and a neurostimulation therapy module may identify when neurostimulation electrodes have migrated toward a patient's heart. In some examples, the system may determine whether the neurostimulation electrodes have migrated toward the patient's heart based on a physiological response to an electrical signal delivered to the patient via the neurostimulation electrodes. In addition, in some examples, the system may determine whether the neurostimulation electrodes have migrated toward the patient's heart based on an electrical cardiac signal sensed via the neurostimulation electrodes.Type: GrantFiled: October 30, 2009Date of Patent: May 5, 2015Assignee: Medtronic, Inc.Inventors: Paul G. Krause, Avram Scheiner
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Publication number: 20150088216Abstract: A system including a programmable implantable monitoring device and a programmer for programming the device and a method of use thereof. The programmer may be configured to transmit programming commands responsive to entry of a reason for monitoring to the implantable device including a prioritization of an arrhythmia storage criterion. The implantable may be configured to thereafter store and/or transmit records of the arrhythmia according to the prioritization. The programmer may be configured to transmit the patient's age to the implantable device and the implantable may be configured to thereafter apply arrhythmia detection criteria based upon the patient's age.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 9, 2014Publication date: March 26, 2015Inventors: Charles R Gordon, Paul G Krause, Grant Alan Neitzell, Shantanu Sarkar, Ryan Wyszynski
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Patent number: 8774918Abstract: Electrical crosstalk between two implantable medical devices or two different therapy modules of a common implantable medical device may be evaluated, and, in some examples, mitigated. In some examples, one of the implantable medical devices or therapy modules delivers electrical stimulation to a nonmyocardial tissue site or a nonvascular cardiac tissue site, and the other implantable medical device or therapy module delivers cardiac rhythm management therapy to a heart of the patient.Type: GrantFiled: January 30, 2009Date of Patent: July 8, 2014Assignee: Medtronic, Inc.Inventors: William T. Donofrio, John E. Burnes, Paul G. Krause, Xiaohong Zhou, Gerald P. Arne, David J. Peichel, James D. Reinke