THE ALFRED E. MANN FOUNDATION FOR SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH

An implantable medical device (IMD) charger apparatus may include an IMD charger including a housing defining a bottom surface, a primary coil located within the housing, and a fastener on the bottom surface of the housing, and a charger support, mounted on the IMD charger, including a bottom surface, and movable between a first state and a second state. The IMD charger and the charger support may be respectively configured such that the IMD charger fastener is above the charger support bottom surface when the charger support is in the first state and the IMD charger fastener is at or below the charger support bottom surface when the charger support is in the second state.

An electrode lead includes an elongate lead body and a nerve cuff. The nerve cuff may include a cuff body, with a front layer and a rear layer, affixed to the distal end of the lead body and a plurality of electrically conductive members located between the front and rear layers. Each of the electrically conductive member defines a front side, a rear side and an outer perimeter and may include a plurality of holes that extend from the front side to the rear side and that are located around the outer perimeter. The cuff body front layer includes a plurality of windows that are respectively aligned with and located inwardly of the outer perimeters of the electrically conductive members, and a plurality of window frames that extend from the windows to the outer perimeters of the electrically conductive members. The cuff body also includes a plurality of anchors that respectively extend through the electrically conductive member holes and connect the window frames to the cuff body rear layer.

A wireless charging system and associated methods are provided to assist a user with manually aligning a wireless charger with an implantable device, such as an implantable medical device (“IMD”). Both the charger and the IMD are equipped with at least one inertial sensor (e.g., an accelerometer, a gyroscope, or a magnetometer). Data from these sensors is wirelessly sent to a controller, which processes the information to generate three-dimensional (3-D) digital models (also known as “digital twins”) of the charger and IMD on a graphical user interface, showing their relative position and orientation in real-time. During alignment, a patient initially positions the charger near the IMD. The digital twins are displayed to the patient as visual aids, helping the patient manually adjust the charger into parallel and axial alignment with the IMD quickly and precisely, thereby enhancing user experience and wireless charging efficiency.

A system configured to alleviate pain includes a thermal device including heating elements and cooling elements arranged in a thermal array and each having a front surface configured to face a patient and a rear surface configured to face away from the patient; a liquid cooling system coupled to the thermal device that includes a first conductive material on the rear surface of each of the heating elements and the cooling elements; a second conductive material; at least one conduit between the first conductive material and the second conductive material; at least one electrical cable coupled to the heating elements and the cooling elements; and a control unit connected to the conduit and the electrical cable. The control unit is configured to supply a coolant through the conduit and to deliver power to the heating elements and the cooling elements through the electrical cable.

The present disclosure generally relates to systems and methods for monitoring and/or the sleep stage of an individual using one or more sensors, and methods of treating medical conditions related thereto (e.g., obstructive sleep apnea).

A wireless power transfer device includes a first transmitting coil oriented along a first axis; a second transmitting coil on the first transmitting coil and oriented along a second axis different from the first axis; a nonmagnetic material magnetically decoupling the first transmitting coil from the second transmitting coil in an area of overlap between the first and second transmitting coils; and a driver configured to separately provide first and second currents to the first and second transmitting coils, respectively, to generate a magnetic field.

Patient treatment systems and methods for sensing cardiac depolarization and/or stimulating the carotid sinus nerve are disclosed herein. Exemplary patient treatment systems can include a neuromodulator and an implantable signal delivery device electrically coupleable to the neuromodulator. The signal delivery device comprises a lead body including a first region, a second region positionable over the first region, and lead electrodes. The patient treatment system further comprises computer-readable media having instructions that cause the patient treatment system to perform operations comprising: (i) obtaining a physiological parameter of the patient, (ii) generating neuromodulation pulses based on the obtained physiological parameter, and (iii) delivering the neuromodulation pulses to the CSN afferent fibers via one or more of the lead electrodes. The physiological parameter can include at least one of blood pressure, heart rate, bioimpedance, or activity level of the patient.

The present disclosure generally relates to systems and methods for independently deploying services while preserving a unified local development environment. Such systems may advantageously allow developers to work locally with familiar web frameworks and configure how monolithic API endpoints will be split and deployed into separate servers. For instance, because the code base is shared locally, each service will have access to shared dependencies.

An implantable medical device and a method of deduplicating data collected by the implantable medical device are provided. The method includes storing data, captured by the implantable medical device, in a non-volatile memory device of the implantable medical device, assigning a unique number, generated from a random number generator or counter, to each data block of the data, and deduplicating the data by deleting at least one of two or more data blocks that are associated with the same unique number.

A method of forming a nerve cuff by combining a plurality of electrically conductive members with respective rear surfaces and grit blasted front surfaces with a nerve cuff body, which includes a respective plurality of windows, in such a manner that exposed portions of the grit blasted front surfaces are within the windows.