Diversity antennas for neurostimulator programming devices

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United States of America Patent

PATENT NO 9421386
APP PUB NO 20150202450A1
SERIAL NO

14670539

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The present disclosure involves a method of communicating with an implantable medical device. A programmer is provided. The programmer has a plurality of diversity antennas. The diversity antennas are configured to send wireless signals to the implantable medical device. A subset of the diversity antennas is selected. A communications link is established between the programmer and the implantable medical device through the selected subset of the diversity antennas. A link quality of the communications link is measured. A different subset of the diversity antennas is selected to communicate with the implantable medical device if the link quality falls below a predetermined threshold.

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  • NUVECTRA CORPORATION

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Inventor Name Address # of filed Patents Total Citations
Trier, Stephen C Mayfield Heights, US 22 498
Yoder, Raymond Lloyd Willoughby, US 4 363

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