Patent ID: 11925811
Assignee: PACESETTER, INC.
Field: Medical technology (Instruments)
Classification: CPC A  H | IPC A  H

Claim 10:
11. An implantable leadless pacemaker (LP), comprising:
a pulse generator configured to selectively produce conductive communication pulses;
two or more electrodes coupled to the pulse generator and used to output the conductive communication pulses produced by the pulse generator; and
a controller configured to
monitor for a presence of one or more notification conditions associated with the LP and/or associated with a patient within which the LP is implanted;
periodically cause an advertisement sequence of the conductive communication pulses to be produced by the pulse generator, so that the advertisement sequence is output using at least two of the two or more electrodes, irrespective of whether the controller has detected the presence of at least one said notification condition;
monitor for a programmer acknowledgement sequence of pulses within a programmer acknowledgement monitor window following each outputting by the LP of the advertisement sequence of pulses, to thereby enable the controller to determine whether an external programmer is attempting to establish a communication session with the LP;
monitor for an external device acknowledgement sequence of pulses within an external device acknowledgement monitor window; and
cause a notification sequence of the conductive communication pulses to be produced by the pulse generator within one or more notification transmission windows following the advertisement sequence of pulses being output, so that the notification sequence is output using at least two of the two or more electrodes of the LP, in response to the controller recognizing the presence of at least one said notification condition and detecting the external device acknowledgement sequence of pulses within the external device acknowledgement monitor window;
wherein the notification sequence of pulses is encoded with diagnostic information associated with the LP and/or associated with the patient within which the LP is implanted.