Patent ID: 9242104
Filing Date: 2016-01-26
CPC Classification: A61N

Claim Text:
1. A method performed by an implantable medical device to deliver a therapy to a patient, the method comprising: delivering the therapy to the patient; detecting a therapy interruption trigger that is controlled by the patient; automatically interrupting the therapy in response to the detected therapy interruption trigger; automatically restoring the therapy after a defined restoration period after the detected therapy interruption trigger; counting a number of detected therapy interruption triggers over a defined therapy interruption trigger count period, the counted number of detected therapy interruption triggers over the defined interruption trigger count period being greater than one, and each of the counted number of detected therapy interruption triggers corresponding to an automatic interruption in the therapy; and when the counted number of detected therapy interruption triggers over the defined trigger count period reaches a defined number of detected therapy interruption triggers greater than one trigger, automatically interrupting the therapy in response to the detected therapy interruption trigger includes automatically interrupting the therapy until an authorized individual resets the therapy.