Patent ID: 7076307
Filing Date: 2006-07-11
Classification: A61N

Abstract:
1. A method of providing electrical pulses to a vagus nerve(s) of a patient for treating or alleviating the symptoms of at least one of neurological, neuropsychiatric, and obesity disorders, comprising the steps of: providing a microprocessor based implanted pulse generator, wherein said pulse generator comprises microprocessor, circuitry, memory, and power source; providing at least two predetermined/pre-packaged programs of neuromodulation therapy stored in memory of said implantable pulse generator, wherein said predetermined/pre-packaged programs define neuromodulation parameters of pulse amplitude, pulse-width, pulse frequency, on-time and off-time; providing an implanted lead in electrical contact with said implanted pulse generator; wherein said implanted lead comprising at least one electrode adapted to be in contact with said vagus nerve(s); providing programmer means for activating and/or programming said implanted pulse generator, wherein bi-directional inductive telemetry is used to exchange data with said implanted pulse generator; and selectively choosing between at least two predetermined/pre-packaged program and activating said selected program.