Patent ID: 8265556
Filing Date: 2012-09-11
Classification: A61B,G16H

Abstract:
1. An integrated mobile device and medical implant system comprising a first architecture further comprising; a mobile electronic device integrated with an implantable device in the body of a user/patient through an electronic umbilical cord having an implant-end implanted with said implementable device, and a phone-end attachable to said mobile electronic device; said implantable device comprising an implant coil and an implant IC hermetically sealed within a substrate; said electronic umbilical cord providing inductive communications link between said implantable device and said mobile electronic device through a patch coil affixed to said implant-end patch; said implant-end patch further comprising an outer portion configured to receive a Link-ICC acting as an interface between said electronic device and said implantable device through said electronic umbilical cord; said umbilical cord further comprising a two-way near field inductive data/power transfer two-wire cable capable of carrying modulated RF data; a Link-ICC formed in said mobile phone between a communication port and system-on-chip chip (SOCC), or inside said SOCC, or inside application processor (AP), and capable of acting as an interface between said mobile electronic device and said implantable device through said electronic umbilical cord; wherein said Link-ICC is programmable to work in an RF-ID band to generate a carrier signal for fully differential operation for interference-free communication with said implantable device through said electronic umbilical cord, and further configured to have a power amplifier that drives said primary patch coil at said phone-end of said electronic umbilical cord, and a receive chain including a programmable attenuator, a limiting amplifier to recreate a carrier signal for mixing, filters and variable gain amplifiers (VGAs) for signal conditioning, and ADC for conversion to digital signal, a digital signal processor and control logic to extract data from said implantable device, a mobile electronic device interface to present said data to mobile electronic device application processor; a mobile electronic device display to present the processed data to the immediate user/patient and/or an antenna to communicate the data wirelessly to a remote location; and wherein, said electronic mobile device is capable of functioning both as a normal mobile phone, as a medical monitoring device, or both simultaneously, without any interference between the two modes of operations, with the switch of software application from a drop-down menu inside said mobile phone.