US 11,701,504 B2
Implantable intracranial pressure sensor
Yu-Chong Tai, Pasadena, CA (US); Aubrey M. Shapero, Santa Clara, CA (US); Shane S. Shahrestani, Yorba Linda, CA (US); Azita Emami, Pasadena, CA (US); Abhinav Agarwal, Pasadena, CA (US); Kuang-Ming Shang, Pasadena, CA (US); Sunghoon Kim, San Ramon, CA (US); Olajire Idowu, Lafayette, CA (US); and Kurtis I. Auguste, Oakland, CA (US)
Assigned to California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA (US); and The Regents of the University of California, Oakland, CA (US)
Filed by California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA (US); and The Regents of the University of California, Oakland, CA (US)
Filed on Jan. 15, 2021, as Appl. No. 17/150,986.
Claims priority of provisional application 62/962,418, filed on Jan. 17, 2020.
Prior Publication US 2021/0220627 A1, Jul. 22, 2021
Int. Cl. A61M 27/00 (2006.01)
CPC A61M 27/006 (2013.01) [A61M 2205/3344 (2013.01); A61M 2205/3368 (2013.01); A61M 2205/3523 (2013.01); A61M 2205/50 (2013.01); A61M 2207/00 (2013.01)] 20 Claims
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1. A hydrocephalus shunt pressure sensing apparatus comprising:
a ventricular catheter;
a distal catheter;
a reservoir connecting the ventricular catheter and the distal catheter to form a hydrocephalus shunt;
a pigtail catheter connected to the ventricular catheter; and
a wireless sensor device sensing on the ventricular pigtail catheter, the wireless sensor device comprising:
an electronic pressure sensor;
a microprocessor connected with the electronic pressure sensor;
a wireless data transmitter connected with the microprocessor; and
an antenna connected with the wireless data transmitter.