IP Library Granted Patent US 12,414,709
Granted Patent B2
US 12,414,709 · App. 17/668,498 · Granted Sep 16, 2025

Monitoring system and user interface for monitoring implantable disordered breathing treatment systems

Inventors: Antonios Panteleon (Nea Penteli, GR); Kristofer J. James (Eagan, MN); Todd P. Goblish (Maple Grove, MN)
Assignee: ZOLL RESPICARDIA, INC.
A61B5/0826A61B5/0022A61B5/7435A61N1/3611A61N1/37247G16H10/60G16H20/40
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Patent No.
US 12,414,709
App. No.
17/668,498
Granted
Sep 16, 2025
Kind
B2
Abstract

Examples of the disclosure include a method to aid user monitoring of a disordered breathing treatment, comprising providing, by an application running on a user computing device, a patient-selection screen of a graphical user interface (GUI) on a display device of the user computing device; receiving, via an input field of the patient-selection screen, an input from the user indicative of a selected patient; communicating between the user computing device and a treatment system implanted in the selected patient, responsive to receipt of the input indicative of the selected patient, to transfer patient data from the treatment system to the user computing device; and providing, by the application, a diagnostic reporting and monitoring screen including one or more graphical illustrations indicative of sleep position data for the selected patient in combination with one or more graphical illustrations of other data for the selected patient on the GUI.

Claims (45)

1. A method to aid a user monitoring of a disordered-breathing treatment, the method comprising:

displaying, by at least one processor on a user-computing-device screen of a user computing device, a patient-selection screen including a plurality of patient-selection fields, each patient-selection field corresponding to a respective patient of a plurality of selectable patients;

receiving, via the patient-selection screen, an input from a user indicative of a selection of the respective patient selected by the user and corresponding to the patient-selection field of the plurality of patient-selection fields;

communicating between the user computing device and a treatment system implanted in the selected respective patient, responsive to receipt of the input indicative of the selection of the respective patient, to receive and process patient data from the treatment system to the user computing device;

displaying, by the user computing device, a plurality of treatment-information fields, wherein each treatment-information field of the plurality of treatment-information fields corresponds to treatment information of the selected respective patient and is selectable via a respective treatment-information-field portion of the patient-selection screen; and

displaying, by the user computing device responsive to detecting a user-input signal associated with a diagnostic-reporting-and-monitoring-information field of the plurality of treatment-information fields, a diagnostic-reporting-and-monitoring screen including

sleep-position data indicative of a sleeping position of the selected respective patient, the sleep-position data being visually rendered along a time scale that includes at least a therapy time, and

patient-breathing data indicative of breathing patterns of the selected respective patient, the patient-breathing data being visually rendered along the time scale that includes the therapy time and being visually rendered relative to the sleep-position data such that the time scale of the patient-breathing data is visually aligned with the time scale of the sleep-position data.

2. The method of claim 1 , wherein the patient-breathing data includes respiration-synchronization data for the selected respective patient.

3. The method of claim 2 , wherein visually rendering the patient-breathing data includes displaying the respiration-synchronization data plotted as a function of time.

4. The method of claim 2 , wherein visually rendering the patient-breathing data includes displaying synchronized respiratory activity of the selected respective patient as a percentage.

5. The method of claim 4 , wherein the patient-breathing data includes periodic-breathing data for the selected respective patient.

6. The method of claim 5 , wherein visually rendering the patient-breathing data includes displaying the periodic-breathing data for the selected respective patient as a percentage.

7. The method of claim 5 , further comprising:

displaying, by the user computing device and responsive to detecting a user-input signal associated with at least one of the sleep-position data or the patient-breathing data, a pop-up screen overlaying portions of the diagnostic-reporting-and-monitoring screen, the pop-up screen visually rendering synchronized-respiratory-activity data and periodic-breathing data in relation to sleep position of the selected respective patient.

8. The method of claim 1 , wherein the patient-breathing data includes periodic-breathing data for the selected respective patient.

9. The method of claim 1 , wherein the patient-breathing data includes stimulation-energy data applied to the selected respective patient by the treatment system.

10. The method of claim 9 , wherein the patient-breathing data includes stimulation-current data indicative of a stimulation current applied to the selected respective patient by the treatment system.

11. A monitoring system for monitoring disordered breathing treatment of a patient with a disordered-breathing-treatment system implanted in the patient, the monitoring system comprising:

communication components configured to establish a communication link between the monitoring system and the disordered-breathing-treatment system implanted in the patient;

a display device configured to display a graphical user interface (GUI) for use by a user of the monitoring system; and

at least one processor configured to:

control the display device to display a patient-selection screen including a plurality of patient-selection fields, each patient-selection field corresponding to a respective patient of a plurality of selectable patients;

receive, via the patient-selection screen, an input from the user indicative of a selection of the respective patient selected by the user and corresponding to the patient-selection field of the plurality of patient-selection fields;

communicate between the at least one processor and a treatment system implanted in the selected respective patient, responsive to receipt of the input indicative of the selection of the respective patient, to receive and process patient data from the treatment system to the at least one processor;

control the display device to display a plurality of treatment-information fields, wherein each treatment-information field of the plurality of treatment-information fields corresponds to treatment information of the selected respective patient and is selectable via a respective treatment-information-field portion of the patient-selection screen; and

control the display device to display, responsive to detecting a user-input signal associated with a diagnostic-reporting-and-monitoring-information field of the plurality of treatment-information fields, a diagnostic-reporting-and-monitoring screen including

sleep-position data indicative of a sleeping position of the selected respective patient, the sleep-position data being visually rendered along a time scale that includes at least a therapy time, and

patient-breathing data indicative of breathing patterns of the selected respective patient, the patient-breathing data being visually rendered along the time scale that includes the at least the therapy time and being visually rendered relative to the sleep-position data such that the time scale of the patient-breathing data is visually aligned with the time scale of the sleep-position data.

12. The monitoring system of claim 11 , wherein the patient-breathing data includes respiration-synchronization data for the selected respective patient.

13. The monitoring system of claim 12 , wherein visually rendering the patient-breathing data includes displaying the respiration-synchronization data plotted as a function of time.

14. The monitoring system of claim 11 , wherein the patient-breathing data includes periodic-breathing data for the selected respective patient.

15. The monitoring system of claim 11 , wherein the patient-breathing data includes stimulation-energy data indicative of stimulation energy applied to the selected respective patient by the treatment system.

16. A non-transitory computer-readable medium storing thereon sequences of computer-executable instructions for aiding in user monitoring of a disordered-breathing treatment, the sequences of computer-executable instructions including instructions that instruct at least one processor to:

display, by at least one processor on a user-computing-device screen of a user computing device, a patient-selection screen including a plurality of patient-selection fields, each patient-selection field corresponding to a respective patient of a plurality of selectable patients;

receive, via the patient-selection screen, an input from a user indicative of a selection of the respective patient selected by the user and corresponding to the patient-selection field of the plurality of patient-selection fields;

communicate between the user computing device and a treatment system implanted in the selected respective patient, responsive to receipt of the input indicative of the selection of the respective patient, to receive and process patient data from the treatment system to the user computing device;

display, by the user computing device, a plurality of treatment-information fields, wherein each treatment-information field of the plurality of treatment-information fields corresponds to treatment information of the selected respective patient and is selectable via a respective treatment-information-field portion of the patient-selection screen; and

display, by the user computing device responsive to detecting a user-input signal associated with a diagnostic-reporting-and-monitoring-information field of the plurality of treatment-information fields, a diagnostic-reporting-and-monitoring screen including

sleep-position data indicative of a sleeping position of the selected respective patient, the sleep-position data being visually rendered along a time scale that includes at least a therapy time, and

patient-breathing data indicative of breathing patterns of the selected respective patient, the patient-breathing data being visually rendered along the time scale that includes the at least the therapy time and being visually rendered relative to the sleep-position data such that the time scale of the patient-breathing data is visually aligned with the time scale of the sleep-position data.

17. The non-transitory computer-readable medium of claim 16 , wherein the patient-breathing data includes respiration-synchronization data for the selected respective patient.

18. The non-transitory computer-readable medium of claim 17 , wherein visually rendering the patient-breathing data includes displaying the respiration-synchronization data plotted as a function of time.

19. The non-transitory computer-readable medium of claim 17 , wherein visually rendering the patient-breathing data includes displaying respiratory activity as a percentage.

20. The non-transitory computer-readable medium of claim 19 , wherein the patient-breathing data includes periodic-breathing data for the selected respective patient.

Assignments (2)
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Jul 9, 2025
From: PANTELEON, ANTONIOS
To: ZOLL RESPICARDIA, INC.
Reel/Frame 071644/0893 →
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Feb 10, 2022
From: PANTELEON, ANTONIS; JAMES, KRISTOFER J.; GOBLISH, TODD P.
To: ZOLL RESPICARDIA, INC.
Reel/Frame 058969/0812 →
Continuity (2)
Provisional Application 63148309 · Feb 11, 2021
Related Publication 20220248978A1 · Aug 11, 2022
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