Radio frequency antenna in a header of an implantable...

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2011-03-08

2011-03-08

Owens, Douglas W (Department: 2821)

Communications: radio wave antennas

Antennas

With housing or protective covering

C607S060000

Reexamination Certificate

active

07903043

ABSTRACT:
An apparatus and method for enabling far-field radio frequency communications with an implantable medical device in which an antenna structure is disposed within a header assembly of the device. The antenna structure, in various embodiments, includes a monopole antenna, a dipole antenna, an inverted F antenna, a patch antenna and a slot antenna.

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