US 12,239,811 B2
Wireless charging, localization, and data communication for implantable vascular access devices
James D. Mitchell, Walnut Creek, CA (US); Andrew A. Thoreson, Orono, MN (US); Theodore C. Johnson, Lake Forest Park, WA (US); and Jayme Ormiston Coates, New Hartford, CT (US)
Assigned to Veris Health Inc., New York, NY (US)
Appl. No. 17/309,338
Filed by Veris Health Inc., New York, NY (US)
PCT Filed Nov. 20, 2019, PCT No. PCT/US2019/062350
§ 371(c)(1), (2) Date May 19, 2021,
PCT Pub. No. WO2020/106804, PCT Pub. Date May 28, 2020.
Claims priority of provisional application 62/769,698, filed on Nov. 20, 2018.
Prior Publication US 2021/0402164 A1, Dec. 30, 2021
Int. Cl. A61M 39/02 (2006.01); A61B 5/00 (2006.01); G06F 21/62 (2013.01); G16H 10/60 (2018.01); G16H 20/17 (2018.01)
CPC A61M 39/0208 (2013.01) [A61B 5/0031 (2013.01); A61B 5/6865 (2013.01); A61M 39/0247 (2013.01); G06F 21/6254 (2013.01); G16H 10/60 (2018.01); G16H 20/17 (2018.01); A61M 2039/0238 (2013.01); A61M 2039/0258 (2013.01); A61M 2205/3324 (2013.01); A61M 2205/3331 (2013.01); A61M 2205/3507 (2013.01); A61M 2205/3569 (2013.01); A61M 2230/04 (2013.01); A61M 2230/208 (2013.01); A61M 2230/50 (2013.01)] 17 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. An implantable vascular access device comprising:
a fluid reservoir;
a self-sealing cover disposed over the reservoir;
an outlet port configured to mate with a catheter, the outlet port fluidically coupled to the fluid reservoir;
one or more sensors configured to capture physiological data while the device is implanted within a patient; and
a data communications processor configured to:
receive physiological data from the one or more sensors;
obfuscate the physiological data including:
encrypting the physiological data through at least one of symmetric and asymmetric-key encryption;
parsing the encrypted physiological data into component packets; and
arranging the component packets into a data stream interspersed with filler packets containing non-physiological data; and
transmit the data stream to one or more remote computing devices.