US 12,136,478 B2
Automatic configuration of user-specific data based on removal from service
Afshin Bazargan, Simi Valley, CA (US); Patrick E. Weydt, Moorpark, CA (US); Hans K. Wenstad, Santa Clarita, CA (US); Adam S. Trock, Simi Valley, CA (US); Seung C. Shin, Los Angeles, CA (US); and Samuel Finney, Los Angeles, CA (US)
Assigned to MEDTRONIC MINIMED, INC., Northridge (CA)
Filed by Medtronic MiniMed, Inc., Northridge, CA (US)
Filed on Mar. 25, 2021, as Appl. No. 17/212,982.
Claims priority of provisional application 63/044,993, filed on Jun. 26, 2020.
Prior Publication US 2021/0407645 A1, Dec. 30, 2021
Int. Cl. G16H 20/17 (2018.01); G16H 40/60 (2018.01)
CPC G16H 20/17 (2018.01) [G16H 40/60 (2018.01)] 20 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A method for automatically configuring a medical device with user-specific configuration data, the method comprising:
determining, by a first medical device, that the first medical device is being removed from service on a patient based at least in part on detecting removal of a portion of the first medical device from contact with or being coupled to the patient, wherein the first medical device was previously placed into service on the patient to provide therapy to the patient in accordance with user-specific configuration data stored on the first medical device, and wherein the first medical device is to be replaced with a second medical device that is a replacement medical device for the first medical device responsive to the determination that the first medical device is being removed from service on the patient; and
causing, by the first medical device in response to determining that the first medical device is being removed from service on the patient, configuration of the second medical device to provide therapy to the patient in accordance with the user-specific configuration data, wherein causing configuration of the second medical device comprises communicating the user-specific configuration data toward the second medical device.