Gastrointestinal electrical therapy

US8934975B2 · kind B2 · utility

Assignee

• MetaCure Limited · BM

Inventors

• Irit Yaniv · Ramat Gan, IL
• Walid Haddad · Haifa, IL
• Paul V. Goode · Round Rock, US
• Harold Lebovitz · Staten Island, US
• Ricardo Aviv · Littlehampton, AU
• Benny Rousso · Bat Yam, IL
• Shlomo Ben-Haim · Haifa, IL

Key dates

• Filing date: Feb 1, 2011
• Grant date: Jan 13, 2015
• Expiry date: Apr 4, 2031

Classification

• Technology area (CPC A): Human Necessities
• CPC primary: A61N1/36053
• WIPO field: Medical technology
• WIPO sector: Instruments

Abstract

Apparatus (18) for treating a human patient, which includes one or more electrode contact surfaces (100), which are configured to be applied to a fundus (22) of the patient. A control unit (90) is configured to drive the one or more electrode contact surfaces (100) to apply an electrical signal to the fundus (22) that chronically improves a blood glucose level of the patient, in order to treat the patient, without calculating an impedance of tissue of the fundus (22) based on a sensed parameter that varies in response to the electrical signal, for detecting eating by the patient or a characteristic of food eaten by the patient. Other embodiments are also described.