Appeal No. 96-2179 Page 13
Application 07/613,466
addition of numbers from the drawings corresponding to the6
claimed structures:7
SN 07/613,466 USP 4,878,497
25. A rate-responsive 13. A rate-responsive
pacemaker 10 comprising pacemaker 10 comprising
means 50 for generating
pacing pulses at a pacing
rate,
means 18 for sensing the
presence of [sic, or] absence7
of an evoked potential;
means 54 for ascertaining means 54 for periodically
the value of a rate control ascertaining the value of a
parameter "RCP", measured rate control
parameter which is based upon
the sensing of an evoked
potential;
closed-loop control means 50 for generating
means 50 for adjusting said pacing pulses at a rate which
pacing rate in accordance is a function of said MRCP;
with the value of said RCP, and
and
means 50 for causing said
closed-loop control means to
self-adapt to changes in the
value of said RCP which are
due to factors other than
stress, exercise and heart
rate.
6 Counsel confirmed the numbering during the hearing.
7 This typographical error occurs in both of the
independent claims of Callaghan '497.
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