Patents by Inventor Brian T. Kannard

Brian T. Kannard has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Patent number: 11957464
    Abstract: A continuous glucose monitoring system may utilize externally sourced information regarding the physiological state and ambient environment of its user for externally calibrating sensor glucose measurements. Externally sourced factory calibration information may be utilized, where the information is generated by comparing metrics obtained from the data used to generate the sensor's glucose sensing algorithm to similar data obtained from each batch of sensors to be used with the algorithm in the future. The output sensor glucose value of a glucose sensor may also be estimated by analytically optimizing input sensor signals to accurately correct for changes in sensitivity, run-in time, glucose current dips, and other variable sensor wear effects.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 13, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 16, 2024
    Assignee: MEDTRONIC MINIMED, INC.
    Inventors: Peter Ajemba, Keith Nogueira, Brian T. Kannard
  • Publication number: 20230263657
    Abstract: A temperature-management device comprises a wearable sleeve including a foot portion configured to cover at least a portion of a sole of a foot of a patient, a calf portion configured to cover at least a portion of a calf of the patient, the calf portion having one or more compression bladders associated therewith, and a popliteal fossa portion configured to cover at least a portion of a popliteal fossa of the patient. The temperature-management device further comprises a heater assembly configured to be secured to the wearable sleeve, the heater assembly including a foot heating pad, a popliteal fossa heating pad, and a physical connector extending between the foot heating pad and the popliteal fossa heating pad.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 5, 2023
    Publication date: August 24, 2023
    Inventors: Douglas M. PATTON, Bradley C. LIANG, Abhinav RAMANI, Brian T. KANNARD, Peter Luke SANTA MARIA, Morgan Taylor MCKEOWN
  • Patent number: 11622883
    Abstract: Systems for maintaining normothermia in a patient via compression and warming are disclosed and include a first warming element configured to apply warming to the popliteal fossa, a second warming element configured to apply warming to the sole of the foot, and a compression element configured to apply compression to the calf.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 31, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 11, 2023
    Assignee: Flotherm, Inc.
    Inventors: Bradley C Liang, Abhinav Ramani, Brian T. Kannard, Peter Luke Santa Maria, Scott Janis, Colton Sanford, Isamu Taguchi
  • Publication number: 20230035020
    Abstract: A heating system comprises a wearable sleeve, a first heating pad associated with a first portion of the wearable sleeve, a second heating pad associated with a second portion of the wearable sleeve, one or more temperature sensors associated with the wearable sleeve, and control circuitry communicatively coupled to the first heating pad, the second heating pad, and the one or more temperature sensors. The control circuitry is configured to receive one or more temperature signals from the one or more temperature sensors, determine a temperature associated with a patient based on the one or more temperature signals, determine that the temperature is less than a target temperature value, and at least partly in response to said determining that the temperature is less than the target temperature value, activate at least one of the first heating pad or the second heating pad.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 7, 2022
    Publication date: February 2, 2023
    Inventors: Bradley C. LIANG, Abhinav RAMANI, Brian T. KANNARD, Peter Luke SANTA MARIA
  • Publication number: 20220262475
    Abstract: Disclosed herein are techniques related to adaptive signal processing. The techniques may involve: obtaining a plurality of unfiltered measurement values based on signals generated by a sensor; determining a plurality of filtered measurement values based on the plurality of unfiltered measurement values; determining, based on the plurality of filtered measurements, a first derivative metric for a current filtered measurement of the plurality of filtered measurements and a second derivative metric for the current filtered measurement; determining an output filtered measurement indicative of a physiological condition of a user based at least in part on the current filtered measurement, the first derivative metric, the second derivative metric, and a previous output measurement; and outputting the output filtered measurement.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 2, 2022
    Publication date: August 18, 2022
    Inventors: Keith Nogueira, Pratik J. Agrawal, Brian T. Kannard, Xiaolong Li, Bradley C. Liang, Rajiv Shah, Yuxiang Zhong
  • Publication number: 20220211302
    Abstract: A continuous glucose monitoring system may utilize externally sourced information regarding the physiological state and ambient environment of its user for externally calibrating sensor glucose measurements. Externally sourced factory calibration information may be utilized, where the information is generated by comparing metrics obtained from the data used to generate the sensor's glucose sensing algorithm to similar data obtained from each batch of sensors to be used with the algorithm in the future. The output sensor glucose value of a glucose sensor may also be estimated by analytically optimizing input sensor signals to accurately correct for changes in sensitivity, run-in time, glucose current dips, and other variable sensor wear effects.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 13, 2022
    Publication date: July 7, 2022
    Inventors: Peter Ajemba, Keith Nogueira, Brian T. Kannard
  • Patent number: 11311217
    Abstract: A continuous glucose monitoring system may utilize externally sourced information regarding the physiological state and ambient environment of its user for externally calibrating sensor glucose measurements. Externally sourced factory calibration information may be utilized, where the information is generated by comparing metrics obtained from the data used to generate the sensor's glucose sensing algorithm to similar data obtained from each batch of sensors to be used with the algorithm in the future. The output sensor glucose value of a glucose sensor may also be estimated by analytically optimizing input sensor signals to accurately correct for changes in sensitivity, run-in time, glucose current dips, and other variable sensor wear effects.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 30, 2018
    Date of Patent: April 26, 2022
    Assignee: MEDTRONIC MINIMED, INC.
    Inventors: Peter Ajemba, Keith Nogueira, Brian T. Kannard
  • Publication number: 20200245950
    Abstract: Determining a patient's risk of hypothermia involves receiving a first input from a sleeve administered to a patient, receiving a second input, determine a first risk value based at least in part on the first input, determining a second risk value based at least in part on the second input, determining a first relative risk value of the first risk value based at least in part on comparing the first risk value to the second risk value, determining a second relative risk value of the second risk value based at least in part on comparing the first risk value to the second risk value, and performing a risk calculation to generate a risk score for the patient.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 31, 2020
    Publication date: August 6, 2020
    Inventors: Bradley C. LIANG, Abhinav RAMANI, Brian T. KANNARD, Peter Luke SANTA MARIA
  • Publication number: 20200246180
    Abstract: Systems for maintaining normothermia in a patient via compression and warming are disclosed and include a first warming element configured to apply warming to the popliteal fossa, a second warming element configured to apply warming to the sole of the foot, and a compression element configured to apply compression to the calf.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 31, 2020
    Publication date: August 6, 2020
    Inventors: Bradley C LIANG, Abhinav RAMANI, Brian T. KANNARD, Peter Luke SANTA MARIA, Scott JANIS, Colton SANFORD, Isamu TAGUCHI
  • Patent number: 10391242
    Abstract: A method of managing use of an insulin infusion device is presented here. The method identifies bolus calculator event data from glucose data for a user of the infusion device. The bolus calculator event data corresponds to use of a bolus calculator that calculates bolus dosage recommendations based on a user entered carbohydrate consumption value, a user entered current blood glucose value, a user specific carbohydrate ratio value, and a user specific insulin sensitivity value. The method filters the bolus calculator event data to remove glucose data associated with certain conditions, and analyzes the filtered data to detect an event occurrence that is indicative of potential maladjustment of the carbohydrate ratio value or the insulin sensitivity value. The method outputs a recommendation to adjust the carbohydrate ratio value or the insulin sensitivity value, based on characteristics of the detected event occurrence.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 5, 2013
    Date of Patent: August 27, 2019
    Assignee: MEDTRONIC MINIMED, INC.
    Inventors: Pratik Agrawal, Brian T. Kannard, Francine R. Kaufman
  • Patent number: 10274349
    Abstract: Infusion systems, infusion devices, and related operating methods are provided. An exemplary method of operating an infusion device capable of delivering fluid to a user involves obtaining one or more uncalibrated measurements indicative of the physiological condition, obtaining one or more reference measurements of the physiological condition, determining a raw calibration factor based on a relationship between the one or more uncalibrated measurements and the one or more reference measurements corresponding to the respective uncalibrated measurements of the one or more uncalibrated measurements, and determining an adjusted calibration factor based at least in part on an expected calibration factor and the raw calibration factor, wherein operation of the infusion device to deliver the fluid is influenced by the adjusted calibration factor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 19, 2014
    Date of Patent: April 30, 2019
    Assignee: MEDTRONIC MINIMED, INC.
    Inventors: Keith Nogueira, Pratik Agrawal, Brian T. Kannard, Xiaolong Li, Bradley C. Liang, Rajiv Shah, Yuxiang Zhong
  • Publication number: 20190076067
    Abstract: A continuous glucose monitoring system may utilize externally sourced information regarding the physiological state and ambient environment of its user for externally calibrating sensor glucose measurements. Externally sourced factory calibration information may be utilized, where the information is generated by comparing metrics obtained from the data used to generate the sensor's glucose sensing algorithm to similar data obtained from each batch of sensors to be used with the algorithm in the future. The output sensor glucose value of a glucose sensor may also be estimated by analytically optimizing input sensor signals to accurately correct for changes in sensitivity, run-in time, glucose current dips, and other variable sensor wear effects.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 30, 2018
    Publication date: March 14, 2019
    Inventors: Peter Ajemba, Keith Nogueira, Brian T. Kannard
  • Patent number: 10152049
    Abstract: Infusion systems, infusion devices, and related operating methods are provided. An exemplary method of operating an infusion device capable of delivering fluid to a user involves determining one or more signal characteristics associated with a subset of the measurements corresponding to a monitoring period, determining a reliability metric for the monitoring period based on the one or more signal characteristics, and providing indication of a maintenance condition when the reliability metric violates a threshold.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 19, 2014
    Date of Patent: December 11, 2018
    Assignee: MEDTRONIC MINIMED, INC.
    Inventors: Keith Nogueira, Xiaolong Li, Rajiv Shah, Brian T. Kannard
  • Publication number: 20180261315
    Abstract: Infusion systems, infusion devices, and related operating methods are provided. An exemplary method of operating an infusion device involves obtaining a filtered measurement indicative of a physiological condition of a user, determining a metric indicative of a characteristic of the filtered measurement based at least in part on one or more derivative metrics associated with the filtered measurement, and determining an output measurement indicative of the physiological condition of the user based at least in part on the filtered measurement, the metric, and a previous output measurement.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 14, 2018
    Publication date: September 13, 2018
    Inventors: Keith Nogueira, Pratik Agrawal, Brian T. Kannard, Xiaolong Li, Bradley C. Liang, Rajiv Shah, Yuxiang Zhong
  • Patent number: 10007765
    Abstract: Infusion systems, infusion devices, and related operating methods are provided. An exemplary method of operating an infusion device involves obtaining a filtered measurement indicative of a physiological condition of a user, determining a metric indicative of a characteristic of the filtered measurement based at least in part on one or more derivative metrics associated with the filtered measurement, and determining an output measurement indicative of the physiological condition of the user based at least in part on the filtered measurement, the metric, and a previous output measurement.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 19, 2014
    Date of Patent: June 26, 2018
    Assignee: MEDTRONIC MINIMED, INC.
    Inventors: Keith Nogueira, Pratik Agrawal, Brian T. Kannard, Xiaolong Li, Bradley C. Liang, Rajiv Shah, Yuxiang Zhong
  • Patent number: 9907491
    Abstract: Subject matter disclosed herein relates to monitoring and/or controlling levels of an analyte in bodily fluid. In particular, estimation of a concentration of the analyte in a first physiological compartment based upon observations of a concentration of the analyte in a second physiological compartment may account for a latency in transporting the analyte between the first and second physiological compartments.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 22, 2012
    Date of Patent: March 6, 2018
    Assignee: Medtronic Minimed, Inc.
    Inventors: Xialong Li, Brian T. Kannard, Rajiv Shah
  • Patent number: 9854998
    Abstract: Subject matter disclosed herein relates to monitoring and/or controlling levels of an analyte in bodily fluid. In particular, estimation of a concentration of the analyte in a first physiological compartment based upon observations of a concentration of the analyte in a second physiological compartment may account for a latency in transporting the analyte between the first and second physiological compartments.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 10, 2014
    Date of Patent: January 2, 2018
    Assignee: Medtronic Minimed, Inc.
    Inventors: Ning Yang, Rebecca K. Gottlieb, Keith Nogueira, Xiaolong Li, Bradley Liang, Brian T. Kannard
  • Publication number: 20160262671
    Abstract: A system to monitor and transmit a plurality of signals based on a characteristic of a user is disclosed. The system comprises a sensor to produce the plurality of signals on a continuous basis, the signals being indicative of a glucose characteristic measured in the user when a portion of the sensor is placed in subcutaneous tissue. The system further includes a recorder including a recorder port to physically couple and interface with a sensor port of the sensor and a dock remotely located from the sensor and the recorder. The dock includes a dock receiver to physically couple and interface with the recorder port. The recorder can record the signals produced from the sensor when the recorder is coupled to the sensor and the recorder can transmit the stored signals to the dock when the recorder is removed from the sensor and coupled to the dock.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 19, 2016
    Publication date: September 15, 2016
    Inventors: Daniel Villegas, Henry C. Sanders, Greg Bowden, Cary Talbot, Kris R. Holtzclaw, Hans K. Wenstad, Gary Cohen, Brian T. Kannard, Keith E. DeBrunner, Joseph Makram Arsanious, Fan Meng, Andrew Michael Bryan, Ulrich H. Rankers
  • Publication number: 20160228042
    Abstract: Subject matter disclosed herein relates to monitoring and/or controlling levels of an analyte in bodily fluid. In particular, estimation of a concentration of the analyte in a first physiological compartment based upon observations of a concentration of the analyte in a second physiological compartment may account for a latency in transporting the analyte between the first and second physiological compartments.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 22, 2012
    Publication date: August 11, 2016
    Applicant: MEDTRONIC MINIMED, INC.
    Inventors: Xiaolong Li, Brian T. Kannard, Rajiv Shah
  • Publication number: 20150331418
    Abstract: Infusion systems, infusion devices, and related operating methods are provided. An exemplary method of operating an infusion device capable of delivering fluid to a user involves obtaining one or more uncalibrated measurements indicative of the physiological condition, obtaining one or more reference measurements of the physiological condition, determining a raw calibration factor based on a relationship between the one or more uncalibrated measurements and the one or more reference measurements corresponding to the respective uncalibrated measurements of the one or more uncalibrated measurements, and determining an adjusted calibration factor based at least in part on an expected calibration factor and the raw calibration factor, wherein operation of the infusion device to deliver the fluid is influenced by the adjusted calibration factor.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 19, 2014
    Publication date: November 19, 2015
    Applicant: MEDTRONIC MINIMED, INC.
    Inventors: Keith Nogueira, Pratik Agrawal, Brian T. Kannard, Xiaolong Li, Bradley C. Liang, Rajiv Shah, Yuxiang Zhong