Patents by Inventor Charles Andrew Tompkins

Charles Andrew Tompkins 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).

  • System and method for prompt-radiology image screening service via satellite
    Patent number: 6137527
    Abstract: A satellite communication system for sending high resolution medically related images from a remote location to a central location for diagnostics, consisting of at least one remote transmitting and receiving station and a central diagnostic station adapted to provide an image based on a standard digital format such as Digital Imaging and Communications in Medicine (DICOM), and the Extended Transmission Control Protocol to transmit medically related images with a transmission efficiency of at least 90 percent to facilitate feed back while the patient remains at the remote transmitting and receiving station.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 23, 1996
    Date of Patent: October 24, 2000
    Assignee: General Electric Company
    Inventors: Aiman Albert Abdel-Malek, Kathryn Eike Dudding, Bruce Gordon Barnett, Charles Andrew Tompkins, Mohsen Gharabaghloo