Patents by Inventor Jeffrey A. Secunda

Jeffrey A. Secunda 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: 4537128
    Abstract: A system designed to enable persons incapable of manipulating a writing implement to sign papers and/or documents comprising a holder for the document to be signed, a holder for a transfer sheet for holding the transfer sheet adjacent that portion of the document to be signed and an implement defining the signature to be applied to the document for pressing the transfer sheet into transferring engagement with the document.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 20, 1983
    Date of Patent: August 27, 1985
    Assignee: Massachusetts General Hospital
    Inventors: Robert H. Burroughs, John D. Wright, Jeffrey A. Secunda, Ronald S. Newbower
  • Patent number: 4424814
    Abstract: The detector provides an effective means of non-invasively monitoring the perfusion of blood by external cardiac massage during a cardiac arrest. A Doppler probe is adhesively placed on the patient's skin, preferably to sense the carotid pulse which has been found as the most significant indicator of sufficient cerebral perfusion. The electronic part of the detector measures both the period of blood flow (T.sub.f), and the period of the external cardiac massage (ECM) cycle (T.sub.ecm). The electronic components comprise a flow detector such as a Doppler sensor and Schmidtt trigger, a rate converter such as a frequency to voltage converter feeding a voltage controlled oscillator, and a counter and display. The preferred display is a series of ten light indicators for demarcating perfusion ratio in 10% increments.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 30, 1981
    Date of Patent: January 10, 1984
    Inventor: Jeffrey Secunda