Patents by Inventor Matthew J. Novak

Matthew J. Novak 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: 6983176
    Abstract: Systems and methods for establishing and/or maintaining the prediction capability over time of a multivariate calibration model designed for quantitative optical spectroscopic measurement of attributes or analytes in bodily tissues, bodily fluids or other biological samples, which are particularly useful when the spectral absorbance of the attribute or analyte is small relative to the background. The present invention provides an optically similar reference sample to capture the characteristics of instrument and environmental variation and to reduce the effect of such variation on the measurement capability of the model. The optically similar reference is preferably stable over time and is designed such that its optical properties are sufficiently matched to the sample of interest that instrument and environmental variations are captured in the same manner in both the test sample of interest and the optically similar reference sample.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 11, 2001
    Date of Patent: January 3, 2006
    Assignee: Rio Grande Medical Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Craig Gardner, Michael J. Haass, Robert K. Rowe, Howland Jones, Steven T. Strohl, Matthew J. Novak, Russell E. Abbink, David Nuñez, William Gruner, Robert D. Johnson
  • Publication number: 20030023170
    Abstract: Systems and methods for establishing and/or maintaining the prediction capability over time of a multivariate calibration model designed for quantitative optical spectroscopic measurement of attributes or analytes in bodily tissues, bodily fluids or other biological samples, which are particularly useful when the spectral absorbance of the attribute or analyte is small relative to the background. The present invention provides an optically similar reference sample to capture the characteristics of instrument and environmental variation and to reduce the effect of such variation on the measurement capability of the model. The optically similar reference is preferably stable over time and is designed such that its optical properties are sufficiently matched to the sample of interest that instrument and environmental variations are captured in the same manner in both the test sample of interest and the optically similar reference sample.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 11, 2001
    Publication date: January 30, 2003
    Inventors: Craig Gardner, Michael J. Haass, Robert K. Rowe, Howland Jones, Steven T. Strohl, Matthew J. Novak, Russell E. Abbink, David Nunez, William Gruner, Robert D. Johnson