Patents by Inventor Richard J. Rovinelli

Richard J. Rovinelli 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).

  • Computer architecture and process of user evaluation
    Patent number: 8096811
    Abstract: The present invention is generally related to a computer architecture and process for evaluating and reporting on a user's competence in managing a simulation of a complex system modeled in a computer based testing and training system. The simulation may be called a “virtual system.” The method generates evaluation criteria responsive to a user profile, user choices in managing the virtual system, and events that occur during a simulation, in addition to the original state of the system. The method produces summary evaluations responsive to a plurality of characteristics of the simulated system. The implementation may be advantageously employed to evaluate a medical clinician's management of computer-simulated human patients, hereinafter called “virtual patients”. The present invention is also suitable for evaluation of user management of a plurality of complex systems including but not limited to animals, plants, cells, machines, and populations.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 29, 2004
    Date of Patent: January 17, 2012
    Assignee: American Board of Family Medicine, Inc.
    Inventors: Walton Sumner, II, Jinzhong Xu, Guy H. Roussel, Richard J. Rovinelli, Michael D. Hagen
  • Computer architecture and process of patient generation, evolution, and simulation for computer based testing system
    Patent number: 7653556
    Abstract: A computer implemented simulation and evaluation method simulates interventions to a patient by a user, and evaluates the interventions responsive to predetermined criteria and the interventions. The method includes defining a test area to evaluate the user to at least one of predetermined criteria and a user profile, selecting genetic information of the patient responsive to the test area, and generating a patient history responsive to the test area and the genetic information. The method also includes receiving at least one intervention input by the user, and evaluating the user responsive to the intervention and predetermined criteria.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 8, 2005
    Date of Patent: January 26, 2010
    Assignee: American Board of Family Medicine, Inc.
    Inventors: Richard J. Rovinelli, Walton Sumner, II, Victor W. Marek, Miroslav Truszczynski
  • Computer architecture and process of patient generation, evolution, and simulation for computer based testing system
    Patent number: 6978244
    Abstract: A computer implemented simulation and evaluation method simulates interventions to a patient by a user, and evaluates the interventions responsive to predetermined criteria and the interventions. The method includes defining a test area to evaluate the user to at least one of predetermined criteria and a user profile, selecting genetic information of the patient responsive to the test area, and generating a patient history responsive to the test area and the genetic information. The method also includes receiving at least one intervention input by the user, and evaluating the user responsive to the intervention and predetermined criteria.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 16, 2001
    Date of Patent: December 20, 2005
    Assignee: American Board of Family Practice, Inc.
    Inventors: Richard J. Rovinelli, Walton Sumner, II, Victor W. Marek, Miroslaw Truszczynski
  • Computer architecture and process of patient generation, evolution, and simulation for computer based testing system
    Publication number: 20010001852
    Abstract: A computer implemented simulation and evaluation method simulates interventions to a patient by a user, and evaluates the interventions responsive to predetermined criteria and the interventions. The method includes defining a test area to evaluate the user to at least one of predetermined criteria and a user profile, selecting genetic information of the patient responsive to the test area, and generating a patient history responsive to the test area and the genetic information. The method also includes receiving at least one intervention input by the user, and evaluating the user responsive to the intervention and predetermined criteria.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 16, 2001
    Publication date: May 24, 2001
    Inventors: Richard J. Rovinelli, Walton Sumner, Victor W. Marek, Miroslaw Truszczynski