Patents Examined by Sind Phongsvirajati
  • Patent number: 9031774
    Abstract: The present invention provides an apparatus and method for predicting a moving direction of another vehicle running on a carriageway adjacent to a user's vehicle using periodically acquired image information around the user's vehicle, and performing a control process of preventing collision of the user's vehicle when a moving direction of the user's vehicle crosses the moving direction of the other vehicle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 13, 2010
    Date of Patent: May 12, 2015
    Assignees: Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute, Andong University Industry-Academic Cooperation Foundation
    Inventors: Jung Hee Suk, Ik Jae Chun, Chun Gi Lyuh, Soon Il Yeo, Wook Jin Chung, Jeong Hwan Lee, Jae Chang Shim, Tae Moon Roh
  • Patent number: 8948924
    Abstract: An apparatus and method of determining a driving state of a moving object using a gravity value sensor and a speed measurement device is provided. Specifically, disclosed is an apparatus and method that can determine whether a moving object is in a level driving state or in an inclining/declining-slope driving state using a Y-axis measurement value of an acceleration sensor and a speed of a speed measurement unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 28, 2008
    Date of Patent: February 3, 2015
    Assignee: Thinkware Systems Corporation
    Inventors: Kwon Soo Lee, Yong Kwan Park
  • Patent number: 8924237
    Abstract: A database system stores information about potential patients that allows medical professionals to gauge the legal risk presented by the potential patients, giving the medical professionals the opportunity to avoid medical involvement with those individuals most prone to engaging in unwarranted legal actions. The database may also be used by insurance companies, legal services and other professional service providers to screen for potentially litigious customers. Information in the database is processed to provide a risk assessment score for each patient that is used for screening purposes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 26, 2007
    Date of Patent: December 30, 2014
    Assignee: Fred Herz Patents, LLC
    Inventors: Frederick S. M. Herz, Walter Paul Labys
  • Patent number: 8924239
    Abstract: A system for improving health and monitoring diet has been developed which enables a consumer before making important decisions which effect health to consider health, nutrition, dietary, budget, and time information resources more easily before decisions are made. The system has a variety of user inputs that enable the user to access information easily and enter information easily, so that the personal profile and health history and diet information is up-to-date. This system is adjustable to contain additional modules of information such as dietary restrictions which can be used to regularly recommend or restrict purchase decisions at the point of sale, storage, preparation, or consumption.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 11, 2013
    Date of Patent: December 30, 2014
    Inventor: Maureen Kurple
  • Patent number: 8924224
    Abstract: A method, system and computerized medium in a computerized environment for placing optional orders for an order set for a patient is provided. A request to display an order set for a patient is received. The order set comprises one or more optional orders. The optional orders that may or may not be placed for the order set. The optional orders are determined and the optional orders are displayed. A selection of one or more of the optional orders to be placed for the order set is received and the selected optional orders are placed for the order set.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 2, 2006
    Date of Patent: December 30, 2014
    Assignee: Cerner Innovation, Inc.
    Inventors: Mark A. Hoffman, Scott M. Haven, Ginger H. Kuhns, Kevin M. Power
  • Patent number: 8843382
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a system for providing clinical information in real time, to a method for providing clinical information in real time, and to a storage medium on which a program performing same is recorded. According to the present invention, the advantage of providing ultrasonic images of an unborn child in real time without an additional storage medium is that the level of clinical service provided to a pregnant woman and her family can be improved.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 11, 2011
    Date of Patent: September 23, 2014
    Assignee: Medinbiz Co. Ltd.
    Inventor: Nam Ju Kim
  • Patent number: 8831317
    Abstract: Blood streams different in direction can be selectively depicted, and a blood vessel image (MRA image) which has an excellent blood vessel contrast and in which a background signal is suppressed is obtained. Therefore, the present invention sets a pre-saturation area (pre-saturation area) in an area containing at least a part of an imaging area and performs imaging in a blood vessel imaging operation using a pre-saturation pulse for pre-exciting spins.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 6, 2008
    Date of Patent: September 9, 2014
    Assignee: Hitachi Medical Corporation
    Inventors: Hideki Kumai, Taeko Ito
  • Patent number: 8825502
    Abstract: A system provides an information sharing architecture that allows physically separate healthcare information systems, called “deployments,” to share and exchange information. The collection of these participating deployments is referred to as the “Community,” and systems within the Community sometimes store records for patients in common. The system allows participants in the Community to share information on data changes to these patients, and to reconcile concurrent and conflicting updates to the patient's record.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 5, 2004
    Date of Patent: September 2, 2014
    Assignee: Epic Systems Corporation
    Inventors: Daniel S. Bormann, Aaron T. Cornelius, Timothy W. Escher, Sameer Grover, Andrew M. E. Giesler, Jason L. Hansen, Clifford L. Michalski, Vassil D. Peytchev
  • Patent number: 8818824
    Abstract: An inventory management system manages information regarding medical items dispensed in conjunction with medical treatment of a patient at a medical facility. The system includes a first computer, an inventory access control system, inventory sensors, and inventory applications in communication with the first computer. The inventory access control system receives credential information from a user seeking access to a physical inventory space in the medical facility and controls access to the space. The inventory sensors sense the removal of medical items to be dispensed to the patient, and generate item usage information indicating the identity and quantity of the items removed. The inventory applications associate the item usage information with patient information that identifies the patient to which the medical items are dispensed, thereby generating a record indicating that the items removed from the storage structure have been dispensed to the patient identified by the patient information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 1, 2011
    Date of Patent: August 26, 2014
    Assignee: DeRoyal Industries, Inc.
    Inventors: Brian C. DeBusk, Angela M. Sewell, John G. Jacobs, Gregory S. Hodge, Kevin E. Lynch, William G. Pittman
  • Patent number: 8799018
    Abstract: A system for determining a second drug and a third drug that may collectively be taken by a patient in lieu of a first drug prescribed to the patient by a physician comprises a processor in data communication with a non-transitory memory, an input device, an output device, and a networking device. The system also comprises a patients' database for storing a profile of the patient, and a drug pricing database for storing the first price, the second price, and the third price for the first, the second, and the third drugs, respectively. The first price is greater than a sum of the second and the third price. The system further comprises a drug segregation database for outlining that the first drug is segregable into the second drug and the third drug.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 4, 2013
    Date of Patent: August 5, 2014
    Assignee: RX Savings, LLC
    Inventors: Michael Rea, Douglas Besch
  • Patent number: 8793142
    Abstract: A method of enabling remote medical diagnosis of a medical condition comprising: providing a software application for a mobile device designed to: provide a graphical user interface on a display of the mobile device wherein the graphical user interface is designed to allow a patient to collect data for use in the medical diagnosis of the medical condition; communicate the data from the mobile device to a medical professional; and receive a medical diagnosis from the medical professional.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 6, 2011
    Date of Patent: July 29, 2014
    Inventors: Harvey Abraham Fishman, Michael Joseph Dacey, Jr., Tamer Abuelata
  • Patent number: 8781855
    Abstract: An integrated point of care medication administration system comprises a point of care medication administration system including an interface for communicating with the at least one repository and information sources and including a processor. The processor uses the information and the interface in automatically acquiring for a particular patient, data representing particular patient parameters and laboratory test results associated with a particular individual medication in response to user initiation of an order for the particular individual medication to be administered to the particular patient. A display device presents at least one display image indicating acquired particular patient parameters and laboratory test results of the particular patient and identifying a particular patient parameter or laboratory test result needing to be acquired prior to administration of the particular individual medication to the particular patient.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 14, 2012
    Date of Patent: July 15, 2014
    Assignee: Siemens Medical Solutions USA, Inc.
    Inventors: Raymond F Miller, Alan M Portnoy, Deborah A Saeger
  • Patent number: 8775206
    Abstract: A method for detecting privacy violations of patient personal healthcare information (PHI) can include receiving audit logs from all systems within a healthcare facility. These audit logs are generated any time PHI is accessed. The Healthcare Privacy Violation Detection System (HPV-DS) compares these generate audit logs to prior access history of the employee or authorized user that generated the audit log. If any field in the generated audit log is different from the authorized user's prior access history, the risk of a privacy violation is assessed and a risk score is assigned. For audit logs that differ from past access history enough, an alert turned on and the audit log is flagged for administrators to review.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 8, 2013
    Date of Patent: July 8, 2014
    Inventor: Amit Kulkarni
  • Patent number: 8768719
    Abstract: A system, method and computer program for programming a medical device to administer a medication to a patient includes the medical device, a scanner that may be associated with a point of care (POC) system, and a medication management unit (MMU). A computer in the POC system can directly program the medical device with the permission of the MMU after a full “five rights” check or the “right patient” check can be delayed until after the pump program is downloaded. Other workflows are disclosed for programming the medical device in manual, semi-automatic and automatic modes, with safety checks incorporated at various points.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 28, 2007
    Date of Patent: July 1, 2014
    Assignee: Hospira, Inc.
    Inventors: Steven R. Wehba, Jeffrey Eugene Rinda, Barbara Mary Trohimovich, Jeff Pelletier
  • Patent number: 8756080
    Abstract: Delivery of health information to a patient suffering from a chronic condition is personalized by displaying the health information directly on a customized image of a body. The patient's medical record, standards of care for the condition, prescribed treatments, and patient input are applied to a generalized health model of a disease to generate a personalized health model of the patient. The personalized health model comprises an HTML file encoding an image map of a body. The body image illustrates the health condition of the individual patient. Preferably, data is collected from health provider sources and stored in a database on a server at a service provider site. The data is processed at the server, and is displayed in the patient's home using a TV connected to a multimedia processor. The multimedia processor connects the television set to a communications network such as the Internet.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 13, 2012
    Date of Patent: June 17, 2014
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventor: Stephen J. Brown
  • Patent number: 8751252
    Abstract: Certain embodiments of the present invention provide a method for validating clinical data including receiving a consistency requirement, receiving a data claim associated with clinical data, and evaluating the data claim based at least in part on the consistency requirement. Certain embodiments of the present invention provide a clinical data validation system including a consistency requirement input component adapted to receive a consistency requirement, a data claim input component adapted to receive a data claim, and a validation component adapted to evaluate the data claim based at least in part on the consistency requirement. The data claim is associated with clinical data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 27, 2007
    Date of Patent: June 10, 2014
    Assignee: General Electric Company
    Inventor: Forrest Lee Chamberlain
  • Patent number: 8744876
    Abstract: A bracelet beacon device (10) includes a flexible material strap (16) which encases or is attached to a writable layer (22) carrying human readable patient identification information, a flexible power supply (26), and a flexible circuit layer (24). The flexible circuit layer includes a memory (40) for storing at least patient identification information and a body coupled communication transmitter (42) for transmitting the patient identification information via the patient using a body coupled communication protocol.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 11, 2009
    Date of Patent: June 3, 2014
    Assignee: Koninklijke Philips N.V.
    Inventor: Brian Gross
  • Patent number: 8737709
    Abstract: Embodiments disclosed herein include methods, systems, and devices for determining a positive or negative correlation between a clinical outcome and one or more features of biological tissue. An exemplary user interface enables a user to select a clinical outcome and one or more aspects of a displayed field-of-view of biological tissue. Exemplary embodiments may automatically perform correlation analysis between the selected clinical outcome and one or more features characteristic of the user-selected aspects of the field-of-view of biological tissue. For example, exemplary embodiments may automatically perform correlation analysis between the selected clinical outcome and one or more features characteristic of one or more biological units in the biological tissue.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 30, 2012
    Date of Patent: May 27, 2014
    Assignee: General Electric Company
    Inventors: Vidya Pundalik Kamath, Colin Craig Mcculloch, Megan Rothney, Alberto Santamaria-Pang, Brion Daryl Sarachan
  • Patent number: 8725535
    Abstract: Certain embodiments of the present invention provide a clinical information system including a user interface and a custom range storage component. The user interface is adapted to allow a user to configure a custom range. The custom range is configured for a lab result. The custom range storage component adapted to store the configured custom range.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 26, 2007
    Date of Patent: May 13, 2014
    Assignee: General Electric Company
    Inventors: Steve Lawrence Fors, Mark M. Morita, William Douglas Hughes
  • Patent number: 8719044
    Abstract: Methods for use in, e.g., in-patient care computing environment, for displaying clinically-related in-patient information on at least one patient-viewable display device are provided. A method in accordance with one embodiment of the present invention may include receiving a clinical order associated with an in-patient, automatically generating one or more tasks based on the clinical order received, and automatically displaying the task(s) on the patient-viewable display device. If desired, the method may additionally include associating the clinical order and the task(s) with an electronic record associated with the in-patient (e.g., an electronic medical record), and accessing the electronic record to obtain the one or more tasks for display on the patient-viewable display device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 2, 2005
    Date of Patent: May 6, 2014
    Assignee: Cerner Innovation, Inc.
    Inventors: Jill R. Hungerford, Charles Cameron Brackett