Patents by Inventor Brad ASTOR

Brad ASTOR 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).

  • METHOD FOR DETERMINING VASCULAR ACCESS RISK IN A HEMODIALYSIS PATIENT POPULATION
    Publication number: 20210257102
    Abstract: A method for determining risk of an adverse event, such as thrombosis or a required intervention, associated with a vascular access includes receiving hemodialysis treatment data associated with the vascular access, deriving a plurality of selected risk factors from the hemodialysis treatment data, evaluating the plurality of selected risk factors over a time period, assigning raw scores to each selected risk factor based on its values over the time period, summing the raw scores for the plurality of selected risk factors to determine a cumulative raw score, and correlating the cumulative raw score with a level of risk of an adverse event associated with the vascular access.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 6, 2021
    Publication date: August 19, 2021
    Inventors: John KENNEDY, Brad ASTOR, Jeffrey J. SANDS, Helen Kimball HIRSCHMAN, Douglas CURRY, Stanley FRINAK, Gerard ZASUWA, Jerry YEE, Anatole BESARAB, Lalathaksha KUMBAR
  • Method for determining vascular access risk in a hemodialysis patient population
    Patent number: 10916349
    Abstract: A method for determining risk of an adverse event, such as thrombosis or a required intervention, associated with a vascular access includes receiving hemodialysis treatment data associated with the vascular access, deriving a plurality of selected risk factors from the hemodialysis treatment data, evaluating the plurality of selected risk factors over a time period, assigning raw scores to each selected risk factor based on its values over the time period, summing the raw scores for the plurality of selected risk factors to determine a cumulative raw score, and correlating the cumulative raw score with a level of risk of an adverse event associated with the vascular access.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 20, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 9, 2021
    Assignee: Henry Ford Health System
    Inventors: John Kennedy, Brad Astor, Jeffrey J. Sands, Helen Kimball Hirschman, Douglas Curry, Stanley Frinak, Gerard Zasuwa, Jerry Yee, Anatole Besarab, Lalathaksha Kumbar
  • METHOD FOR DETERMINING VASCULAR ACCESS RISK IN A HEMODIALYSIS PATIENT POPULATION
    Publication number: 20200098479
    Abstract: A method for determining risk of an adverse event, such as thrombosis or a required intervention, associated with a vascular access includes receiving hemodialysis treatment data associated with the vascular access, deriving a plurality of selected risk factors from the hemodialysis treatment data, evaluating the plurality of selected risk factors over a time period, assigning raw scores to each selected risk factor based on its values over the time period, summing the raw scores for the plurality of selected risk factors to determine a cumulative raw score, and correlating the cumulative raw score with a level of risk of an adverse event associated with the vascular access.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 20, 2019
    Publication date: March 26, 2020
    Inventors: John KENNEDY, Brad ASTOR, Jeffrey J. SANDS, Helen Kimball HIRSCHMAN, Douglas CURRY, Stanley FRINAK, Gerard ZASUWA, Jerry YEE, Anatole BESARAB, Lalathaksha KUMBAR