Patents by Inventor Bruce Arnold
Bruce Arnold 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).
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Publication number: 20230045386Abstract: The interactive and shared surface technique described herein employs hardware that can project on any surface, capture color video of that surface, and get depth information of and above the surface while preventing visual feedback (also known as video feedback, video echo, or visual echo). The technique provides N-way sharing of a surface using video compositing. It also provides for automatic calibration of hardware components, including calibration of any projector, RGB camera, depth camera and any microphones employed by the technique. The technique provides object manipulation with physical, visual, audio, and hover gestures and interaction between digital objects displayed on the surface and physical objects placed on or above the surface. It can capture and scan the surface in a manner that captures or scans exactly what the user sees, which includes both local and remote objects, drawings, annotations, hands, and so forth.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 20, 2022Publication date: February 9, 2023Applicant: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLCInventors: Sasa JUNUZOVIC, William Thomas BLANK, Bruce Arnold CLEARY, III, Anoop GUPTA, Andrew D. WILSON
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Patent number: 11509861Abstract: The interactive and shared surface technique described herein employs hardware that can project on any surface, capture color video of that surface, and get depth information of and above the surface while preventing visual feedback (also known as video feedback, video echo, or visual echo). The technique provides N-way sharing of a surface using video compositing. It also provides for automatic calibration of hardware components, including calibration of any projector, RGB camera, depth camera and any microphones employed by the technique. The technique provides object manipulation with physical, visual, audio, and hover gestures and interaction between digital objects displayed on the surface and physical objects placed on or above the surface. It can capture and scan the surface in a manner that captures or scans exactly what the user sees, which includes both local and remote objects, drawings, annotations, hands, and so forth.Type: GrantFiled: December 15, 2016Date of Patent: November 22, 2022Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLCInventors: Sasa Junuzovic, William Thomas Blank, Bruce Arnold Cleary, III, Anoop Gupta, Andrew D. Wilson
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Patent number: 10362372Abstract: As the acuity level of a patient being monitored on a wireless system changes, the criticality of that patient's data arriving at its intended destination changes. For example, if a patient being monitored for potentially life threatening arrhythmias begins to decline in health while being monitored on a less reliable wireless system, the wireless monitor switches to a more reliable wireless system to ensure delivery of critical patient data. Allowing a patient monitor to switch between wireless infrastructures based on patient acuity limits the number of users operating on the higher cost wireless infrastructure.Type: GrantFiled: December 30, 2013Date of Patent: July 23, 2019Assignee: GENERAL ELECTRIC COMPANYInventors: Matthew Richard Pekarske, SM S. Hasan, Bruce Arnold Friedman
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Publication number: 20180289530Abstract: A heating tape system includes an adhesive tape and a power supply. The adhesive tape is made of an anisotropically stretchable fabric material with a pressure sensitive adhesive fixed on one side of the fabric material, and a heating element coupled to the fabric material. A first load contact and a second load contact, both electrically coupled to the heating element and accessible from the opposite side of the fabric material, are also included on the adhesive tape. The power supply includes a source of electrical energy with a first source contact electrically coupled to one terminal of the source of electrical energy and adapted to be electrically coupled to the first load contact, and a second source contact electrically coupled to a second terminal of the source of electrical energy and adapted to be electrically coupled to the second load contact.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 15, 2016Publication date: October 11, 2018Applicant: Rocktape, Inc.Inventors: Gregory van den Dries, Vitaly Vasilyevich Gashpar, Bruce Arnold Young
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Patent number: 9943270Abstract: A monitoring device operable to provide information on data obtained from sensors operably connected between a patient and the device is provided that includes a central processing unit configured to receive incoming data signals from sensors concerning physiological parameters of the patient to compare the incoming data signals to predetermined alarm limits for the physiological parameters to determine an alarm condition and an analytics engine operably connected to the central processing unit and selectively operable to provide predictions of adverse events using the incoming data signals. The central processing unit is configured to alter the alarm limits for at least one of the physiological parameters in response to the activation of the analytics engine to reduce clinically irrelevant alarms.Type: GrantFiled: June 30, 2015Date of Patent: April 17, 2018Assignee: GENERAL ELECTRIC COMPANYInventors: Bruce Arnold Friedman, Stephen Thomas Treacy, David Alan Sitzman, Michael John Palmer
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Patent number: 9935852Abstract: Methods and system for network monitoring is provided. The system includes a communication circuit configured to receive network information from one or more components of a medical network for a select time period, and a controller circuit having one or more processors coupled to the communication circuit. The controller circuit is configured to determine a configuration and data usage of the medical network based on the network information at reference points along the time period of interest. The controller circuit is configured to generate a graphical representation of a topology of the medical network on a display based on the configuration of the medical network at one of the reference points. The graphical representation includes a plurality of component markers, representing the one or more components, interconnected with each other, and a visual status indicator for the one or more components based on the data usage.Type: GrantFiled: June 6, 2016Date of Patent: April 3, 2018Assignee: General Electric CompanyInventors: Mark Nasgowitz, Bruce Arnold Friedman, Robert Joseph Alberte, Jr., Paul Robert Brozowski
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Publication number: 20170353366Abstract: Methods and system for network monitoring is provided. The system includes a communication circuit configured to receive network information from one or more components of a medical network for a select time period, and a controller circuit having one or more processors coupled to the communication circuit. The controller circuit is configured to determine a configuration and data usage of the medical network based on the network information at reference points along the time period of interest. The controller circuit is configured to generate a graphical representation of a topology of the medical network on a display based on the configuration of the medical network at one of the reference points. The graphical representation includes a plurality of component markers, representing the one or more components, interconnected with each other, and a visual status indicator for the one or more components based on the data usage.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 6, 2016Publication date: December 7, 2017Inventors: Mark Nasgowitz, Bruce Arnold Friedman, Robert Joseph Alberte, JR., Paul Robert Brozowski
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Publication number: 20170270258Abstract: A system for managing cleaning of one or more medical devices includes a central computing system having a processor, the central computing system communicatively connected to the one or more medical devices. The system further includes a cleaning mode module executable on a processor of the one or more medical devices to initiate a cleaning event, disable control input function of one or more touch inputs to the medical device, record cleaning event information, end the cleaning event and re-enable the control input function of the one or more touch inputs, and transmit the cleaning event information to the central computing system. The system further includes a cleaning report module executable on the processor of the central computing system to generate a cleaning report from the cleaning event information and store the cleaning report.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 16, 2016Publication date: September 21, 2017Applicant: General Electric CompanyInventors: David Wayne Duckert, Bruce Arnold Friedman
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Publication number: 20170099453Abstract: The interactive and shared surface technique described herein employs hardware that can project on any surface, capture color video of that surface, and get depth information of and above the surface while preventing visual feedback (also known as video feedback, video echo, or visual echo). The technique provides N-way sharing of a surface using video compositing. It also provides for automatic calibration of hardware components, including calibration of any projector, RGB camera, depth camera and any microphones employed by the technique. The technique provides object manipulation with physical, visual, audio, and hover gestures and interaction between digital objects displayed on the surface and physical objects placed on or above the surface. It can capture and scan the surface in a manner that captures or scans exactly what the user sees, which includes both local and remote objects, drawings, annotations, hands, and so forth.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 15, 2016Publication date: April 6, 2017Applicant: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLCInventors: Sasa Junuzovic, William Thomas Blank, Bruce Arnold Cleary, III, Anoop Gupta, Andrew D. Wilson
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Patent number: 9572538Abstract: A method of prioritizing arrhythmia alarms based on one patient's perfusion level includes receiving arterial blood pressure, electrocardiogram heart rate, and arterial pulse rate values of the one patient during a same time window. Analyzing the set of blood pressure values to determine if an arrhythmia event is indicated, where if an arrhythmia event is indicated, the method includes calculating a systolic blood pressure (SBP) ratio, comparing the SBP ratio to a first predetermined threshold, and if the SBP ratio is less than or equal to the first predetermined threshold, then activating a non-perfusion alarm. If the SBP ratio is greater than the first predetermined threshold, then calculating a standard deviation of a rate differential between the heart rate and the pulse rate values, and if the standard deviation is greater than a second predetermined threshold, then activating the non-perfusion alarm. A system and non-transitory computer media is also presented.Type: GrantFiled: February 25, 2014Date of Patent: February 21, 2017Assignee: General Electric CompanyInventors: David Alan Sitzman, Bruce Arnold Friedman, Sahika Genc, Kalpit Vikrambhai Desai, Michael Anthony Lexa, Brett Matthews
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Patent number: 9560314Abstract: The interactive and shared surface technique described herein employs hardware that can project on any surface, capture color video of that surface, and get depth information of and above the surface while preventing visual feedback (also known as video feedback, video echo, or visual echo). The technique provides N-way sharing of a surface using video compositing. It also provides for automatic calibration of hardware components, including calibration of any projector, RGB camera, depth camera and any microphones employed by the technique. The technique provides object manipulation with physical, visual, audio, and hover gestures and interaction between digital objects displayed on the surface and physical objects placed on or above the surface. It can capture and scan the surface in a manner that captures or scans exactly what the user sees, which includes both local and remote objects, drawings, annotations, hands, and so forth.Type: GrantFiled: June 14, 2011Date of Patent: January 31, 2017Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLCInventors: Sasa Junuzovic, William Thomas Blank, Bruce Arnold Cleary, III, Anoop Gupta, Andrew D. Wilson
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Publication number: 20170000424Abstract: A monitoring device operable to provide information on data obtained from sensors operably connected between a patient and the device is provided that includes a central processing unit configured to receive incoming data signals from sensors concerning physiological parameters of the patient to compare the incoming data signals to predetermined alarm limits for the physiological parameters to determine an alarm condition and an analytics engine operably connected to the central processing unit and selectively operable to provide predictions of adverse events using the incoming data signals. The central processing unit is configured to alter the alarm limits for at least one of the physiological parameters in response to the activation of the analytics engine to reduce clinically irrelevant alarms.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 30, 2015Publication date: January 5, 2017Inventors: Bruce Arnold Friedman, Stephen Thomas Treacy, David Alan Sitzman, Michael John Palmer
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Publication number: 20160174908Abstract: A monitoring or diagnostic device including a display having a display screen on which incoming data from sensors attached to the item or object being monitored by the device is illustrated. The incoming data is represented on the display screen to enable an individual viewing the display screen to determine the current operating condition or parameters of the item or object, such as a patient. The device and display screen can also illustrate various alarm conditions or events, as determined by the device to draw the attention of the individual to those alarm conditions. To assist in this function, the device represents the incoming data from a sensor giving rise to the alarm condition or event, as well as additional incoming data from other sensors corresponding in some manner to the alarm condition, on the display screen in a visually different or distinct manner from the rest of the incoming data not relating to the alarm condition or event.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 10, 2015Publication date: June 23, 2016Inventors: Renjith S. Nair, Sahika Genc, Stephen Thomas Treacy, Bruce Arnold Friedman, David Alan Sitzman, William James Balloni
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Publication number: 20150238151Abstract: A method of prioritizing arrhythmia alarms based on one patient's perfusion level includes receiving arterial blood pressure, electrocardiogram heart rate, and arterial pulse rate values of the one patient during a same time window. Analysing the set of blood pressure values to determine if an arrhythmia event is indicated, where if an arrhythmia event is indicated, the method includes calculating a systolic blood pressure (SBP) ratio, comparing the SBP ratio to a first predetermined threshold, and if the SBP ratio is less than or equal to the first predetermined threshold, then activating a non-perfusion alarm. If the SBP ratio is greater than the first predetermined threshold, then calculating a standard deviation of a rate differential between the heart rate and the pulse rate values, and if the standard deviation is greater than a second predetermined threshold, then activating the non-perfusion alarm. A system and non-transitory computer media is also presented.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 25, 2014Publication date: August 27, 2015Applicant: General Electric CompanyInventors: David Alan Sitzman, Bruce Arnold Friedman, Sahika Genc, Kalpit Vikrambhai Desai, Michael Anthony Lexa, Brett Matthews
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Publication number: 20150189404Abstract: As the acuity level of a patient being monitored on a wireless system changes, the criticality of that patient's data arriving at its intended destination changes. For example, if a patient being monitored for potentially life threatening arrhythmias begins to decline in health while being monitored on a less reliable wireless system, the wireless monitor switches to a more reliable wireless system to ensure delivery of critical patient data. Allowing a patient monitor to switch between wireless infrastructures based on patient acuity limits the number of users operating on the higher cost wireless infrastructure.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 30, 2013Publication date: July 2, 2015Applicant: GENERAL ELECTRIC COMPANYInventors: Matthew Richard Pekarske, SM S. Hasan, Bruce Arnold Friedman
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Publication number: 20150148617Abstract: A patient monitoring system and method is disclosed herein. The system includes one or more patient monitors that obtain physiological data from a patient. Based upon the physiological data obtained from the patient, as well as the information available for the patient in an electronic health record, an algorithm selection device determines which one of a plurality of early warning algorithms are best suited for use in monitoring a patient. One or more early warning algorithms can be presented to a user for selection. Once the algorithm selection device or the user determines which of a plurality of early warning algorithms would be most effective, the early warning algorithm is downloaded to the patient monitor for use by the patient monitor. The patient monitor utilizes the downloaded early warning algorithm to generate alarms and alerts to indicate the health status of the patient being monitored.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 27, 2013Publication date: May 28, 2015Applicant: GENERAL ELECTRIC COMPANYInventor: Bruce Arnold Friedman
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Patent number: 8834381Abstract: A pressure cuff is disclosed herein. The pressure cuff includes a sleeve and a cuff bladder. The cuff bladder defines a bladder length of 9.2+/?2.1 centimeters and a bladder width of 24.6+/?4.2 centimeters. The bladder length and bladder width dimensions provide precise non-invasive blood pressure measurements when the pressure cuff is applied to a forearm having a circumference in the range of 27 to 37 centimeters.Type: GrantFiled: December 20, 2012Date of Patent: September 16, 2014Assignee: General Electric CompanyInventors: John Clemmons, Bruce Arnold Friedman
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Patent number: 8422464Abstract: A node is configured for transmitting a data packet over a wireless network according to a differentiated services control parameter. The node includes a controller configured to provide individualized control of the differentiated services code parameter and also to provide individualized control over a payload in the data packet. The controller is also configured to receive data to be transmitted over the wireless network, assign a priority level to the data, and adjust the differentiated services control parameter setting for the node based on the priority level. The controller is also configured to determine a signal quality indicator for the wireless network, and to adjust the amount of the data included in the payload based on the signal quality indicator.Type: GrantFiled: December 29, 2010Date of Patent: April 16, 2013Assignee: General Electric CompanyInventors: Bruce Arnold Friedman, Matthew George Grubis, Matthew Richard Pekarske
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Patent number: 8422463Abstract: A node is configured for transmitting a data packet over a wireless network. The node includes a controller configured to provide individualized control of a payload in the data packet. The controller is further configured to receive data to be transmitted over the wireless network, to determine a signal quality indicator for the wireless network, and to adjust the amount of the data included in the payload based on the signal quality indicator.Type: GrantFiled: December 29, 2010Date of Patent: April 16, 2013Assignee: General Electric CompanyInventors: Matthew Richard Pekarske, Bruce Arnold Friedman, Matthew George Grubis
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Patent number: D1003644Type: GrantFiled: May 17, 2021Date of Patent: November 7, 2023Assignee: Sunbeam Products, Inc.Inventors: Bruce Arnold, Rury Vizcarra, Charlotte Zale, Chris Leyden