Patents by Inventor Conor Michael Minogue

Conor Michael Minogue 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 and apparatus for electrical stimulation
    Patent number: 6944503
    Abstract: Pulsed electrical stimulation is applied to selected tissues via electrodes positioned on and/or in the body. Each electrode is connected to an output (108) of the apparatus. Each output (108) is connected between a high side switch (110) and a low side switch (112) of a switching array. Each stimulation pulse is subdivided into a number of time periods. By operation of the switches (110, 112) each electrode can be selected to operate as an anode or a cathode or neither during any given time period. The spatial and/or time summation of the anode-cathode currents is controlled to selectively to stimulate selected regions and/or types of tissues, typically nerve tissues.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 12, 2002
    Date of Patent: September 13, 2005
    Assignee: BMR Research and Development Limited
    Inventors: Louis Michael Crowe, Conor Michael Minogue
  • Method and apparatus for electrical stimulation
    Publication number: 20030093133
    Abstract: Pulsed electrical stimulation is applied to selected tissues via electrodes positioned on and/or in the body. Each electrode is connected to an output (108) of the apparatus. Each output (108) is connected between a high side switch (110) and a low side switch (112) of a switching array. Each stimulation pulse is subdivided into a number of time periods. By operation of the switches (110, 112) each electrode can be selected to operate as an anode or a cathode or neither during any given time period. The spatial and/or time summation of the anode-cathode currents is controlled to selectively to stimulate selected regions and/or types of tissues, typically nerve tissues.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 12, 2002
    Publication date: May 15, 2003
    Inventors: Louis Michael Crowe, Conor Michael Minogue