Patents by Inventor Douglas A. Ceckowski

Douglas A. Ceckowski 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).

  • Systems and methods for storing, retrieving, and manipulating data in medical processing devices
    Patent number: 6542910
    Abstract: A device has processing hardware to carry out a blood processing procedure. A processing control manager resides on the device to monitor status conditions over time during the blood processing procedure. A data interface also resides on the device. The data interface includes a flash memory data storage medium formatted to allocate discrete block file spaces to receive data. Chronologic data or time-specific data are created based upon sensed conditions by a data generator task, which also resides on the device. A file manager task appends chronologic data to an allocated file space to create a chronologic block file, which, when read, provides a time-ordered account of processing activities or hardware conditions. The file manager also operates to block-write time-specific data to another allocated file space, which, when read, creates a snap-shot of processing conditions at a given point in time. The data file structure created on the flash memory medium withstands corruption of data due to power failure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 15, 2001
    Date of Patent: April 1, 2003
    Assignee: Baxter International Inc.
    Inventors: William H Cork, Mark Weber, Douglas Ceckowski, David Morrow
  • Systems and methods for storing, retrieving, and manipulating data in medical processing devices
    Publication number: 20020049726
    Abstract: A device has processing hardware to carry out a—blood processing procedure. A processing control manager resides on the device to monitor status conditions over time during the blood processing procedure. A data interface also resides on the device. The data interface includes a flash memory data storage medium formatted to allocate discrete block file spaces to receive data. Chronologic data or time-specific data are created based upon sensed conditions by a data generator task, which also resides on the device. A file manager task appends chronologic data to an allocated file space to create a chronologic block file, which, when read, provides a time-ordered account of processing activities or hardware conditions. The file manager also operates to block-write time-specific data to another allocated file space, which, when read, creates a snap-shot of processing conditions at a given point in time.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 15, 2001
    Publication date: April 25, 2002
    Applicant: Baxter International, Inc.
    Inventors: William H. Cork, Mark Weber, Douglas Ceckowski, David Morrow
  • Systems and methods for storing, retrieving, and manipulating data in medical processing devices
    Patent number: 6256643
    Abstract: A device has processing hardware to carry out a blood processing procedure. A processing control manager resides on the device to monitor status conditions over time during the blood processing procedure. A data interface also resides on the device. The data interface includes a flash memory data storage medium formatted to allocate discrete block file spaces to receive data. Chronologic data or time-specific data are created based upon sensed conditions by a data generator task, which also resides on the device. A file manager task appends chronologic data to an allocated file space to create a chronologic block file, which, when read, provides a time-ordered account of processing activities or hardware conditions. The file manager also operates to block-write time-specific data to another allocated file space, which, when read, creates a snap-shot of processing conditions at a given point in time. The data file structure created on the flash memory medium withstands corruption of data due to power failure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 10, 1998
    Date of Patent: July 3, 2001
    Assignee: Baxter International Inc.
    Inventors: William H Cork, Mark Weber, Douglas Ceckowski, David Morrow