Patents by Inventor Douglas W. Blakely

Douglas W. Blakely 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).

  • Substitute-heart control apparatus
    Patent number: 5980571
    Abstract: A substitute-heart control apparatus for controlling a substitute heart provided in a living body, including an information obtaining device which non-invasively obtains, from the living body, physical information relating to blood circulation in the living body, and a control device which supplies, to the substitute heart, a control signal to control a cardiac output that is a volume of blood outputted from the substitute heart per unit time, based on the physical information obtained by the information obtaining device, according to a predetermined relationship between cardiac output and physical information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 11, 1997
    Date of Patent: November 9, 1999
    Assignee: Colin Corporation
    Inventors: Takashi Nomura, Douglas W. Blakely, Setsuo Takatani, Keizo Kawaguchi