Patents by Inventor Eric Karl

Eric Karl 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).

  • Patent number: 12357237
    Abstract: A regional oximetry system comprises a pod having a pod housing defining a sensor end and an opposite monitor end. A dual sensor connector is in electrical communication with the sensor end of the pod housing. A monitor connector is in electrical communication with the monitor end of the pod housing. An analog board is disposed within the pod housing and is in electrical communications with the dual sensor connector. The analog board receives and digitizes sensor signals from at least one optical sensor plugged into the dual sensor connector. A digital board is disposed within the pod housing and in electrical communications with the analog board and the monitor connector.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 21, 2021
    Date of Patent: July 15, 2025
    Assignee: MASIMO CORPORATION
    Inventors: Ammar Al-Ali, David Dalke, Eric Karl Kinast, Walter M. Weber, Yuying Song, Faisal Kashif, Atiyeh Ghoreyshi, Kevin Forrest
  • Patent number: 12329548
    Abstract: The present disclosure includes a medical monitoring hub as the center of monitoring for a monitored patient. The hub includes configurable medical ports and serial ports for communicating with other medical devices in the patient's proximity. Moreover, the hub communicates with a portable patient monitor. The monitor, when docked with the hub provides display graphics different from when undocked, the display graphics including anatomical information. The hub assembles the often vast amount of electronic medical data, associates it with the monitored patient, and in some embodiments, communicates the data to the patient's medical records.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 12, 2023
    Date of Patent: June 17, 2025
    Assignee: Masimo Corporation
    Inventors: Massi Joe E. Kiani, Bilal Muhsin, Ammar Al-Ali, Anand Sampath, Peter Scott Housel, Eric Karl Kinast
  • Patent number: 12326359
    Abstract: A sensor device having a sensor housing and a printed circuit board coupled to the sensor housing. A light emitting device is coupled to the printed circuit board. The light emitting device has an emitter face defining an emission face area. An aperture plate is coupled to the sensor housing, the aperture plate defines an aperture having an aperture area that is less than the emission face area of the emitter face. The aperture is less than 1 mm from the emitter face wherein the light emitting device is not fixed to the aperture plate. A lens is coupled to the sensor housing, having an optical axis extending through the aperture. The aperture plate is positioned between the lens and the emitter face. Boresighting angle variation across sensor components on a manufacturing line may advantageously be reduced without increased cost associated with active alignment. Irradiance drop-out may also be reduced.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 30, 2022
    Date of Patent: June 10, 2025
    Assignee: Banner Engineering Corp.
    Inventors: John Alyn Stecker, Timothy Stuart Gardner, Eric Karl Lindmark, Begad Gamal Elmelligy
  • Publication number: 20250160644
    Abstract: A system for monitoring one or more physiological parameters of a subject is disclosed. The system can include a dock and an electronic module configured to removably connect to the dock. A physiological sensor can be connected to the dock for monitoring the one or more physiological parameters of the subject.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 17, 2025
    Publication date: May 22, 2025
    Inventors: Ammar Al-Ali, Stephen Scruggs, Richard Priddell, Chad A. DeJong, Eric Karl Kinast, Jung Soo Hwang, Steven Hang
  • Patent number: 12257022
    Abstract: Medical patient monitoring sensor devices including a disposable sensor assembly and a reusable pairing device are disclosed. The disposable sensor assembly can collect patient physiological data and provide power for the reusable pairing device. The reusable pairing device can establish wireless communication with a monitoring device. Once the reusable pairing device receives patient physiological data from the disposable sensor assembly, the reusable pairing device can wirelessly transmit the data to the computing device via the wireless communication.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 4, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 25, 2025
    Assignee: MASIMO CORPORATION
    Inventors: Ammar Al-Ali, Stephen Scruggs, Richard Priddell, Chad A. DeJong, Eric Karl Kinast, Jung Soo Hwang, Steven Hang
  • Publication number: 20250049358
    Abstract: A device for obtaining physiological information of a medical patient and wirelessly transmitting the obtained physiological information to a wireless receiver.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 29, 2024
    Publication date: February 13, 2025
    Inventors: Ammar Al-Ali, Eric Karl Kinast, Bilal Muhsin
  • Publication number: 20240362492
    Abstract: Exemplary systems, methods, and computer-accessible medium are provided that can train a language model for a medical use or performing a medically-related procedure. Thus, exemplary systems, methods, and computer-accessible medium can be provided that can model a reward neural network on one or more physician preferences and train the language model by applying the reward neural network modeled on the physician preference(s) as feedback to guide the language model to learn the physician preference(s). The reward neural network can rely on an artificial intelligent (AI) model as a surrogate reward function for a physician feedback, and can obtain the physician preference(s) implicitly from electronic health records and/or other sources of medical data.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 25, 2024
    Publication date: October 31, 2024
    Inventor: ERIC KARL OERMANN
  • Patent number: 12109022
    Abstract: A device for obtaining physiological information of a medical patient and wirelessly transmitting the obtained physiological information to a wireless receiver.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 21, 2023
    Date of Patent: October 8, 2024
    Assignee: Masimo Corporation
    Inventors: Ammar Al-Ali, Eric Karl Kinast, Bilal Muhsin
  • Publication number: 20240265174
    Abstract: Exemplary systems, methods, and computer-accessible medium are provided that that can leverage a large language model (LLM) to determine a prediction of a population level response to presented information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 6, 2024
    Publication date: August 8, 2024
    Inventor: ERIC KARL OERMANN
  • Publication number: 20240216004
    Abstract: A uterine fibroid tissue removal device includes an inner tube disposed within an outer tube and configured to be translated and rotated relative to the outer tube, and a separately formed unitary distal tip member attached to a distal end of the inner tube, such that the distal tip member translates and rotates relative to the outer tube along with the inner tube, wherein a distal facing open cutting end of the distal tip member in fluid communication with an axial lumen of the distal tip member translates across a tissue resection window in a sidewall of the outer tube so as to sever tissue extending therethrough, the distal tip member axial lumen being in fluid communication with an axial lumen of the inner tube, wherein an outer diameter of the distal tip member is greater than an outer diameter of the inner tube.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 10, 2024
    Publication date: July 4, 2024
    Applicant: HOLOGIC, INC.
    Inventors: Roy Hewitt Sullivan, Albert Chun-Chi Chin, Eric Karl Litscher, William Lucas Churchill, Ronald David Adams, William Harwick Gruber, David Jacobs
  • Patent number: 11957474
    Abstract: An electrocardiogram device configured to transmit at least one signal responsive to a wearer's cardiac electrical activity can include a disposable portion and a reusable portion configured to mechanically and electrically mate with each other. The disposable portion can include a base having at least one mechanical connector portion, a plurality of cables and corresponding external ECG electrodes, and a first plurality of electrical connectors associated with the plurality of cables. The reusable portion can include a cover having at least one mechanical connector portion, a second plurality of electrical connectors configured to electrically connect with the first plurality of electrical connectors of the disposable portion, and an output connector port configured to transmit at least one signal responsive to one or more signals outputted by the external ECG electrodes of the disposable portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 16, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 16, 2024
    Assignee: Masimo Corporation
    Inventors: Ammar Al-Ali, Eric Karl Kinast, Austin Kretz Pike
  • Publication number: 20240081698
    Abstract: A device for obtaining physiological information of a medical patient and wirelessly transmitting the obtained physiological information to a wireless receiver.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 21, 2023
    Publication date: March 14, 2024
    Inventors: Ammar Al-Ali, Eric Karl Kinast, Bilal Muhsin
  • Patent number: 11918353
    Abstract: A device for obtaining physiological information of a medical patient and wirelessly transmitting the obtained physiological information to a wireless receiver.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 30, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 5, 2024
    Assignee: Masimo Corporation
    Inventors: Ammar Al-Ali, Eric Karl Kinast, Bilal Muhsin
  • Patent number: 11903602
    Abstract: A uterine fibroid tissue removal device includes an inner tube disposed within an outer tube and configured to be translated and rotated relative to the outer tube, and a separately formed unitary distal tip member attached to a distal end of the inner tube, such that the distal tip member translates and rotates relative to the outer tube along with the inner tube, wherein a distal facing open cutting end of the distal tip member in fluid communication with an axial lumen of the distal tip member translates across a tissue resection window in a sidewall of the outer tube so as to sever tissue extending therethrough, the distal tip member axial lumen being in fluid communication with an axial lumen of the inner tube, wherein an outer diameter of the distal tip member is greater than an outer diameter of the inner tube.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 25, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 20, 2024
    Assignee: Hologic, Inc.
    Inventors: Roy Hewitt Sullivan, Albert Chun-Chi Chin, Eric Karl Litscher, William Lucas Churchill, Ronald David Adams, William Harwick Gruber, David Jacobs
  • Publication number: 20230414181
    Abstract: The present disclosure includes a medical monitoring hub as the center of monitoring for a monitored patient. The hub includes configurable medical ports and serial ports for communicating with other medical devices in the patient's proximity. Moreover, the hub communicates with a portable patient monitor. The monitor, when docked with the hub provides display graphics different from when undocked, the display graphics including anatomical information. The hub assembles the often vast amount of electronic medical data, associates it with the monitored patient, and in some embodiments, communicates the data to the patient's medical records.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 12, 2023
    Publication date: December 28, 2023
    Inventors: Massi Joe E. Kiani, Bilal Muhsin, Ammar Al-Ali, Anand Sampath, Peter Scott Housel, Eric Karl Kinast
  • Patent number: 11801090
    Abstract: A medical device may include an expandable energy delivery array reciprocally movable between a first configuration and a second configuration. The expandable energy delivery array may include a first assembly having a first proximal end piece, a first distal end piece, and one or more first energy transfer elements extending between the first proximal and first distal end pieces, and a second assembly having a second proximal end piece, a second distal end piece, and one or more second energy transfer elements extending between the second proximal and second distal end pieces. The second proximal end piece may be proximal to the first proximal end piece and the second distal end piece may be distal to the first distal end piece.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 10, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 31, 2023
    Assignee: Boston Scientific Scimed, Inc.
    Inventors: Eric Karl Litscher, Joseph A. Levendusky, Man Minh Nguyen, Paul Mannion, TJ Byrne
  • Patent number: 11786183
    Abstract: The present disclosure includes a medical monitoring hub as the center of monitoring for a monitored patient. The hub includes configurable medical ports and serial ports for communicating with other medical devices in the patient's proximity. Moreover, the hub communicates with a portable patient monitor. The monitor, when docked with the hub provides display graphics different from when undocked, the display graphics including anatomical information. The hub assembles the often vast amount of electronic medical data, associates it with the monitored patient, and in some embodiments, communicates the data to the patient's medical records.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 20, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 17, 2023
    Assignee: Masimo Corporation
    Inventors: Massi Joe E. Kiani, Bilal Muhsin, Ammar Al-Ali, Anand Sampath, Peter Scott Housel, Eric Karl Kinast
  • Publication number: 20230209797
    Abstract: Integrated circuit (IC) static random-access memory (SRAM) comprising colinear pass-gate transistors and pull-down transistors having different nanoribbon widths. A narrower ribbon width within the pass-gate transistor, relative to the pull-down transistor, may reduce read instability of a bit-cell, and/or reduce overhead associated with read assist circuitry coupled to the bit-cell. In some examples, a transition between narrower and width ribbon widths is symmetrical about a centerline shared by ribbons of both the access and pull-down transistors. In some examples, the ribbon width transition is positioned within an impurity-doped semiconductor region shared by the access and pull-down transistors and may be located under a terminal contact metallization. In some examples, the impurity-doped semiconductor regions surrounding the ribbons of differing width also have differing widths.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 23, 2021
    Publication date: June 29, 2023
    Applicant: Intel Corporation
    Inventors: Clifford Ong, Leonard Guler, Smita Shridharan, Zheng Guo, Eric Karl, Tahir Ghani
  • Publication number: 20230009802
    Abstract: A sensor device having a sensor housing and a printed circuit board coupled to the sensor housing. A light emitting device is coupled to the printed circuit board. The light emitting device has an emitter face defining an emission face area. An aperture plate is coupled to the sensor housing, the aperture plate defines an aperture having an aperture area that is less than the emission face area of the emitter face. The aperture is less than 1 mm from the emitter face wherein the light emitting device is not fixed to the aperture plate. A lens is coupled to the sensor housing, having an optical axis extending through the aperture. The aperture plate is positioned between the lens and the emitter face. Boresighting angle variation across sensor components on a manufacturing line may advantageously be reduced without increased cost associated with active alignment. Irradiance drop-out may also be reduced.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 30, 2022
    Publication date: January 12, 2023
    Inventors: John Alyn Stecker, Timothy Stuart Gardner, Eric Karl Lindmark, Begad Gamal Elmelligy
  • Publication number: 20220330842
    Abstract: A system for non-invasively determining an indication of an individual's blood pressure is described. In certain embodiments, the system calculates pulse wave transit time using two acoustic sensors. The system can include a first acoustic sensor configured to monitor heart sounds of the patient corresponding to ventricular systole and diastole and a second acoustic sensor configured to monitor arterial pulse sounds at an arterial location remote from the heart. The system can advantageously calculate a arterial pulse wave transit time (PWTT) that does not include the pre-ejection period time delay. In certain embodiments, the system further includes a processor that calculates the arterial PWTT obtained from the acoustic sensors. The system can use this arterial PWTT to determine whether to trigger an occlusive cuff measurement.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 28, 2022
    Publication date: October 20, 2022
    Inventors: Eric Karl Kinast, Valery G. Telfort