Patents by Inventor Ethan Petersen
Ethan Petersen 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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Patent number: 8863540Abstract: An HVAC system to be installed in a vehicle comprises a battery management controller. The battery management controller comprises at least one connection for electrically coupling a first power source with a first voltage; at least one connection for electrically coupling a second power source with a second voltage; and a first memory storage device configured to record data collected by the battery management controller. The battery management controller is configured to run a temperature control system and to supply power to the temperature control system from a combination of the first and second power sources with a combined voltage, and wherein the second power source is disconnected when the combined voltage drops below a predetermined amount.Type: GrantFiled: March 18, 2009Date of Patent: October 21, 2014Assignee: Crosspoint Solutions, LLCInventors: Gerald Allen Alston, Ethan Petersen
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Publication number: 20140257060Abstract: Embodiments described herein may include systems and methods for monitoring physiological parameters of a patient. Specifically, embodiments disclose the use of a generally self-contained pulse oximeter that is small and lightweight, such that it may be comfortably affixed to a patient to provide physiological data pertaining to the patient. Embodiments also provide methods of using and manufacturing a pulse oximetry patch.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 19, 2014Publication date: September 11, 2014Inventors: Ethan Petersen, Mark Perez
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Patent number: 8827890Abstract: Apparatuses and methods relating to interfacing and controlling external batteries are described. In one embodiment, an external battery is integrated with a touch screen display. In one embodiment, the external battery provides an infrared communication link with a detachable device or system controller. In one embodiment, the external battery touch screen interface provides data received from a detachable device or system controller.Type: GrantFiled: May 14, 2013Date of Patent: September 9, 2014Assignee: Thoratec CorporationInventors: Eric Lee, Ethan Petersen, Joseph Stark, Ian McCutcheon, Steve Reichenbach
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Patent number: 8750954Abstract: Embodiments described herein may include systems and methods for monitoring physiological parameters of a patient. Specifically, embodiments disclose the use of a generally self-contained pulse oximeter that is small and lightweight, such that it may be comfortably affixed to a patient to provide physiological data pertaining to the patient. Embodiments also provide methods of using and manufacturing a pulse oximetry patch.Type: GrantFiled: March 31, 2009Date of Patent: June 10, 2014Assignee: Covidien LPInventors: Ethan Petersen, Mark Perez
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Patent number: 8708900Abstract: In various embodiments, there is provided an LED drive circuit and a method for using the same. Specifically, the present disclosure is directed to an LED drive circuit for pulse oximeters. In an embodiment, the LED drive circuit includes a current mirror configured to provide drive current to an LED of a sensor. Additionally, the method includes providing current to first and second current mirrors, wherein the first and second current mirrors are configured to control first and second light sources.Type: GrantFiled: January 25, 2013Date of Patent: April 29, 2014Assignee: Covidien LPInventor: Ethan Petersen
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Publication number: 20140028110Abstract: Systems and designs for tuning a wireless power transfer system are provided, which may include any number of features. In one embodiment, a wireless power transfer system can be configured such that resonant frequencies of the system move towards an operating frequency of the system as a coupling coefficient between the transmit and receive resonators becomes smaller. In another embodiment, a receive controller can be configured to control a current delivered to a DC load by comparing an actual current at the DC load to a current requested by the DC load and adjusting an angle or a magnitude of a voltage at the DC load to match the requested current. In another embodiment, a rectifier circuit can act as a controlled voltage source and be configured to tune resonant frequencies between the transmit resonator and the receive resonator. Methods of use are also provided.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 29, 2013Publication date: January 30, 2014Inventors: Ethan Petersen, John Freddy Hansen
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Patent number: 8603772Abstract: This invention provides a novel methods and devices for measurement of particle concentration or changes in particle concentration over a wide linear range. The invention comprises one or more radiation sources and one or more detectors contained in a housing which is interfaced to a medium containing particulate matter. The one or more radiation sources are directed into the medium, scattered or transmitted by the particulate matter, and then some portion of the radiation is detected by the one or more detectors. Methods for confining the measurement to a specific volume within the medium are described. Algorithms are provided for combining the signals generated by multiple source-detector pairs in a manner that results in a wide linear range of response to changes in particle concentration. In one embodiment the sensor provides non-invasive measurements of biomass in a bioreactor. In another embodiment an immersible probe design is described, which may be suited for one-time use.Type: GrantFiled: July 28, 2008Date of Patent: December 10, 2013Assignee: Bug Lab LLCInventors: Martin P. Debreczeny, Jaime Romero, Ethan Petersen
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Publication number: 20130096364Abstract: A blood pump includes a hub having an axis of rotation and a generally cylindrical shape. The hub has an upstream end region, a central region, and a downstream end region, and the hub includes a magnetic material. Blades that are disposed on the downstream end region of the hub extend downstream of the hub.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 12, 2012Publication date: April 18, 2013Inventors: Steven H. Reichenbach, Pieter W.C.J. le Blanc, Yi-Ren Woo, David Gary Eldridge, Stephen G. Briana, William V. Hodges, Ethan Petersen, Peter Andriola
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Patent number: 8366613Abstract: In various embodiments, there is provided an LED drive circuit and a method for using the same. Specifically, the present disclosure is directed to an LED drive circuit for pulse oximeters. In an embodiment, the LED drive circuit includes a current mirror configured to provide drive current to an LED of a sensor. Additionally, the method includes providing current to first and second current mirrors, wherein the first and second current mirrors are configured to control first and second light sources.Type: GrantFiled: December 24, 2008Date of Patent: February 5, 2013Assignee: Covidien LPInventor: Ethan Petersen
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Publication number: 20120316410Abstract: There is provided a system and method for canceling shunted light. The method includes transmitting electromagnetic radiation at tissue of interest and generating a signal representative of detected electromagnetic radiation. A portion of the generated signal representing shunted light is canceled from the generated signal and the remaining portion of the generated signal is used to compute physiological parameters.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 20, 2012Publication date: December 13, 2012Applicant: Nellcor Puritan Bennett LLCInventor: Ethan Petersen
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Patent number: 8315684Abstract: A pulse oximeter method and apparatus which provides (1) a notch filter at a distance between a modulation frequency and a common multiple of commonly used power line frequencies (50, 60, 100 and 120) and also (2) a demodulation frequency greater than a highest pulse rate of a person and lower than any harmonic of 50, 60, 100 or 120 Hz, to filter ambient light interference, while choosing an optimum demodulation frequency that avoids interference from the notch filter or from harmonics of the line interference. Also, ambient light for any low frequency interference, such as power line interference, is measured both before and after each of the light emitter wavelengths and the average of the ambient light is then subtracted from the detected signal.Type: GrantFiled: July 14, 2008Date of Patent: November 20, 2012Assignee: Covidien LPInventors: Ethan Petersen, William Shea, Bradford B. Chew
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Publication number: 20120245441Abstract: A method for processing an analog composite signal in a system has the steps of receiving a composite signal with at least one first signal component and at least one interfering signal component; filtering the composite signal with a filter having a transfer function H(s); sampling the filtered composite signal in periodic intervals wherein each periodic interval has n samples; forming a matrix equation representing the composite signal wherein the matrix equation has a signal vector with the at least first one signal component and the at least one interfering signal component and a matrix comprising weighted coefficients; solving the matrix equation to determine the at least one signal component; outputting the at least one signal component.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 4, 2012Publication date: September 27, 2012Applicant: Nellcor Puritan Bennett LLCInventor: Ethan Petersen
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Patent number: 8265724Abstract: There is provided a system and method for canceling shunted light. The method includes transmitting electromagnetic radiation at tissue of interest and generating a signal representative of detected electromagnetic radiation. A portion of the generated signal representing shunted light is canceled from the generated signal and the remaining portion of the generated signal is used to compute physiological parameters.Type: GrantFiled: March 9, 2007Date of Patent: September 11, 2012Assignee: Nellcor Puritan Bennett LLCInventor: Ethan Petersen
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Patent number: 8204567Abstract: A method for processing an analog composite signal in a system has the steps of receiving a composite signal with at least one first signal component and at least one interfering signal component; filtering the composite signal with a filter having a transfer function H(s); sampling the filtered composite signal in periodic intervals wherein each periodic interval has n samples; forming a matrix equation representing the composite signal wherein the matrix equation has a signal vector with the at least first one signal component and the at least one interfering signal component and a matrix comprising weighted coefficients; solving the matrix equation to determine the at least one signal component; outputting the at least one signal component.Type: GrantFiled: December 13, 2007Date of Patent: June 19, 2012Assignee: Nellcor Puritan Bennett LLCInventor: Ethan Petersen
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Patent number: 8195262Abstract: A light emitter drive circuit for an oximeter which utilizes a single inductor for driving multiple light emitters. The inductor is connected to a switching circuit to multiple energy storage circuits, such as capacitors. These are alternately charged up, using the same inductor. Subsequently, the capacitors are alternatively discharged for their corresponding light emitters through the same inductor. Also, the magnetic susceptibility of the LED drive circuit is reduced by using magnetic flux canceling in the inductor. In one embodiment, a toroidal inductor is used with geometric symmetry and its magnetic flux. In other embodiment, a dual core closed bobbin shielded inductor is used.Type: GrantFiled: July 26, 2006Date of Patent: June 5, 2012Assignee: Nellcor Puritan Bennett LLCInventors: Bradford B. Chew, Ethan Petersen, William Shea
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Patent number: 7893559Abstract: A power distribution system comprises a DC bus supplied by an electrical generator and a resistive load connected to the DC bus. A switching device connects to the DC bus and the load and is configured to periodically open the circuit between the resistive load and the DC bus for a reoccurring period of time. The switching device senses the load on the DC bus and changes the length of the period of time based on the sensed voltage.Type: GrantFiled: February 25, 2009Date of Patent: February 22, 2011Assignee: Glacier Bay, Inc.Inventors: Ethan Petersen, Justin Dobbs, Elmar Grom
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Publication number: 20110028814Abstract: Embodiments described herein may include systems and methods for monitoring physiological parameters of a patient. Specifically, embodiments disclose the use of a generally self-contained pulse oximeter that is small and lightweight, such that it may be comfortably affixed to a patient to provide physiological data pertaining to the patient. Embodiments also provide methods of using and manufacturing a pulse oximetry patch.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 31, 2009Publication date: February 3, 2011Applicant: Nellcor Puritan Bennett LLCInventors: Ethan PETERSEN, Mark PEREZ
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Publication number: 20100236769Abstract: A climate control system is configured to provide at least one of heating and cooling of air in an occupied space of a vehicle. The system includes a thermal energy storage device configured to receive heat from a waste heat source in the vehicle and a heat exchanger coupled between the thermal energy storage device and the occupied space of the vehicle by a coolant loop. The second heat exchanger is configured to transfer heat from at least one of the thermal energy storage device to the occupied space of the vehicle and the occupied space in the vehicle to the thermal energy storage device.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 17, 2010Publication date: September 23, 2010Inventors: Dave Lyons, Paul Knauer, Justin Dobbs, Ethan Petersen
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Publication number: 20090247849Abstract: Embodiments disclosed herein may include systems and methods for reducing power consumption of a pulse oximeter. The disclosure describes method for measuring oxygen saturation of a patient's blood with a pulse oximeter that switches between a high power mode of operation and one or more low power modes of operation based at least in part upon the data obtained from the patient or otherwise generated by the pulse oximeter. In one embodiment, the disclosure describes a operating a pulse oximeter in a high power mode, the pulse oximeter using a sensor to generate data indicative of the oxygen saturation of the patient's blood at a first resolution and switching the pulse oximeter to a low power mode upon detection of data indicative of a non-critical situation. The low power mode may be selected from a set of available low power modes based at least in part upon the data generated by the pulse oximeter.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 24, 2009Publication date: October 1, 2009Applicant: Nellcor Puritan Bennett LLCInventors: Ian McCutcheon, Scott Amundson, Ethan Petersen
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Publication number: 20090229288Abstract: An HVAC system to be installed in a vehicle comprises a battery management controller. The battery management controller comprises at least one connection for electrically coupling a first power source with a first voltage; at least one connection for electrically coupling a second power source with a second voltage; and a first memory storage device configured to record data collected by the battery management controller. The battery management controller is configured to run a temperature control system and to supply power to the temperature control system from a combination of the first and second power sources with a combined voltage, and wherein the second power source is disconnected when the combined voltage drops below a predetermined amount.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 18, 2009Publication date: September 17, 2009Inventors: Gerald Allen Alston, Ethan Petersen