Patents by Inventor Frédéric Michard

Frédéric Michard 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: 10446902
    Abstract: A transmission and emission assembly for a multibeam antenna and a multibeam antenna are disclosed. In one aspect, the assembly includes a plurality of radiating elements forming a radiating surface, an emission distribution network arranged upstream from the radiating surface and including a plurality of emission ports, a receiving distribution network arranged upstream from the radiating surface and including a plurality of receiving ports, a plurality of low-noise amplifiers and a capability for interconnecting each receiving port to at least one low-noise amplifier. The emission distribution network and the receiving distribution network are separate from one another and are arranged in a same unit separate from the communication module. The receiving distribution network and the radiating elements are thermally separated.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 12, 2018
    Date of Patent: October 15, 2019
    Assignee: Thales
    Inventors: Pierre Bosshard, Cyril Jean Benoit Mangenot, Fréderic Michard
  • Publication number: 20180358681
    Abstract: A transmission and emission assembly for a multibeam antenna and a multibeam antenna are disclosed. In one aspect, the assembly includes a plurality of radiating elements forming a radiating surface, an emission distribution network arranged upstream from the radiating surface and including a plurality of emission ports, a receiving distribution network arranged upstream from the radiating surface and including a plurality of receiving ports, a plurality of low-noise amplifiers and a capability for interconnecting each receiving port to at least one low-noise amplifier. The emission distribution network and the receiving distribution network are separate from one another and are arranged in a same unit separate from the communication module. The receiving distribution network and the radiating elements are thermally separated.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 12, 2018
    Publication date: December 13, 2018
    Inventors: Pierre Bosshard, Cyril Jean Benoit Mangenot, Fréderic Michard
  • Publication number: 20170100082
    Abstract: The disclosure generally relates to a patient monitoring and display system. The system allows a clinician to trigger the occurrence of a clinical event, and record a patient's status following the clinical event. The system calculates and displays a change in a patient's status resulting from the clinical event. The system allows multiple parameters to be tracked and displayed on a single screen. The system can also display various animated organs, such as a heart or a lung, corresponding to an operation of the organs in the patient.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 21, 2016
    Publication date: April 13, 2017
    Applicant: Edwards Lifesciences Corporation
    Inventors: Morgan T. Mckeown, Frederic Michard, Ives De Jonghe, Luchy Roteliuk, John A. Frazier, Erin T. Glines-Foorman, Shane Doorish, Doug Patton
  • Publication number: 20160206252
    Abstract: The disclosure generally relates to a patient monitoring and display system. The system allows a clinician to trigger the occurrence of a clinical event, and record a patient's status following the clinical event. The system calculates and displays a change in a patient's status resulting from the clinical event. The system allows multiple parameters to be tracked and displayed on a single screen. The system can also display various animated organs, such as a heart or a lung, corresponding to an operation of the organs in the patient.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 23, 2013
    Publication date: July 21, 2016
    Applicant: EDWARDS LIFESCIENCES CORPORATION
    Inventors: Morgan McKeown, Frederic Michard, Ives De Jonghe, Luchy Roteliuk, John Frazier, Erin Glines, Shane Doorish, Doug Patton
  • Patent number: 9375159
    Abstract: The invention relates to indicator dilution measurements of a central volume (V1) with a first site of injection (S1) upstream of the central volume (V1) a second site of detection (S2) of the diluted indicator downstream of the central volume (V1), wherein a first additional volume (V2) is defined between the first site (S1) and the central volume (V1) and a first additional branch (B2) is defined between the first site (S1) and the central volume (V1) and wherein a second additional volume (V3) is defined between the central volume (V1) and the second site (S2) and a second additional branch (B3) is defined between the central volume (V1) and the second site (S2) wherein a result of central volumetric parameters are corrected for the first and second additional volumes (V2, V3) and/or for the first and second additional branches (B2, B3).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 15, 2008
    Date of Patent: June 28, 2016
    Assignee: Edwards Lifesciences IPRM AG
    Inventors: Ulf Borg, Reinhold Knoll, Frederic Michard, Ulrich Pfeiffer
  • Publication number: 20150080750
    Abstract: The invention relates to a disposable sensor device (51) for patient monitoring comprising a sensor (52) for providing an electric quantity based on a quantity to be detected, a first signal terminal (54) for providing a tap for the electric quantity, a first supply terminal (53) for supplying the sensor with an electrical supply quantity, a first connector for accommodating the first signal terminal (54) and the first supply terminal (53), a second signal terminal (56) for providing a further tap for the electric quantity, and a second connector for accommodating at least the second signal terminal (56).
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 19, 2014
    Publication date: March 19, 2015
    Applicant: Edwards Lifesciences IPRM AG
    Inventors: Ulrich Pfeiffer, Reinhold Knoll, Tobias Thomamuller, Frederic Michard, Matthias Fahle
  • Patent number: 8920329
    Abstract: The invention relates to a disposable sensor device (51) for patient monitoring comprising a sensor (52) for providing an electric quantity based on a quantity to be detected, a first signal terminal (54) for providing a tap for the electric quantity, a first supply terminal (53) for supplying the sensor with an electrical supply quantity, a first connector for accommodating the first signal terminal (54) and the first supply terminal (53), a second signal terminal (56) for providing a further tap for the electric quantity, and a second connector for accommodating at least the second signal terminal (56).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 19, 2008
    Date of Patent: December 30, 2014
    Assignee: Edwards Lifesciences IPRM AG
    Inventors: Reinhold Knoll, Frederic Michard, Matthias Fahle, Tobias Thomamüller, Ulrich Pfeiffer
  • Patent number: 8608683
    Abstract: A device for infusing of at least one medicament includes at least two actuators configured to cause at least two medicaments to be infused; at least one sensor configured to measure a value of at least two parameters; and a controller configured to control the at least two actuators, wherein the controller is programmed to activate the at least two actuators depending on the values of each of the at least two parameters, and wherein the controller is arranged so as to consider a dependency of the at least two medicaments.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 29, 2008
    Date of Patent: December 17, 2013
    Assignee: UP-Med GmbH
    Inventors: Frederic Michard, Ulrich Pfeiffer, Reinhold Knoll
  • Publication number: 20130324804
    Abstract: The disclosure generally relates to a patient monitoring and display system. The system allows a clinician to trigger the occurrence of a clinical event, and record a patient's status following the clinical event. The system calculates and displays a change in a patient's status resulting from the clinical event. The system allows multiple parameters to be tracked and displayed on a single screen. The system can also display various animated organs, such as a heart or a lung, corresponding to an operation of the organs in the patient.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 23, 2013
    Publication date: December 5, 2013
    Applicant: EDWARDS LIFESCIENCES CORPORATION
    Inventors: Morgan McKeown, Frederic Michard, Ives De Jonghe, Luchy Roteliuk, John Frazier, Erin Glines, Shane Doorish, Doug Patton
  • Publication number: 20130204104
    Abstract: Apparatus for evaluating a mechanically ventilated patient's hemodynamic status, adapted to provide a respiratory variation diagram of a hemodynamic variable, and being capable of deriving the value of a hemodynamic parameter for each mechanical breath cycle as well as an assessment of its suitability for the hemodynamic analysis on basis of the respiratory variation diagram. A method is also provided.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 25, 2012
    Publication date: August 8, 2013
    Applicant: Edwards Lifesciences IPRM AG
    Inventors: Frederic Michard, Reinhold Knoll, Ulrich Pfeiffer
  • Patent number: 8257273
    Abstract: The invention relates to a device for determining cardiopulmonary volumes and flows of a living being. According to the invention, the evaluation unit (14) of a transpulmonary measurement arrangement, preferably having a central-vein catheter and an arterial catheter (11, 12), is set up, in terms of program technology, for the purpose of taking a possible short-circuit current from the right to the left half of the heart (RL shunt) and/or from the left to the right half of the heart (LR shunt) of the living being into consideration, without the use of a right-heart catheter being required in this connection, or any recourse to pulmonary artery measurement values having to take place at all. In this connection, a model is used as the basis, which contains the function y (system response) corresponding to a dilution curve as the convolution of a disruption function I with several terms that contain characteristic times as model parameters.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 3, 2006
    Date of Patent: September 4, 2012
    Assignee: Pulsion Medical Systems SE
    Inventors: Ulrich J. Pfeiffer, Reinhold Knoll, Frédéric Michard
  • Publication number: 20120179051
    Abstract: An apparatus for determining a patient's volemic status can make use of a physiological heart-lung interaction during spontaneous breathing or mechanical ventilation. Further, a computer program for determining the patient's volemic status has instructions for carrying out the steps of generating data of a physiological heart-lung interaction during spontaneous breathing or mechanical ventilation, and determining the patient's volemic status when making use of the data of the physiological heart-lung interaction, when run on a computer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 8, 2011
    Publication date: July 12, 2012
    Applicant: Edwards Lifesciences IPRM AG
    Inventors: Ulrich Pfeiffer, Frederic Michard, Reinhold Knoll
  • Publication number: 20110105911
    Abstract: The invention relates to indicator dilution measurements of a central volume (V1) with a first site of injection (S1) upstream of the central volume (V1) a second site of detection (S2) of the diluted indicator downstream of the central volume (V1), wherein a first additional volume (V2) is defined between the first site (S1) and the central volume (V1) and a first additional branch (B2) is defined between the first site (S1) and the central volume (V1) and wherein a second additional volume (V3) is defined between the central volume (V1) and the second site (S2) and a second additional branch (B3) is defined between the central volume (V1) and the second site (S2) wherein a result of central volumetric parameters are corrected for the first and second additional volumes (V2, V3) and/or for the first and second additional branches (B2, B3).
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 15, 2008
    Publication date: May 5, 2011
    Inventors: Ulf Borg, Reinhold Knoll, Frederic Michard, Ulrich Pfeiffer
  • Publication number: 20100198085
    Abstract: The invention relates to a disposable sensor device (51) for patient monitoring comprising a sensor (52) for providing an electric quantity based on a quantity to be detected, a first signal terminal (54) for providing a tap for the electric quantity, a first supply terminal (53) for supplying the sensor with an electrical supply quantity, a first connector for accommodating the first signal terminal (54) and the first supply terminal (53), a second signal terminal (56) for providing a further tap for the electric quantity, and a second connector for accommodating at least the second signal terminal (56).
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 19, 2008
    Publication date: August 5, 2010
    Inventors: Reinhold Knoll, Frederic Michard, Matthias Fahle, Tobias Thomamuller, Ulrich Pfeiffer
  • Publication number: 20100137828
    Abstract: A device for infusing of at least one medicament includes at least two actuators configured to cause at least two medicaments to be infused; at least one sensor configured to measure a value of at least two parameters; and a controller configured to control the at least two actuators, wherein the controller is programmed to activate the at least two actuators depending on the values of each of the at least two parameters, and wherein the controller is arranged so as to consider a dependency of the at least two medicaments.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 29, 2008
    Publication date: June 3, 2010
    Applicant: UP Management GmbH
    Inventors: Frederic Michard, Ulrich Pfeiffer, Reinhold Knoll
  • Patent number: 7666146
    Abstract: Apparatus, computer system, computer program and storage medium for determining intrathoracic blood volume (ITBV) and other cardio-vascular parameters of a patient by thermodilution measurements. The apparatus includes: temperature influencing means for introducing a traveling temperature deviation to a patient's blood stream, a temperature sensor device for measuring the local temperature of the patient's blood downstream of the temperature influencing means, a computer system adapted to: record local blood temperature measured as a function of time to determine a thermodilution curve, determine global enddiastolic blood volume (GEDV) and intrathoracic thermovolume (ITTV) from the thermodilution curve, determine intrathoracic blood volume (ITBV) as a function of GEDV, ITTV and the airway pressure inside the patient's lungs (P).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 22, 2005
    Date of Patent: February 23, 2010
    Assignee: Pulsion Medical Systems AG
    Inventors: Ulrich J. Pfeiffer, Reinhard Knoll, Frederic Michard
  • Publication number: 20080146945
    Abstract: The invention relates to a device for determining cardiopulmonary volumes and flows of a living being. According to the invention, the evaluation unit (14) of a transpulmonary measurement arrangement, preferably having a central-vein catheter and an arterial catheter (11, 12), is set up, in terms of program technology, for the purpose of taking a possible short-circuit current from the right to the left half of the heart (RL shunt) and/or from the left to the right half of the heart (LR shunt) of the living being into consideration, without the use of a right-heart catheter being required in this connection, or any recourse to pulmonary artery measurement values having to take place at all. In this connection, a model is used as the basis, which contains the function y (system response) corresponding to a dilution curve as the convolution of a disruption function I with several terms that contain characteristic times as model parameters.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 3, 2006
    Publication date: June 19, 2008
    Inventors: Ulrich J. Pfeiffer, Reinhold Knoll, Frederic Michard
  • Publication number: 20080045845
    Abstract: An apparatus for determining a patient's volemic status can make use of a physiological heart-lung interaction during spontaneous breathing or mechanical ventilation. Further, a computer program for determining the patient's volemic status has instructions for carrying out the steps of generating data of a physiological heart-lung interaction during spontaneous breathing or mechanical ventilation, and determining the patient's volemic status when making use of the data of the physiological heart-lung interaction, when run on a computer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 20, 2007
    Publication date: February 21, 2008
    Applicant: IPRM Intellectual Property Rights Management
    Inventors: Ulrich Pfeiffer, Frederic Michard, Reinhold Knoll
  • Publication number: 20070282213
    Abstract: A method and apparatus for assessing extravascular lung water volume (EVLW) of a patient after lung resection is adapted to provide a transpulmonary thermodilution curve, is capable to derive the patient's intrathoracic thermal volume (ITTV) and approximated intrathoracic blood volume (ITBVapprox) from the transpulmonary thermodilution curve, and is capable to determine the extravascular lung water volume (EVLW) by correcting by the degree of lung resection (c), wherein making use of the equation EVLW=f(ITTV, ITBVapprox, c), or EVLW=f(ITTV, GEDV, c).
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 2, 2007
    Publication date: December 6, 2007
    Applicant: UP Management GmbH & Co Med-Systems KG
    Inventors: Frederic Michard, Ulrich Pfeiffer, Reinhold Knoll
  • Publication number: 20070179386
    Abstract: Apparatus for evaluating a mechanically ventilated patient's hemodynamic status, adapted to provide a respiratory variation diagram of a hemodynamic variable, and being capable of deriving the value of a hemodynamic parameter for each mechanical breath cycle as well as an assessment of its suitability for the hemodynamic analysis on basis of the respiratory variation diagram. A method is also provided.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 31, 2007
    Publication date: August 2, 2007
    Applicant: UP Management GmbH & Co Med-Systems KG
    Inventors: Frederic Michard, Reinhold Knoll, Ulrich Pfeiffer