Patents by Inventor Franklin O. Smith

Franklin O. Smith 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).

  • Publication number: 20120041911
    Abstract: A method for assessing a neuropsychiatric condition (such as, but not limited to, a risk that a subject may attempt to commit suicide or repeat an attempt to commit suicide, a risk that terminally ill patient is not being cared-for or treated according to the patient's true wishes, a risk that a subject may perform or repeat a criminal act and/or a harmful act, a risk of the subject having a psychiatric illness, and/or a risk of a subject feigning a psychiatric illness) may include a plurality of steps. A step may include receiving biomarker data associated from an analysis of the subject's biological sample and a step of receiving thought-marker data obtained pertaining to one or more of the subject's recorded thoughts, spoken words, transcribed speech, and writings. A step may include generating a biomarker score associated with the neuropsychiatric condition from the biomarker data.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 27, 2010
    Publication date: February 16, 2012
    Applicant: CINCINNATI CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL MEDICAL CENTER
    Inventors: John Pestian, Norbert Weidner, Tracy A. Glauser, Jacqueline M. Grupp-Phelan, Franklin O. Smith, Robert A. Kowatch