Patents by Inventor Gary Freeman

Gary Freeman 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: 12125402
    Abstract: A system for improving performance of chest compressions includes at least one mobile computing device, an accelerometer configured to measure a vertical displacement of a user's hands to determine information relating to rate and depth of chest compressions, and a processor; and a computer device configured to send information to and receive information from the mobile computing device(s). The system associates the information relating to the rate and depth of the chest compressions with the user; sends the information to the computer device; analyzes the information to determine a proficiency level of the user; compares the proficiency level of the user to a proficiency standard required to be certified in life saving activities; and provides an indication of whether the user of the mobile computing device is ready for certification if the proficiency level of the user meets the proficiency standard. Also, a method for certification is provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 27, 2018
    Date of Patent: October 22, 2024
    Assignee: ZOLL Medical Corporation
    Inventors: David Barash, Mark Totman, Gary A. Freeman, Timothy Sean McGough
  • Patent number: 12109169
    Abstract: An external defibrillator system for assisting manual delivery of chest compressions and ventilations to a patient by a rescuer as cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) includes a speaker, and a processor, memory, and associated circuitry coupled to the speaker. The processor is configured to initiate prompting for the chest compressions and the ventilations manually delivered to the patient by the rescuer as CPR, control the speaker to generate first auditory cues for the chest compressions, and control the speaker to generate second auditory cues for the ventilations with a different sound than the first auditory cues for the chest compressions. The first auditory cues and the second auditory cues assist the rescuer in timing the delivery of the chest compressions and the ventilations.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 14, 2022
    Date of Patent: October 8, 2024
    Assignee: ZOLL Medical Corporation
    Inventors: Gary A Freeman, Daniel M Lisogurski
  • Patent number: 12102590
    Abstract: A medical device system for providing sensor data capture includes a medical device that may include one or more removably coupled sensor hubs and that includes a display to provide sensor data and at least one data interface (DI) port that may be a sensor-agnostic DI (SA-DI) port and a data transfer cable that may be compatible with the sensor-agnostic DI port and includes a first electromechanical connector configured to detachably couple to the SA-DI port and a second electromechanical connector configured to couple to the sensor and that includes a cable memory and processor configured to execute stored software to format sensor data according to a protocol of the SA-DI port, an authentication circuit, and a cable isolation device to limit patient leakage current flow from the medical device to the sensor and to electrically isolate the authentication circuit from the cable processor and the cable memory.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 25, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 1, 2024
    Assignee: ZOLL Medical Corporation
    Inventors: Dan E Goldman, Suzanne Crowell, Frederick K Newey, Allan S Baucom, Gary A Freeman
  • Patent number: 12097167
    Abstract: A system for managing treatment of a person in need of emergency assistance is provided. The system includes at least one camera configured to be mounted to a person in need of medical assistance. The system also includes an image processing device, which can be configured to receive images captured by the at least one camera and to process the images to generate a representation of a rescue scene surrounding the person. The system further includes an analysis device. The analysis device can be configured to determine a characteristic associated with a resuscitation activity based on analysis of the representation of the rescue scene generated by the image processing device. A computer-implemented method for managing treatment of a person in need of emergency assistance is also provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 24, 2023
    Date of Patent: September 24, 2024
    Assignee: ZOLL Medical Corporation
    Inventor: Gary A. Freeman
  • Patent number: 12100503
    Abstract: A system for providing a visual summary of a condition of a patient when traumatic brain injury (TBI) is suspected or diagnosed includes at least one patient condition sensor configured to sense data representative of a patient condition parameter of interest for a TBI patient; at least one airflow sensor configured to sense data representative of ventilations provided to the patient; at least one visual display for providing the visual summary to a user; and at least one controller. The at least one controller is configured to cause the visual display to provide the visual summary. The visual summary can include at least one visual representation of at least one patient condition parameter for each time interval of a plurality of time intervals, at least one visual representation of ventilation information, and a visual indication of when at least one patient condition parameter is outside of a target range.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 1, 2023
    Date of Patent: September 24, 2024
    Assignee: ZOLL Medical Corporation
    Inventors: Richard A. Packer, Gary A. Freeman, Annemarie Silver
  • Publication number: 20240312635
    Abstract: A medical device for assessing clinical patient deterioration in an in-patient hospital environment is provided. The medical device includes a processor and sensors that couple externally to a skin of the patient to acquire electrocardiogram (ECG) and other physiologic signals. The processor is configured to receive a medical history of the patient; generate physiologic data, including ECG data, over a period of time based on one or more physiologic signals; and execute a risk assessment process associated with a clinical condition of the patient. The risk assessment process analyzes the physiologic data and the medical history of the patient to generate a risk estimate of deterioration of the patient's clinical condition.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 13, 2024
    Publication date: September 19, 2024
    Inventors: Gary A. Freeman, Christopher L. Kaufman
  • Patent number: 12083350
    Abstract: A patient-coupled resuscitation device for use with a plurality of medical devices is provided. The resuscitation device includes a portion configured to provide treatment, a connector configured to connect the resuscitation device to one of a first medical device and a second medical device, and a housing including a memory and associated circuitry. The memory and associated circuitry is configured to store a device identifier to identify the resuscitation device; receive medical treatment information from the first medical device, the medical treatment information including at least one of: patient physiological data, patient characteristic data, and rescuer performance data; receive timing information of the medical treatment information from the first medical device; record the medical treatment information and the timing information; and transfer, upon detecting a connection to the second medical device, the medical treatment information and the timing information to the second medical device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 7, 2023
    Date of Patent: September 10, 2024
    Assignee: ZOLL Medical Corporation
    Inventors: Jochen H. Hoelscher, Paolo Giacometti, Mohamed Abdelaziz, Annemarie E. Silver, Gary A. Freeman
  • Publication number: 20240293634
    Abstract: A medical system for assisting with an intubation procedure for a patient. The system comprising airflow sensors configured to obtain data indicative of airflow in the patient's airway and physiological sensors configured to obtain information regarding airflow in the patient's lungs. The system further including a monitoring device communicatively coupled to the airflow sensors and the physiological sensors. The patient monitoring device comprising at least one processor coupled to memory and configured to: provide a user interface on a display and assist the rescuer in determining proper placement of an endotracheal tube, receive the data indicative of the airflow in the patient's airway, receive the physiological information regarding the airflow in the patient's lungs, and determine whether the tube is properly placed based on the received physiological information, and present an output of the determination of whether the ET tube was properly placed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 5, 2024
    Publication date: September 5, 2024
    Inventors: Annemarie E. Silver, Gary A. Freeman, George Beck, Guy R. Johnson, Ulrich R. Herken, Wayne F. Stanley, Shin-Luen Chai
  • Patent number: 12076292
    Abstract: Systems and methods related to the field of cardiac resuscitation, and in particular to devices for assisting rescuers in performing cardio-pulmonary resuscitation (CPR) are described herein. The system includes a chest compression device having force sensing capabilities, for providing feedback in enhancing the quality of acute care. The force sensor(s) may exhibit varying resolutions over different dynamic force ranges, for example, to provide information helpful to the resuscitative treatment. Chest compression devices that are able to sense force may be able to assist a system in providing accurate chest compression depth and rate information, as well as assess the amount of work exerted by one or more rescuers during the course of resuscitation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 28, 2018
    Date of Patent: September 3, 2024
    Assignee: ZOLL Medical Corporation
    Inventors: Paolo Giacometti, Gideon Butler, Frederick J. Geheb, Gary A Freeman
  • Patent number: 12080391
    Abstract: A patient data charting system for automated data capture by an electronic patient care record (ePCR) generated during a patient encounter with emergency medical services (EMS) includes a local computing device including a processor, and a memory storing an ePCR including ePCR data fields, and a user interface device communicatively coupled to the local computing device and including a microphone and speaker, wherein the microphone may be configured to capture spoken patient encounter information, wherein the processor may be configured to receive the spoken patient encounter information as text information from a speech-to-text conversion application, determine at least one ePCR data field value based on the text information, populate at least one ePCR data field with the at least one ePCR data field value, generate caregiver prompts based on the at least one ePCR data field value, and provide the audible caregiver prompts to the caregiver via the speaker.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 6, 2021
    Date of Patent: September 3, 2024
    Assignee: ZOLL Medical Corporation
    Inventors: Alexander N. Moghadam, Gary A. Freeman, Keenan S. Early, Angela L. Baca DeGarie, Peter G. Goutmann, Allyn E. Scott, John R. Whannel
  • Patent number: 12070292
    Abstract: An ambulatory medical device is provided. The ambulatory medical device includes at least one sensor configured to acquire physiological data of a patient, at least one network interface and at least one processor coupled to the at least one sensor and the at least one network interface. The at least one processor is configured to detect, via the at least one network interface, a medical device, to establish a secure communication session with the medical device via the at least one network interface, to detect a data capacity of the secure communication session, to identify a category of patient data associated with the data capacity, and to transmit patient data of the category to the medical device via the secure communication session.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 20, 2022
    Date of Patent: August 27, 2024
    Assignee: ZOLL Medical Corporation
    Inventors: Gary A. Freeman, Suzanne Crowell, Shane S. Volpe
  • Patent number: 12073928
    Abstract: An example of a system for review of clinical data includes a medical device configured to receive patient data signals from patient interface devices coupled to the medical device, and an auxiliary device configured to communicatively couple to the medical device via a communication channel and including an output device, a memory, a communication interface, and a processor configured to establish the communication channel, estimate a transmission age for the patient data, receive the patient data from the medical device via the communication channel, determine a patient data age based on at least one of the transmission age and a playback selection age, select a patient data age threshold based on a patient data context, compare the patient data age to the patient data age threshold to determine a patient data age indication, and provide the patient data and the patient data age indication at the output device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 19, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 27, 2024
    Assignee: ZOLL Medical Corporation
    Inventors: Gary A. Freeman, Timothy F. Stever, C. Shane Reid
  • Publication number: 20240277567
    Abstract: A sensing device is provided for use in ventilation treatment, including a thermal mass flow sensor for measurement of gas flow inside of a gas flow conduit of the device and at least one pressure sensor for measurement of the pressure inside of the conduit. The sensing device may include at least one flow conditioner to condition of the flow of the gas inside of the conduit. The device may include an absolute pressure sensor for measurement of the pressure outside of the conduit (e.g., the ambient pressure). Systems and methods are provided that include a sensing device, or use thereof, in determining or presenting patient or treatment data or feedback, such as to a care provider. Systems and methods are provided that include determining patient airway gas flow and pressure waveforms, and that analyze morphological features of the waveforms to determine conditions of the patient or of treatment.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 16, 2024
    Publication date: August 22, 2024
    Inventors: Lisa M. Campana, Paolo Giacometti, Gary A. Freeman, George Beck, Dorian LeCroy
  • Patent number: 12064218
    Abstract: A feedback device for an acute care provider includes: at least one motion sensor; a haptic output component for providing feedback having a varying haptic pattern to the acute care provider regarding performance of a resuscitation activity; and a controller. The controller can be configured to receive and process a signal representative of performance of the resuscitation activity from the at least one motion sensor, compare the acute care provider's performance of the resuscitation activity to a target performance of the resuscitation activity, and cause the haptic output component to provide haptic feedback to the acute care provider by changing the haptic pattern based, at least in part, on the signal from the at least one motion sensor and the comparison of the acute care provider's performance to the target performance of the resuscitation activity. The device can be adapted to be wrist-worn by the acute care provider.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 1, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 20, 2024
    Assignee: ZOLL Medical Corporation
    Inventors: Gary A. Freeman, Michael Buonadonna, Guy R. Johnson, Justin R. Carroll, Annemarie Silver, Frederick J. Geheb, John C. Amann
  • Patent number: 12064391
    Abstract: An external defibrillator system includes one or more compression sensors; one or more physiological sensors; and at least one processor. The at least one processor is configured to: receive and process chest compression signals and physiological signals from the sensors, determine values for chest compression depth and/or chest compression rate based on the received chest compression signals, determine a trend of at least one physiological parameter over a period comprising multiple chest compressions based on the received physiological signals, adjust a target chest compression depth and/or target chest compression rate based on the determined trend of the at least one physiological parameter, compare the determined values for chest compression depth and/or chest compression rate to the adjusted target compression depth and/or the adjusted target compression rate, and provide feedback about the quality of chest compressions performed on the patient.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 15, 2022
    Date of Patent: August 20, 2024
    Assignee: ZOLL Medical Corporation
    Inventors: Guy R. Johnson, Annemarie Silver, Gary A. Freeman
  • Publication number: 20240252047
    Abstract: A medical device for review of clinical data in a playback mode is described. The medical device includes at least one output device comprising at least one display screen, at least one memory, and at least one processor coupled to the at least one memory and the at least one output device, the at least one processor configured to receive signals indicative of patient data from one or more patient interface devices communicatively coupled to the medical device, control the at least one display screen to provide a first visual representation of the patient data as an operational interface, and selectively display a playback interface at the at least one display screen wherein the playback interface enables user interactive review of the patient data based on a second visual representation of the patient data.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 5, 2024
    Publication date: August 1, 2024
    Inventors: Gary A. Freeman, Annemarie E. Silver, Timothy F. Stever
  • Publication number: 20240257937
    Abstract: Systems and methods related to the field of cardiac resuscitation, and in particular to devices for assisting rescuers in performing cardio-pulmonary resuscitation (CPR).
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 3, 2023
    Publication date: August 1, 2024
    Inventors: Qing Tan, Gary A. Freeman, Frederick J. Geheb, Martin E. Bures, Annemarie E. Silver
  • Publication number: 20240245296
    Abstract: A system for managing and distributing patient reports regarding medical devices to end users includes at least one processor configured to perform instructions to receive, from at least one therapeutic medical device, first physiological information relating to at least one therapeutic medical device patient and receive, from at least one monitoring medical device, second physiological information relating to at least one monitoring medical device patient. The at least one processor is also configured to perform instructions to process the first physiological information and the second physiological information, generate a plurality of patient reports from the processed first physiological information and from the processed second physiological information, receive a selection from an end user via an end user terminal, and provide at least one patient report of the plurality of patient reports to the end user terminal based on the received selection.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 1, 2024
    Publication date: July 25, 2024
    Inventors: Jason T. Whiting, Gary A. Freeman, Thomas E. Kaib
  • Publication number: 20240245577
    Abstract: A device for assisting a caregiver in delivering cardiac resuscitation to a patient, the device comprising a user interface configured to deliver prompts to a caregiver to assist the caregiver in delivering cardiac resuscitation to a patient; at least one sensor configured to detect the caregiver's progress in delivering the cardiac resuscitation, wherein the sensor is configured to provide a signal containing information indicative of ventilation; a memory in which a plurality of different prompts are stored, including at least one ventilation progress prompt to guide the rescuer's performance of ventilation; a processor configured to process the output of the sensor to determine a parameter descriptive of ventilation progress and to determine whether the ventilation progress prompt should be selected for delivery. Possible parameters descriptive of ventilation progress include ventilation rate, delivered tidal volume, and flow rate.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 29, 2023
    Publication date: July 25, 2024
    Inventor: Gary A. Freeman
  • Patent number: 12036177
    Abstract: A system for assisting a rescuer in performing cardio-pulmonary resuscitation (CPR) on a patient includes: a proximity sensor configured to be positioned at a location corresponding to a location of a rescuer's hand when delivering compressions to a patient's chest, the proximity sensor configured to produce a signal indicative of the rescuer's hands being released from the patient's chest; a medical device operatively coupled with the proximity sensor and configured to provide resuscitative treatment to the patient; and a controller communicatively coupled with the medical device and the proximity sensor. The controller is configured to: determine, based upon the signal from the proximity sensor, if the rescuer's hands have been released from the patient's chest, and trigger an action by the medical device in response to a determination that the rescuer's hands have been released from the patient's chest.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 22, 2021
    Date of Patent: July 16, 2024
    Assignee: ZOLL Medical Corporation
    Inventors: Gary A. Freeman, Jing Pan, Ziad F. Elghazzawi