Patents by Inventor Hugh Stoddart
Hugh Stoddart 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: 11301758Abstract: A personal illness management system includes an extended semantic model of a health care knowledge domain, a semantic knowledge database for personal illness management, and an inference engine. The extended semantic model of a health care knowledge domain includes existing concepts related to personal illness management, existing relationships among the existing concepts, and inference logic embedded within each existing concept. The semantic knowledge database for personal illness management is distinct from the extended semantic model and includes existing nodes and existing links. The existing nodes represent instances of the existing concepts, and the existing links represent instances of the existing relationships among the existing concepts. The inference engine is knowledge domain independent and populates the semantic knowledge database with the instances of the existing concepts and the instances of the existing relationships by following the inference logic embedded within each existing concept.Type: GrantFiled: September 16, 2017Date of Patent: April 12, 2022Assignee: SENSCIO SYSTEMSInventors: Piali De, Hugh A. Stoddart
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Publication number: 20180032879Abstract: A personal illness management system includes an extended semantic model of a health care knowledge domain, a semantic knowledge database for personal illness management, and an inference engine. The extended semantic model of a health care knowledge domain includes existing concepts related to personal illness management, existing relationships among the existing concepts, and inference logic embedded within each existing concept. The semantic knowledge database for personal illness management is distinct from the extended semantic model and includes existing nodes and existing links. The existing nodes represent instances of the existing concepts, and the existing links represent instances of the existing relationships among the existing concepts. The inference engine is knowledge domain independent and populates the semantic knowledge database with the instances of the existing concepts and the instances of the existing relationships by following the inference logic embedded within each existing concept.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 16, 2017Publication date: February 1, 2018Applicant: SENSCIO SYSTEMSInventors: PIALI DE, HUGH A. STODDART
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Patent number: 9798976Abstract: A system for providing semantic reasoning includes an extended semantic model, a semantic knowledge database, and an inference engine. The extended semantic model includes existing concepts for a specific knowledge domain, existing relationships among the existing concepts, and logic including conditions and processes that cause a new concept or a new relationship to be inferred from an existing concept or an existing relationship, respectively. The semantic knowledge database includes existing nodes and existing links and the existing nodes represent instances of the existing concepts, and the existing links represent instances of the existing relationships. The inference engine is configured to add new nodes and new links to the semantic knowledge database by following the logic of the extended semantic model.Type: GrantFiled: July 15, 2014Date of Patent: October 24, 2017Assignee: SENSCIO SYSTEMSInventors: Piali De, Hugh A. Stoddart
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Publication number: 20150019462Abstract: A system for providing semantic reasoning includes an extended semantic model, a semantic knowledge database, and an inference engine. The extended semantic model includes existing concepts for a specific knowledge domain, existing relationships among the existing concepts, and logic including conditions and processes that cause a new concept or a new relationship to be inferred from an existing concept or an existing relationship, respectively. The semantic knowledge database includes existing nodes and existing links and the existing nodes represent instances of the existing concepts, and the existing links represent instances of the existing relationships. The inference engine is configured to add new nodes and new links to the semantic knowledge database by following the logic of the extended semantic model.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 15, 2014Publication date: January 15, 2015Applicant: SENSCIO SYSTEMSInventors: PIALI DE, HUGH A. STODDART
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Patent number: 7221969Abstract: A new and improved method and apparatus for determining cerebral oxygenation. In one basic aspect, a new processing methodology for oxygenation determination, in particular cerebral oxygenation, is provided based on the apprehension and discovery that time-based photon quantity determinations of the wavelength-specific light leaving the head of the patient may be significantly improved, and simplified, by determining the quantity of returning photons in at least one set of two different but closely spaced points in time following the instant of injection, and then taking the ratio of the determinations in each set, to thereby cancel and remove several important sources of error.Type: GrantFiled: February 27, 2003Date of Patent: May 22, 2007Assignee: Neurophysics CorporationInventors: Hugh F. Stoddart, Hugh A. Stoddart, Thomas Christopher John Sefranek, Timothy Olden, Dale Martin
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Publication number: 20070029491Abstract: A collimator, and in particular a method for making a collimator for use with a small high resolution single-photon emission computed tomographic (SPECT) imaging tool for small animal research. The collimator is sized, both functionally and structurally, particularly smaller than known collimators and appropriately scaled to achieve a highly sensitive collimator which facilitates desired reconstruction resolutions for small animals, as well as compliments other functional imaging modalities such as positron emission tomography (PET), functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI), electroencephalography (EEG), and event-related potential (ERP), magneto-encephalography (MEG), and near-infrared optical imaging.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 4, 2005Publication date: February 8, 2007Inventors: Timothy Olden, Dale Martin, Thomas John Sefranek, Gordon LaPoint, Hugh Stoddart, Hugh Stoddart
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Publication number: 20070007454Abstract: An brain scanning apparatus having a scanner device and a host computer. The scanner radiation detectors detect radiation emitted from a desired portion, or slice, of a brain source. The scanner device contains microprocessors and code which control the movement of the radiation detectors and performs the data acquisition over a number of slices and transmits this data to the host computer. The host computer initiates a scan by sending desired setup parameters to the scanner device and instructing the scanner to begin collecting data. During the scan, acquired data is sent to the host computer and spooled to a hard disk. The computer can be instructed to perform a slice by slice reconstruction of the source brain while the scan is taking place in order to produce a 2-dimensional reconstruction of the mapped brain. A complete 3-dimensional reconstruction of all the compiled slices is performed and visually displayed after acquisition of all the required slices.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 24, 2006Publication date: January 11, 2007Inventors: Hugh Stoddart, Hugh Stoddart
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Patent number: 7105824Abstract: An brain scanning apparatus having a scanner device and a host computer. The scanner radiation detectors detect radiation emitted from a desired portion, or slice, of a brain source. The scanner device contains microprocessors and code which control the movement of the radiation detectors and performs the data acquisition over a number of slices and transmits this data to the host computer. The host computer initiates a scan by sending desired setup parameters to the scanner device and instructing the scanner to begin collecting data. During the scan, acquired data is sent to the host computer and spooled to a hard disk. The computer can be instructed to perform a slice by slice reconstruction of the source brain while the scan is taking place in order to produce a 2-dimensional reconstruction of the mapped brain. A complete 3-dimensional reconstruction of all the compiled slices is performed and visually displayed after acquisition of all the required slices.Type: GrantFiled: May 9, 2002Date of Patent: September 12, 2006Assignee: NeuroLogica, Corp.Inventors: Hugh A. Stoddart, Hugh F. Stoddart
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Publication number: 20050119542Abstract: A new and improved method and apparatus for determining cerebral oxygenation. In one basic aspect, a new processing methodology for oxygenation determination, in particular cerebral oxygenation, is provided based on the apprehension and discovery that time-based photon quantity determinations of the wavelength-specific light leaving the head of the patient may be significantly improved, and simplified, by determining the quantity of returning photons in at least one set of two different but closely spaced points in time following the instant of injection, and then taking the ratio of the determinations in each set, to thereby cancel and remove several important sources of error.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 27, 2003Publication date: June 2, 2005Inventors: Hugh Stoddart, Hugh Stoddart, Thomas Christopher Sefranek, Timothy Olden, Dale Martin
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Publication number: 20040144925Abstract: An brain scanning apparatus having a scanner device and a host computer. The scanner radiation detectors detect radiation emitted from a desired portion, or slice, of a brain source. The scanner device contains microprocessors and code which control the movement of the radiation detectors and performs the data acquisition over a number of slices and transmits this data to the host computer. The host computer initiates a scan by sending desired setup parameters to the scanner device and instructing the scanner to begin collecting data. During the scan, acquired data is sent to the host computer and spooled to a hard disk. The computer can be instructed to perform a slice by slice reconstruction of the source brain while the scan is taking place in order to produce a 2-dimensional reconstruction of the mapped brain. A complete 3-dimensional reconstruction of all the compiled slices is performed and visually displayed after acquisition of all the required slices.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 7, 2003Publication date: July 29, 2004Inventors: Hugh A Stoddart, Hugh F Stoddart
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Publication number: 20030001098Abstract: An brain scanning apparatus having a scanner device and a host computer. The scanner radiation detectors detect radiation emitted from a desired portion, or slice, of a brain source. The scanner device contains microprocessors and code which control the movement of the radiation detectors and performs the data acquisition over a number of slices and transmits this data to the host computer. The host computer initiates a scan by sending desired setup parameters to the scanner device and instructing the scanner to begin collecting data. During the scan, acquired data is sent to the host computer and spooled to a hard disk. The computer can be instructed to perform a slice by slice reconstruction of the source brain while the scan is taking place in order to produce a 2-dimensional reconstruction of the mapped brain. A complete 3-dimensional reconstruction of all the compiled slices is performed and visually displayed after acquisition of all the required slices.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 30, 2001Publication date: January 2, 2003Inventors: Hugh A. Stoddart, Hugh F. Stoddart