Patents by Inventor J. Gerald Quirk

J. Gerald Quirk 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).

  • Apparatus and method for feature extraction and classification of fetal heart rate
    Patent number: 10368755
    Abstract: Provided are a device and method for receiving a fetal heart rate (FHR) signal at each interval during a monitoring period, receiving a uterine pressure (UP) signal at each of the intervals to obtain a plurality of FHR-UP signal pairs, and extracting a feature value for each FHR-UP signal pair, with the feature value being extracted from a predefined alphabet of feature values.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 28, 2017
    Date of Patent: August 6, 2019
    Assignee: The Research Foundation for The State University of New York
    Inventors: Shishir Dash, J. Gerald Quirk, Petar Djuric
  • APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR FEATURE EXTRACTION AND CLASSIFICATION OF FETAL HEART RATE
    Publication number: 20180078160
    Abstract: Provided are a device and method for receiving a fetal heart rate (FHR) signal at each interval during a monitoring period, receiving a uterine pressure (UP) signal at each of the intervals to obtain a plurality of FHR-UP signal pairs, and extracting a feature value for each FHR-UP signal pair, with the feature value being extracted from a predefined alphabet of feature values.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 28, 2017
    Publication date: March 22, 2018
    Inventors: Shishir DASH, J. Gerald QUIRK, Petar DJURIC
  • APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR FEATURE EXTRACTION AND CLASSIFICATION OF FETAL HEART RATE
    Publication number: 20140378855
    Abstract: Provided are an apparatus and method for receiving a fetal heart rate (FHR) signal at each interval during a monitoring period, receiving a uterine pressure (UP) signal at each of the intervals to obtain a plurality of FHR-UP signal pairs, and extracting a feature value for each FHR-UP signal pair, with the feature value being extracted from a predefined alphabet of feature values.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 25, 2014
    Publication date: December 25, 2014
    Inventors: Shishir DASH, J. Gerald QUIRK, Petar DJURIC
  • Method of gene delivery using wildtype adeno associated viral (AAV) vectors with insertions
    Patent number: 6153436
    Abstract: The present invention provides a method of human gene therapy using AAV vectors with essentially wildtype phenotype. Genes of 900 bases or less can be inserted into wildtype AAV and still allow the resulting vector to have a largely wildtype phenotype. For example, several antisense genes could be inserted and still allow packaging. Such wildtype vectors have several advantages. First, high titers of such vectors is easy to accomplish. Second, the vectors, since they include the Rep78 gene, integrate specifically into human chromosome 19. Third, such vectors, being wildtype, spread after their initial introduction. Another method for use of large wildtype AAV genomes is as complementors for fully defective AAV vectors. Such complementors can be delivered by virus infection and, be introduced easily into 100% of the cells used to produce virus. Viral infection is superior to synthetic techniques for introducing DNA into tissue culture producer cells.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 9, 1998
    Date of Patent: November 28, 2000
    Assignee: The Board of Trustees of the University of Arkansas
    Inventors: Paul L. Hermonat, J. Gerald Quirk, Brian Bishop, Han Li