Patents by Inventor Keith Herron

Keith Herron 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: 20160104082
    Abstract: Systems and methods that monitor the movement of a patient through the medical treatment process and collect, process, and display various statistics concerning that movement, while also making suggestions that improve patient flow, providing tools to appropriately revise schedules and templates to make future schedules more efficient. Embodiments of the invention treat each patient visit as a multi-stage process and collect information of interest concerning the various stages of the process, such as arrival time, departure time, etc. The collected data may be used to study the treatment process and how it relates to certain individual patients or classes of patients, as well as, e.g., potentially making recommendations to improve the treatment process, modifying future schedules to increase efficiency, making real time optimizations of patient visits, etc.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 11, 2015
    Publication date: April 14, 2016
    Inventors: Trevor Gruby, Marcus Ruark, Raymond Gruby, Eric Novack, Keith Herron, Mark Bildeaux
  • Patent number: 4570646
    Abstract: The present invention comprises a method and apparatus for smoking. The smoking apparatus is specifically designed for use by smokers in smoking cigarettes. Moreover, the smoking apparatus may be referred to as a generally closed smoking system because smoke normally produced about the burning end of the cigarette is confined, and further a smoke receiving chamber is provided for receiving exhaled smoke from the smoker.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 9, 1984
    Date of Patent: February 18, 1986
    Inventor: B. Keith Herron