Patents by Inventor Kevin C. McGill

Kevin C. McGill 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).

  • Method for decomposing an electromyogram into individual motor unit action potentials
    Patent number: 4611284
    Abstract: An automated method of decomposing an electromyogram for identifying and measuring individual motor-unit action potentials. An electromyogram interference pattern is sampled at its Nyquist rate and digitally filtered to accentuate the rapidly rising spike components. The spikes are classified by template matching, using their canonically registered discrete Fourier transforms to align and compare them. The classifications are verified by analysis of interspike intervals. The motor-unit action potentials are then averaged from the unfiltered interference pattern using the identified spikes as triggers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 9, 1983
    Date of Patent: September 9, 1986
    Assignee: The Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford, Jr. University
    Inventors: Kevin C. McGill, Leslie J. Dorfman
  • Method for real-time detection and identification of neuroelectric signals
    Patent number: 4603703
    Abstract: Neuroelectric signals are detected and processed by digital filtering to detect, classify and determine the relative proportions of the different types of signals eminating from muscle, nerve or brain tissue.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 13, 1984
    Date of Patent: August 5, 1986
    Assignee: The Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University
    Inventors: Kevin C. McGill, Leslie J. Dorfman