Patents by Inventor Kirby Phillips
Kirby Phillips 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: 9489487Abstract: A bio-information monitoring system passively monitors a patient with a remote portable bio-information unit that takes various bio-information measurements at selected time intervals as well as at random times without patient intervention. The measurements are converted to digital signals which are transmitted from the bio-information unit to a modem when the bio-information unit is in proximity to the modem. The signals are stored in the modem and uploaded to a central monitoring network. Automatic alerts may be sent from the central monitoring network to a treatment provider. The treatment provider may also access the information through secured dedicated websites via the Internet.Type: GrantFiled: March 22, 2005Date of Patent: November 8, 2016Assignee: Alcohol Monitoring Systems, Inc.Inventors: Jeffrey Scott Hawthorne, Michael Leonard Iiams, Glenn Charles Tubb, Richard A. Stoll, Gary Alan Shoffner, Brian Kirby Phillips
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Patent number: 9398858Abstract: A portable testing unit for biometric identity confirmation includes a housing with an orifice to receive a breath sample from the test subject, a spirometric sensor, and a pulse sensor adjacent to the orifice. A processor analyzes spirometric data from the spirometric sensor and simultaneous pulse wave data from the pulse sensor during the breath sample, together with stored subject characterization data for a known subject to confirm whether the identity of the test subject matches the known subject. A communications link enables the processor to communicate to the external station whether the identity of the test subject matches the known subject. For example, this portable testing unit can be used to control access to a secure facility or computer, authenticate the identity of a party in a financial transaction, or confirm the identity of the subject of an alcohol monitoring test.Type: GrantFiled: December 6, 2012Date of Patent: July 26, 2016Assignee: Integrated Monitoring Systems, LLCInventors: Brian Kirby Phillips, Geoffrey A. Wilson
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Patent number: 8317697Abstract: A tamper proof transdermal alcohol content monitoring device is made up of analog and digital sides which are securely attached to the human subject to be monitored. The analog side has a sampling circuit which draws a measured insensible skin perspiration sample from the skin of the subject and measured with an electrochemical fuel cell. A distance measurement of the device from the skin of the subject and temperature of the sample are monitored along with the transdermal alcohol content, and converted to digital signals which are transmitted to a modem when the monitor is in proximity to the modem. The signals are stored in the modem and uploaded to a central monitoring station. Automatic alerts may be sent from the central monitoring station to a supervising agency. The supervising agency may also access the information through secured dedicated websites via the Internet.Type: GrantFiled: April 25, 2006Date of Patent: November 27, 2012Assignee: Alcohol Monitoring Systems, Inc.Inventors: Jeffrey Scott Hawthorne, Brian Kirby Phillips, Michael Leonard Iiams, William James Roushey, III, Nolan James Farmer, Jr.
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Patent number: 7641611Abstract: A tamper proof transdermal alcohol content monitoring device is made up of analog and digital sides which are securely attached to the human subject to be monitored. The analog side has a sampling circuit which draws a measured insensible skin perspiration sample from the skin of the subject and measured with an electrochemical fuel cell. A distance measurement of the device from the skin of the subject and temperature of the sample are monitored along with the transdermal alcohol content, and converted to digital signals which are transmitted to a modem when the monitor is in proximity to the modem. The signals are stored in the modem and uploaded to a central monitoring station. Automatic alerts may be sent from the central monitoring station to a supervising agency. The supervising agency may also access the information through secured dedicated websites via the Internet.Type: GrantFiled: April 25, 2006Date of Patent: January 5, 2010Assignee: Alcohol Monitoring Systems, Inc.Inventors: Jeffrey Scott Hawthorne, Brian Kirby Phillips, Michael Leonard Iiams, William James Roushey, III, Nolan James Farmer, Jr.
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Patent number: 7611461Abstract: A tamper proof transdermal alcohol content monitoring device is made up of analog and digital sides which are securely attached to the human subject to be monitored. The analog side has a sampling circuit which draws a measured insensible skin perspiration sample from the skin of the subject and measured with an electrochemical fuel cell. A distance measurement of the device from the skin of the subject and temperature of the sample are monitored along with the transdermal alcohol content, and converted to digital signals which are transmitted to a modem when the monitor is in proximity to the modem. The signals are stored in the modem and uploaded to a central monitoring station. Automatic alerts may be sent from the central monitoring station to a supervising agency. The supervising agency may also access the information through secured dedicated websites via the Internet.Type: GrantFiled: April 25, 2006Date of Patent: November 3, 2009Assignee: Alcohol Monitoring Systems, Inc.Inventors: Jeffrey Scott Hawthorne, Brian Kirby Phillips, Michael Leonard Iiams, William James Roushey, III, Nolan James Farmer, Jr.
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Patent number: 7462149Abstract: A tamper proof transdermal alcohol content monitoring device is made up of analog and digital sides which are securely attached to the human subject to be monitored. The analog side has a sampling circuit which draws a measured insensible skin perspiration sample from the skin of the subject and measured with an electrochemical fuel cell. A distance measurement of the device from the skin of the subject and temperature of the sample are monitored along with the transdermal alcohol content, and converted to digital signals which are transmitted to a modem when the monitor is in proximity to the modem. The signals are stored in the modem and uploaded to a central monitoring station. Automatic alerts may be sent from the central monitoring station to a supervising agency. The supervising agency may also access the information through secured dedicated websites via the Internet.Type: GrantFiled: May 19, 2003Date of Patent: December 9, 2008Assignee: Alcohol Monitoring Systems, Inc.Inventors: Jeffrey Scott Hawthorne, Brian Kirby Phillips, Michael Leonard Iiams, Williams James Roushey, III, Nolan James Farmer, Jr.
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Publication number: 20040236199Abstract: A tamper proof transdermal alcohol content monitoring device is made up of analog and digital sides which are securely attached to the human subject to be monitored. The analog side has a sampling circuit which draws a measured insensible skin perspiration sample from the skin of the subject and measured with an electrochemical fuel cell. A distance measurement of the device from the skin of the subject and skin temperature of the subject are monitored along with the transdermal alcohol content, and converted to digital signals which are transmitted to a modem when the monitor is in proximity to the modem. The signals are stored in the modem and uploaded to a central monitoring station. Automatic alerts may be sent from the central monitoring station to a supervising agency. The supervising agency may also access the information through secured dedicated websites via the Internet.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 19, 2003Publication date: November 25, 2004Inventors: Jeffrey Scott Hawthorne, Brian Kirby Phillips, Michael Leonard Iiams, William James Roushey, Nolan James Farmer
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Patent number: 4874299Abstract: A precision pump for moving small volumes of fluid includes an electromagnet in which is reciprocally mounted an armature carrying a diaphragm on one end such that upon reciprocal movement of the armature an alternating high and low pressure can be created in a pumping chamber to move fluid through the pump. In one embodiment of the pump, the electromagnet drives the armature in one direction and a spring returns the armature to effect the reciprocating movement while in a second embodiment a pair of electromagnets are axially aligned and cooperate with a pair of magnets on the armature to alternately move the armature in a linear reciprocating motion as current is alternately applied to the electromagnets.Type: GrantFiled: June 6, 1988Date of Patent: October 17, 1989Assignee: Life Loc, Inc.Inventors: Benjamin L. Lopez, Steven A. Beard, Kirby Phillips
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Patent number: 4749553Abstract: A breath alcohol detector measures and compensates for distance between the mouth of the individual exhaling breath into the ambient air and the detector, the atmospheric pressure, and the temperature. Blood alcohol content information is calculated using these compensation factors and a signal obtained from an electrochemical fuel cell which is indicative of the amount of alcohol or other gas contained in the sample. The detector also includes a reciprocally acting electromagnetically energized motor which drives a diaphragm pump to draw the sample into the electrochemical fuel cell.Type: GrantFiled: April 8, 1987Date of Patent: June 7, 1988Assignee: Life Loc, Inc.Inventors: Benjamin L. Lopez, Steven A. Beard, Kirby Phillips