Patents by Inventor Mark D. Palma

Mark D. Palma 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).

  • Methods and apparatus for analysis of angiographic and other cyclical images
    Patent number: 7697974
    Abstract: A method for analyzing stored frames of time-stamped imaging data and time-stamped physiologic data obtained during a study of a patient during a plurality of cardiac cycles. The imaging data includes frames representative of a succession of images of the patient's heart. These configurations use a computer to analyze the stored physiologic data to determine times of a selected phase in the plurality of cardiac cycles, select, in the plurality of cardiac cycles, stored images corresponding to the determined times of the selected phase, and align and average images corresponding to the selected phase across the plurality of cardiac cycles to produce a single representative frame of image data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 10, 2003
    Date of Patent: April 13, 2010
    Assignee: GE Medical Systems Global Technology Company, LLC
    Inventors: John H. Jenkins, Mark D. Palma