Patents by Inventor Mark Haerle

Mark Haerle 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 and apparatus for hardware/firmware trap
    Patent number: 7313443
    Abstract: The operation of an implantable medical device executing at least one set of firmware code is modified using a hardware/firmware trap at a point of execution of the set of firmware code. A patch code for directing the implantable medical device to perform a particular task is provided for execution when the trap generates an interrupt. The operation thereafter returns to the point of execution of the set of firmware code where the interrupt was generated and execution of the set of firmware code continues in a normal manner.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 10, 2005
    Date of Patent: December 25, 2007
    Assignee: Medtronic, Inc.
    Inventors: Vincent E. Splett, Carl A. Schu, Mark Haerle, Paul J. Huelskamp
  • System and method for operating an implantable medical device in a disruptive energy field
    Publication number: 20060167496
    Abstract: A system and method for operating an implantable medical device in a disruptive energy field. The system includes an implantable medical device having a control processor and memory. The control processor operates the implantable medical device in a first mode when outside the disruptive energy field, and in a second mode when exposed to a disruptive energy field.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 26, 2005
    Publication date: July 27, 2006
    Inventors: Shannon Nelson, Dean Hooper, Eric Ericson, Paul Swanberg, Mark Haerle, Lori Echols, Kathleen Crandall
  • Method and apparatus for hardware/firmware trap
    Publication number: 20050159786
    Abstract: A method and an apparatus for a hardware/firmware trap. At least one set of a firmware code is executed for operation of the device. Modification to the operation of the device is performed. The modification to the operation comprises: receiving a patch code; creating a firmware trap; generating an interrupt in response to the firmware trap; and executing the patch code in response to the interrupt.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 10, 2005
    Publication date: July 21, 2005
    Inventors: Vincent Splett, Carl Schu, Mark Haerle, Paul Huelskamp
  • Method and apparatus for hardware/firmware trap
    Patent number: 6915167
    Abstract: A method and an apparatus for a hardware/firmware trap. At least one set of a firmware code is executed for operation of the device. Modification to the operation of the device is performed. The modification to the operation comprises: receiving a patch code; creating a firmware trap; generating an interrupt in response to the firmware trap; and executing the patch code in response to the interrupt.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 14, 2001
    Date of Patent: July 5, 2005
    Assignee: Medtronic, Inc.
    Inventors: Vincent E. Splett, Carl A. Schu, Mark Haerle, Paul J. Huelskamp
  • Method and apparatus for hardware/firmware trap
    Publication number: 20020091417
    Abstract: A method and an apparatus for a hardware/firmware trap. At least one set of a firmware code is executed for operation of the device. Modification to the operation of the device is performed. The modification to the operation comprises: receiving a patch code; creating a firmware trap; generating an interrupt in response to the firmware trap; and executing the patch code in response to the interrupt.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 14, 2001
    Publication date: July 11, 2002
    Inventors: Vincent E. Splett, Carl A. Schu, Mark Haerle, Paul J. Huelskamp