Patents by Inventor Mark J. PHELPS

Mark J. PHELPS 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: 20240000350
    Abstract: In some examples, a medical system includes a medical device. The medical device may include a housing configured to be implanted in a target site of a patient, a light emitter configured to emit a signal configured to cause a fluorescent marker to emit a fluoresced signal into the target site, and a light detector that may be configured to detect the fluoresced signal. The medical system may include processing circuitry configured to determine a characteristic of the fluorescent marker based on the emitted signal and the fluoresced signal. The characteristic of the fluorescent marker may be indicative of a presence of a compound in the patient, and the processing circuitry may be configured to track the presence of the compound of the patient based on the characteristic of the fluorescent marker.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 18, 2023
    Publication date: January 4, 2024
    Inventors: John E. Burnes, James K. Carney, Jonathan L. Kuhn, Mark J. Phelps, Jesper Svenning Kristensen, Rodolphe Katra
  • Patent number: 11759131
    Abstract: In some examples, a medical system includes a medical device. The medical device may include a housing configured to be implanted in a target site of a patient, a light emitter configured to emit a signal configured to cause a fluorescent marker to emit a fluoresced signal into the target site, and a light detector that may be configured to detect the fluoresced signal. The medical system may include processing circuitry configured to determine a characteristic of the fluorescent marker based on the emitted signal and the fluoresced signal. The characteristic of the fluorescent marker may be indicative of a presence of a compound in the patient, and the processing circuitry may be configured to track the presence of the compound of the patient based on the characteristic of the fluorescent marker.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 3, 2021
    Date of Patent: September 19, 2023
    Assignee: Medtronic, Inc.
    Inventors: John E. Burnes, James K. Carney, Jonathan L. Kuhn, Mark J. Phelps, Jesper Svenning Kristensen, Rodolphe Katra
  • Publication number: 20220296174
    Abstract: A system comprises electrocardiogram sensing, glucose sensing circuitry, and processing circuitry. The sensing circuitry is configured to sense an electrocardiogram of a patient. The glucose sensing circuitry is configured to sense glucose levels of the patient. The processing circuitry configured to detect atrial fibrillation of the patient during a time unit based on the electrocardiogram of the patient, determine a first metric, wherein the first metric is associated with atrial fibrillation the patient experiences during the time unit, determine a second metric, wherein the second metric is associated with glucose levels of the patient during the time unit, and generate a health metric, wherein the health metric is determined based on the first and second metrics.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 17, 2021
    Publication date: September 22, 2022
    Inventors: Patrick W. Kinzie, David L. Probst, Mohsen Askarinya, Aaron Gilletti, Richard J. O'Brien, Mark J. Phelps, Randal C. Schulhauser, John Wainwright
  • Publication number: 20220211331
    Abstract: This disclosure is directed to techniques for identifying a medical condition, such as an infection and/or a disease, from sensor data indicative of physiological parameters. In some examples, one example technique for identifying the medical condition includes process sensor data comprising data indicative of a plurality of physiological parameters for a patient comprising an impedance parameter, computing an index based upon values corresponding to at least two of the physiological parameters and based upon a comparison between the index and prediction criterion, generating, for display, output data corresponding to the comparison results, wherein the output data indicates a prediction of the medical condition in the patient if the comparison results indicate satisfaction of the prediction criterion.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 21, 2021
    Publication date: July 7, 2022
    Inventors: Holly S. Norman, Douglas A. Hettrick, Mark J. Phelps, Shantanu Sarkar, Todd M. Zielinski
  • Publication number: 20210321883
    Abstract: A system comprising at least one implanted sensor device comprising one or more continuous sensors to detect a first modular set of biometrics of a subject. A system includes a computing device that receives the first modular set of biometrics over a period of time and receives a second modular set of biometrics for the subject. The computing device selectively serves a graphical user interface configured to present one or more of the first modular set and second modular set of biometrics and normalizes at least a portion of the first modular set and second modular set of biometrics over a period of time. The device generates a score indicative of a state of a biological system of the subject corresponding to a portion of biometrics of the first modular set and second modular set of biometrics and causes the score to be displayed via an electronic device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 15, 2020
    Publication date: October 21, 2021
    Applicant: MEDTRONIC, INC.
    Inventors: Scott T. Mcmahan, Mark J. Phelps, Randal Schulhauser
  • Publication number: 20210267498
    Abstract: In some examples, a medical system includes a medical device. The medical device may include a housing configured to be implanted in a target site of a patient, a light emitter configured to emit a signal configured to cause a fluorescent marker to emit a fluoresced signal into the target site, and a light detector that may be configured to detect the fluoresced signal. The medical system may include processing circuitry configured to determine a characteristic of the fluorescent marker based on the emitted signal and the fluoresced signal. The characteristic of the fluorescent marker may be indicative of a presence of a compound in the patient, and the processing circuitry may be configured to track the presence of the compound of the patient based on the characteristic of the fluorescent marker.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 3, 2021
    Publication date: September 2, 2021
    Inventors: John E. Burnes, James K. Carney, Jonathan L. Kuhn, Mark J. Phelps, Jesper Svenning Kristensen, Rodolphe Katra
  • Patent number: 11013436
    Abstract: In some examples, a medical system includes a medical device. The medical device may include a housing configured to be implanted in a target site of a patient, a light emitter configured to emit a signal configured to cause a fluorescent marker to emit a fluoresced signal into the target site, and a light detector that may be configured to detect the fluoresced signal. The medical system may include processing circuitry configured to determine a characteristic of the fluorescent marker based on the emitted signal and the fluoresced signal. The characteristic of the fluorescent marker may be indicative of a presence of a compound in the patient, and the processing circuitry may be configured to track the presence of the compound of the patient based on the characteristic of the fluorescent marker.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 5, 2018
    Date of Patent: May 25, 2021
    Assignee: MEDTRONIC, INC.
    Inventors: John E. Burnes, James K. Carney, Jonathan L. Kuhn, Mark J. Phelps, Jesper Svenning Kristensen, Rodolphe Katra
  • Publication number: 20190069815
    Abstract: In some examples, a medical system includes a medical device. The medical device may include a housing configured to be implanted in a target site of a patient, a light emitter configured to emit a signal configured to cause a fluorescent marker to emit a fluoresced signal into the target site, and a light detector that may be configured to detect the fluoresced signal. The medical system may include processing circuitry configured to determine a characteristic of the fluorescent marker based on the emitted signal and the fluoresced signal. The characteristic of the fluorescent marker may be indicative of a presence of a compound in the patient, and the processing circuitry may be configured to track the presence of the compound of the patient based on the characteristic of the fluorescent marker.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 5, 2018
    Publication date: March 7, 2019
    Inventors: John E. Burnes, James K. Carney, Jonathan L. Kuhn, Mark J. Phelps, Jesper Svenning Kristensen, Rodolphe Katra
  • Publication number: 20100191100
    Abstract: Methods and systems for visualizing and analyzing anatomical motion are disclosed. The method includes providing a plurality of implantable sensors, each sensor configured for implantation adjacent to an anatomical feature of a patient and tracking the positions of the implantable sensors as the patient is put through a diagnostic motion protocol. The method also includes correlating the positions of the implantable sensors to the positions of the anatomical features of the patient adjacent to the sensors, visualizing a motion sequence of the anatomical features according to the positions of the anatomical features from the diagnostic motion protocol; and analyzing the motion sequence of the anatomical features to identify a medical problem.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 23, 2009
    Publication date: July 29, 2010
    Applicant: WARSAW ORTHOPEDIC, INC.
    Inventors: Kent M. ANDERSON, Matthew M. MORRISON, Thomas A. CARLS, Eric C. LANGE, Geoffrey D. BATCHELDER, Mark J. PHELPS, Clark Brian NORGAARD, Erik Justus HERRMANN