Patents by Inventor Mark Zdeblick

Mark Zdeblick 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: 20140017995
    Abstract: Aspects of the invention include multi-mode communication ingestible event marker devices. Ingestible event marker devices of the invention include an ingestible component comprising a conductive communication module and at least one additional non-conductive communication module. The non-conductive communication module may be integrated with the ingestible component or at least a portion or all of the non-conductive communication module may be associated with a packaging component of the ingestible event marker device. Additional aspects of the invention include systems that include the devices and one or more receivers, as well as methods of using the same.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 6, 2013
    Publication date: January 16, 2014
    Applicant: Proteus Digital Health, Inc.
    Inventors: Timothy L. Robertson, Mark Zdeblick
  • Patent number: 8583227
    Abstract: Portable electroviscerography systems are provided. Aspects of the systems include a body-associated receiver and an ingestible identifier unit, both of which are configured to detect visceral electrical signals. The system communicates with an extra-corporeal data processor configured to receive data from the body-associated receiver and generate and electroviscerogram from the received data. Also provided are methods of producing electroviscerograms using systems of the present invention.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 23, 2011
    Date of Patent: November 12, 2013
    Assignee: Proteus Digital Health, Inc.
    Inventors: George Savage, Hooman Hafezi, Olivier Colliou, Mark Zdeblick, Angela Strand
  • Patent number: 8545436
    Abstract: Receivers, which may be external or implantable, are provided. Aspects of receivers of the invention include the presence of one or more of: a high power-low power module; an intermediary module; a power supply module configured to activate and deactivate one or more power supplies to a high power processing block; a serial peripheral interface bus connecting master and slave blocks; and a multi-purpose connector. Receivers of the invention may be configured to receive a conductively transmitted signal. Also provided are systems that include the receivers, as well as methods of using the same. Additionally systems and methods are disclosed for using a receiver for coordinating with dosage delivery systems.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 23, 2011
    Date of Patent: October 1, 2013
    Assignee: Proteus Digital Health, Inc.
    Inventors: Timothy Robertson, Fataneh Omidvar, Yashar Behzadi, Lawrence Arne, Kenneth Rowberry, James Hutchison, Robert Leichner, George Savage, Andrew Thompson, Mark Zdeblick, Marc Kreidler, Hooman Hafezi, Robert Duck
  • Publication number: 20130231188
    Abstract: The present invention provides receiving devices and method for use with gaming pursuits, including, in one aspect, a plurality of receivers to communicate physiologic data, at least one hub to receive the physiologic data, and a gaming module to receive, directly or indirectly, the physiologic data from the hub.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 1, 2011
    Publication date: September 5, 2013
    Applicant: PROTEUS DIGITAL HEALTH, INC.
    Inventors: Joy Berberich, Mark Zdeblick
  • Publication number: 20130172690
    Abstract: An apparatus is disclosed as part of a system for tracking and confirming delivery of a medicinal dose to a user. The apparatus includes a detector. The detector is secured to and communicatively coupled to the user and is capable of detecting a current flow through the user's body. The current flow is produced when the user makes contact with the apparatus. The apparatus includes at least two contact areas connected to a power source where a circuit and, hence, a current path is completed through the user's body as the user makes contact with the apparatus. The current flow is detected by the detector, which is coupled to the user. Also disclosed is an apparatus for tracking and confirming delivery of a medicinal dose to a user where the apparatus includes an acoustic detector. Upon loading the dose into a chamber an acoustic vibration is generated. The vibration is detected and correlated with a current flow that is produced when the user makes contact with the apparatus.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 11, 2011
    Publication date: July 4, 2013
    Applicant: PROTEUS DIGITAL HEALTH, INC.
    Inventors: Lawrence Arne, Benedict Costello, Yuriy Mestman, Timothy Robertson, George Savage, Angela Strand, Todd Thompson, Mark Zdeblick, William McAllister
  • Patent number: 8469921
    Abstract: Receivers, which may be external or implantable, are provided. Aspects of receivers of the invention include the presence of one or more of: a high power-low power module; an intermediary module; a power supply module configured to activate and deactivate one or more power supplies to a high power processing block; a serial peripheral interface bus connecting master and slave blocks; and a multi-purpose connector. Receivers of the invention may be configured to receive a conductively transmitted signal. Also provided are systems that include the receivers, as well as methods of using the same. Additionally systems and methods are disclosed for using a receiver for coordinating with dosage delivery systems.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 23, 2011
    Date of Patent: June 25, 2013
    Assignee: Proteus Digital Health, Inc.
    Inventors: Timothy Robertson, Fataneh Omidvar, Yashar Behzadi, Lawrence Arne, Kenneth Rowberry, James Hutchison, Robert Leichner, George Savage, Andrew Thompson, Mark Zdeblick, Marc Kreidler, Hooman Hafezi, Robert Duck
  • Patent number: 8473069
    Abstract: Apparatus and methods enable robust, reliable control for implantable medical devices, including cardiac pacemakers, defibrillators and cardiac resynchronization devices. Integrated circuits in the devices have minimized interfaces, can derive power from the interface signals, and have high voltage and latch-up protection. A device lead has a power generation circuit and a switching circuit using cascaded PMOS transistors for operating with a stable voltage despite fluctuations in the supplied voltage. The lead has control electronics that provide a very low impedance between an electrode and a lead conductor during most of the duration of a pacing pulse, but during a brief initial portion of the pacing pulse, provide a very high impedance to permit charging up a power supply that is local to the control electronics. A method of stabilizing the external impedance and a system for fault detection and fault recovery for an implantable device are also provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 27, 2009
    Date of Patent: June 25, 2013
    Assignee: Proteus Digital Health, Inc.
    Inventors: Yafei Bi, Haifeng Li, Mark Zdeblick, Todd Thompson, Robert Leichner
  • Publication number: 20130096501
    Abstract: A method is disclosed for detecting, by a sensing and data acquisition circuit module, at least one parameter associated with an access port. The method includes wiping at least a portion of an access port, allowing the access port to dry for a predetermined amount of time, accessing the access port with an access device, such as a syringe, and detecting at least one parameter associated with the access port by the sensor and acquisition module. An access port is disclosed that includes a sensor and a data acquisition module for sensing, recording, and providing an alert associated with the detection of the at least one parameter associated with the access port.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 20, 2011
    Publication date: April 18, 2013
    Applicant: PROTEUS DIGITAL HEALTH, INC.
    Inventors: Lawrence Arne, Todd Thompson, Mark Zdeblick, Angela Strand, George Savage, Yuriy Mestman, William H. McAllister
  • Patent number: 8419638
    Abstract: Implantable devices for evaluating body-associated fluid transport structures and methods for using the same are provided. In some instances, the implantable devices include an elongated structure with at least one hermetically sealed integrated circuit sensor stably associated therewith and a transmitter. The devices find use in a variety of different applications, including monitoring the function of various types of body-associated fluid transport structures, such as arteriovenous fistulae, vascular grafts, catheters, cerebrospinal fluid shunts, and implantable central venous access devices.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 18, 2008
    Date of Patent: April 16, 2013
    Assignee: Proteus Digital Health, Inc.
    Inventors: Lawrence W. Arne, Olivier Colliou, Marc Jensen, Mark Zdeblick
  • Patent number: 8412347
    Abstract: A charge pump is provided in the same integrated circuit chip as a control means which permits selectively connecting any of one or more electrodes with conductors along a lead. The charge pump derives about two volts from a one-volt supply, and becomes stable within a few tens of microseconds. The charge pump may be composed of three doublers—the first generating timing signals for the second and third doublers, with the second and third doublers working out of phase with each other.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 29, 2009
    Date of Patent: April 2, 2013
    Assignee: Proteus Digital Health, Inc.
    Inventor: Mark Zdeblick
  • Patent number: 8332020
    Abstract: Sensing is carried out from locations at considerable remove from the stomach. Cooperating sensor electronics are placed at each of two wrists of the patient. The potential discomfort and inconvenience of an abdominal patch are reduced or eliminated. And alternative power sources become available.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 28, 2011
    Date of Patent: December 11, 2012
    Assignee: Proteus Digital Health, Inc.
    Inventor: Mark Zdeblick
  • Publication number: 20120299723
    Abstract: The system of the present invention includes a container and an electronic component with a partial power source in the form of dissimilar materials. The container includes a liquid. Upon contact with the liquid, a voltage potential is created and the power source is completed, which activates the system. The electronic component controls the conductance between the dissimilar materials to produce a unique current signature.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 23, 2011
    Publication date: November 29, 2012
    Inventors: Hooman Hafezi, David O'Reilly, Patricia Johnson, Zahedeh Hatamkhany, Timothy Robertson, Mark Zdeblick
  • Publication number: 20120277813
    Abstract: System, device and method of variable pacing and stimulation are provided. In one example device, one or more lead integrated circuits may programmably control one or more variability parameters. One or more electrodes may provide electrical stimulation. Each electrode may be individually addressable by at least one of the lead integrated circuits and controlled by at least one variability parameter. Electrodes may be intentionally shorted together during time intervals that fall between times of stimulus, so as to dissipate potentials that might otherwise persist and cause electrode degradation.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 28, 2012
    Publication date: November 1, 2012
    Inventor: Mark Zdeblick
  • Publication number: 20120209135
    Abstract: An apparatus having at least one implantable lead, e.g., two leads, three leads, etc., is provided. In one example, the apparatus includes at least two satellites electrically coupled to a common implantable pulse generator by at least two conductors extending from the common implantable pulse generator to each of the at least two satellites. Each satellite, for example, is associated with a respective tissue site such as a cardiac wall.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 29, 2010
    Publication date: August 16, 2012
    Inventor: Mark Zdeblick
  • Patent number: 8204586
    Abstract: Methods for evaluating tissue motion of a tissue location, e.g., a cardiac location, via external continuous field tomography are provided. Aspects of the methods include generating at least one substantially linear continuous field gradient across the tissue location of interest, and using a resultant signal from a sensing element stably associated with the tissue location to evaluate motion of the tissue location. Also provided are systems, devices and related compositions for practicing the subject methods. The subject methods and devices find use in a variety of different applications, including cardiac resynchronization therapy.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 22, 2006
    Date of Patent: June 19, 2012
    Assignee: Proteus Biomedical, Inc.
    Inventor: Mark Zdeblick
  • Patent number: 8187161
    Abstract: Various aspects of the present invention enable robust, reliable control functionality for effectors present on intraluminal, e.g., vascular leads, as well as other types of implantable devices. Aspects of the invention include implantable integrated circuits that have self-referencing and self-clocking signal encoding, and are capable of bidirectional communication. Also provided by the invention are effector assemblies that include the integrated circuits, as well as implantable medical devices, e.g., pulse generators that include the same, as well as systems and kits thereof and methods of using the same, e.g., in pacing applications, including cardiac resynchronization therapy (CRT) applications.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 29, 2008
    Date of Patent: May 29, 2012
    Assignee: Proteus Biomedical, Inc.
    Inventors: Haifeng Li, Mark Zdeblick, Lawrence Arne, Yafei Bi, Nilay Jani, Jonathan Withrington
  • Publication number: 20120116201
    Abstract: A device for gathering data has first and second electrodes. The first electrode is coupled to a surface of interest, and the second electrode is coupled to “everything else” or “the air”. The first electrode is shielded from the second, and from most sources of parasitic capacitance, by a shield that is driven by an active driver that drives the shield to track, and ideally to match, the instantaneous potential of the electrode. The second electrode is likewise shielded in a similar way from most sources of parasitic capacitance. These shields likewise help to limit the extent to which RFI from the device electronics couples with either of the electrodes. In this way the sensing device achieves a markedly better signal-to-noise ratio at frequency bands of interest.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 28, 2011
    Publication date: May 10, 2012
    Inventors: Mark Zdeblick, James Hutchison, Lawrence Arne
  • Publication number: 20120109112
    Abstract: An ingestible therapy activator system and method are provided. In one aspect, the ingestible therapy activator includes an ingestible device having an effector module to send an effector instruction and a responder module associated with a therapeutic device. The responder module may receive and process the effector instruction, resulting in a response by the therapeutic device. Examples of responses by therapeutic device include activating a therapy, deactivating a therapy, modulating a therapy, and discontinuing a therapy.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 8, 2011
    Publication date: May 3, 2012
    Inventors: Mark Zdeblick, Marc Jensen, Olivier Colliou, Angela Strand
  • Publication number: 20120101430
    Abstract: Receivers, which may be external or implantable, are provided. Aspects of receivers of the invention include the presence of one or more of: a high power-low power module; an intermediary module; a power supply module configured to activate and deactivate one or more power supplies to a high power processing block; a serial peripheral interface bus connecting master and slave blocks; and a multi-purpose connector. Receivers of the invention may be configured to receive a conductively transmitted signal. Also provided are systems that include the receivers, as well as methods of using the same. Additionally systems and methods are disclosed for using a receiver for coordinating with dosage delivery systems.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 23, 2011
    Publication date: April 26, 2012
    Inventors: Timothy Robertson, Fataneh Omidvar, Yashar Behzadi, Lawrence Arne, Kenneth Rowberry, James Hutchison, Robert Leichner, George Savage, Andrew Thompson, Mark Zdeblick, Marc Kreidler, Hooman Hafezi, Robert Duck
  • Publication number: 20120095355
    Abstract: Each sensor in one or more pairs of sensors is associated with a particular tissue, for example a first tissue location and a second tissue location respectively. Tissue at a particular tissue location may be solid, for example, muscle tissue, fat tissue, etc., or fluid, for example, blood, fluids associated with edema, etc. The area between the two tissue locations associated with a pair of sensors may comprise solid tissue, fluid tissue, an empty chamber, or combinations thereof. For each pair of sensors in the at least one pair of sensors, a first impedance measurement between the pair of sensors and associated with a first frequency is determined. For each pair of sensors in the at least one pair of sensors, a second impedance measurement between the pair of sensors and associated with a second frequency is determined.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 13, 2010
    Publication date: April 19, 2012
    Applicant: PROTEUS BIOMEDICAL, INC.
    Inventor: Mark Zdeblick