Patents by Inventor Nancy Stoffel

Nancy Stoffel 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).

  • Patent number: 12138056
    Abstract: Various methods and systems are provided for a fabric cover including a plurality of integrated electrodes for measuring an electrocardiogram signal of a patient in direct contact with at least a subset of the plurality of integrate electrodes. As one example, a fabric cover for an infant incubator or warmer includes a plurality of electrodes spaced apart from one another within a measurement area of a surface of the fabric cover adapted to have direct contact with a patient, the plurality of electrodes including a topmost electrode extending across an entire width of the measurement area, a bottommost electrode extending across the entire width of the measurement area, and a set of electrodes arranged between the topmost electrode and bottommost electrode, in a direction perpendicular to the width, within the measurement area.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 15, 2023
    Date of Patent: November 12, 2024
    Assignee: GE PRECISION HEALTHCARE LLC
    Inventors: Thomas Valent, Nancy Stoffel, Mohammad Mohammad Khair, Steven Falk
  • Publication number: 20230320644
    Abstract: Various methods and systems are provided for a fabric cover including a plurality of integrated electrodes for measuring an electrocardiogram signal of a patient in direct contact with at least a subset of the plurality of integrate electrodes. As one example, a fabric cover for an infant incubator or warmer includes a plurality of electrodes spaced apart from one another within a measurement area of a surface of the fabric cover adapted to have direct contact with a patient, the plurality of electrodes including a topmost electrode extending across an entire width of the measurement area, a bottommost electrode extending across the entire width of the measurement area, and a set of electrodes arranged between the topmost electrode and bottommost electrode, in a direction perpendicular to the width, within the measurement area.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 15, 2023
    Publication date: October 12, 2023
    Inventors: Thomas Valent, Nancy Stoffel, Mohammad Mohammad Khair, Steven Falk
  • Patent number: 11717207
    Abstract: Various methods and systems are provided for a fabric cover including a plurality of integrated electrodes for measuring an electrocardiogram signal of a patient in direct contact with at least a subset of the plurality of integrate electrodes. As one example, a fabric cover for an infant incubator or warmer includes a plurality of electrodes spaced apart from one another within a measurement area of a surface of the fabric cover adapted to have direct contact with a patient, the plurality of electrodes including a topmost electrode extending across an entire width of the measurement area, a bottommost electrode extending across the entire width of the measurement area, and a set of electrodes arranged between the topmost electrode and bottommost electrode, in a direction perpendicular to the width, within the measurement area.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 13, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 8, 2023
    Assignee: GE Precision Healthcare LLC
    Inventors: Thomas Valent, Nancy Stoffel, Mohammad Mohammad Khair, Steven Falk
  • Publication number: 20200359923
    Abstract: Various methods and systems are provided for a fabric cover including a plurality of integrated electrodes for measuring an electrocardiogram signal of a patient in direct contact with at least a subset of the plurality of integrate electrodes. As one example, a fabric cover for an infant incubator or warmer includes a plurality of electrodes spaced apart from one another within a measurement area of a surface of the fabric cover adapted to have direct contact with a patient, the plurality of electrodes including a topmost electrode extending across an entire width of the measurement area, a bottommost electrode extending across the entire width of the measurement area, and a set of electrodes arranged between the topmost electrode and bottommost electrode, in a direction perpendicular to the width, within the measurement area.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 13, 2019
    Publication date: November 19, 2020
    Inventors: Thomas Valent, Nancy Stoffel, Mohammad Mohammad Khair, Steven Falk
  • Publication number: 20050167043
    Abstract: Disclosed is a process for forming fluidic ink passageways in actuation wafers for novel thermal ink jet printheads. The process comprises the steps of applying a thin coating of a heat-curable, photopatternable epoxy polymer composition to a lower substrate such as a heater wafer, and drying and photopatterning the coating to form a patterned, semi-solid adhesive layer. The layer and supporting substrate are pressed against the surface of a mating ink inlet substrate to bond the layer to the surface of the mating substrate without the need for a separate bonding layer. The present process simplifies and improves the prior known process by replacing the use of a photosensitive resin layer and a separate adhesive bonding layer with a single layer of an epoxy resin composition which is both photosensitive and adhesive, to eliminate the need for applying two separate layers and the concern that said layers have good bonding strength for their wafers and for each other.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 2, 2004
    Publication date: August 4, 2005
    Inventors: Nancy Stoffel, Almon Fisher