Patents by Inventor Nimra Taqi

Nimra Taqi 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).

  • Portable negative pressure ventilation device and methods and software related thereto
    Patent number: 8571663
    Abstract: Featured is an apparatus an apparatus including a monitoring and sensing means, an electrode patch and a control device operably coupled to each of the sensing means and the electrodes and outputs signals to the electrodes for purposes of stimulating the phrenic nerve to thereby cause breathing by natural contraction of the diaphragm. The control device is configured and arranged to initially localize the phrenic nerve with respect to a given set of electrodes that is effective, when appropriately energized, for stimulating the phrenic nerve to establish negative pressure induced respiration in the body, based on the output signal(s) from the monitoring and sensing means. After such initially localizing; the control device thereafter repetitively outputs stimulation signals via the given set of electrodes so as to thereby continuously stimulate negative pressure induced respiration. Also featured are methods related thereto.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 4, 2009
    Date of Patent: October 29, 2013
    Assignee: The Johns Hopkins University
    Inventors: Myron Weisfeldt, Soumyadipta Acharya, Courtney C. Haswell, Hargun S. Khanna, Yun Long, Vanessa C. Pau, Girish K. Singhal, Nimra Taqi, Lu Zhao
  • PORTABLE NEGATIVE PRESSURE VENTILATION DEVICE AND METHODS AND SOFTWARE RELATED THERETO
    Publication number: 20110190845
    Abstract: Featured is an apparatus an apparatus including a monitoring and sensing means, an electrode patch and a control device operably coupled to each of the sensing means and the electrodes and outputs signals to the electrodes for purposes of stimulating the phrenic nerve to thereby cause breathing by natural contraction of the diaphragm. The control device is configured and arranged to initially localize the phrenic nerve with respect to a given set of electrodes that is effective, when appropriately energized, for stimulating the phrenic nerve to establish negative pressure induced respiration in the body, based on the output signal(s) from the monitoring and sensing means. After such initially localizing; the control device thereafter repetitively outputs stimulation signals via the given set of electrodes so as to thereby continuously stimulate negative pressure induced respiration. Also featured are methods related thereto.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 4, 2009
    Publication date: August 4, 2011
    Applicant: THE JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY
    Inventors: Myron Weisfeldt, Soumyadipta Acharya, Courtney C. Haswell, Hargun S. Khanna, Yun Long, Vanessa C. Pau, Girish K. Singhal, Nimra Taqi, Lu Zhao