Patents by Inventor Nipon Chattipakorn

Nipon Chattipakorn 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).

  • Methods and devices for treating arrhythmias using defibrillation shocks
    Publication number: 20030153951
    Abstract: The present invention includes both methods and apparatus for improving defibrillation. In particular, the present invention includes methods and devices for administering a calcium channel blocker and/or calmodulin kinase inhibitor that prevents afterdepolarizations and antiarrhythmic drugs to decrease the threshold shock from a therapeutic threshold shock.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 8, 2002
    Publication date: August 14, 2003
    Inventors: Raymond E. Ideker, Nipon Chattipakorn
  • Method and apparatus for rapidly predicting outcome of arrhythmia therapy
    Patent number: 6246908
    Abstract: A method for predicting the outcome of arrhythmia therapy in a subject in need thereof comprises the steps of: (a) detecting an arrhythmia in the heart of a subject; (b) delivering a first arrhythmia therapy pulse to the heart of the subject; and then (c) determining the presence or absence of overlapping cycles in the heart of the subject, the presence of overlapping cycles indicating that the first arrhythmia therapy pulse did not successfully treat the arrhythmia. Overlapping cycles are preferably determined through the calculation of an overlapping cycles index (OCI). Apparatus for carrying out the method is also disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 4, 2000
    Date of Patent: June 12, 2001
    Assignee: UAB Research Foundation
    Inventors: Nipon Chattipakorn, Raymond E. Ideker, Bruce H. KenKnight