Patents by Inventor Peter Douglas Colin Inglis
Peter Douglas Colin Inglis 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).
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Publication number: 20240090751Abstract: A steerable endoscope system is provided with an augmented view. An augmented reality display includes a rendered model of an anatomical structure corresponding to a patient anatomy pinned in the field of view, an endoscope marker moving through the virtual model, and an image from an endoscope at a location within the patient anatomy.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 30, 2023Publication date: March 21, 2024Applicant: Covidien AGInventors: Peter Douglas Colin Inglis, Derek Scot Tata
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Patent number: 11896197Abstract: An electrical device includes a memory storing a value indicative the remaining available rated capacity of one or more batteries. The stored value is changed in use to reflect reducing capacity. The initial stored value is chosen so that there is a very high (e.g. >99.9%) confidence that the one or more batteries will provide at least the capacity indicated by the initial stored value. This reduces the chance of failure during emergency procedures. The one or more batteries may be integral to the electrical device. An override facility is provided.Type: GrantFiled: June 23, 2021Date of Patent: February 13, 2024Assignee: Covidien AGInventors: Matthew John Ross McGrath, Peter Douglas Colin Inglis, Brian Alan Laffoley
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Patent number: 11871904Abstract: A steerable endoscope system is provided with an augmented view. An augmented reality display includes a rendered model of an anatomical structure corresponding to a patient anatomy pinned in the field of view, an endoscope marker moving through the virtual model, and an image from an endoscope at a location within the patient anatomy.Type: GrantFiled: November 4, 2020Date of Patent: January 16, 2024Inventors: Peter Douglas Colin Inglis, Derek Scot Tata
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Publication number: 20230420990Abstract: A wireless charging system for recharging batteries in a medical environment includes a charging station. The charging station may include an opening to receive batteries and an outlet for dispensing charged batteries, wherein the outlet comprises a slot in a front cover. The charging station also includes a wireless power transmitter having a transmitting antenna.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 7, 2023Publication date: December 28, 2023Applicant: COVIDIEN AGInventors: Michael Ng, Peter Douglas Colin Inglis, Jurgen Van Vlem, Jakob Struik
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Patent number: 11799322Abstract: A wireless charging system for recharging batteries in a medical environment includes a charging station. The charging station may include an opening to receive batteries and an outlet for dispensing charged batteries, wherein the outlet comprises a slot in a front cover. The charging station also includes a wireless power transmitter having a transmitting antenna.Type: GrantFiled: October 7, 2022Date of Patent: October 24, 2023Inventors: Michael Ng, Peter Douglas Colin Inglis, Jurgen Van Vlem, Jakob Struik
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Publication number: 20230292989Abstract: A steerable endoscope is provided with active steering control. An endoscope includes a flexible tubular body with first and second articulating segments, and a camera. In an embodiment, the endoscope includes an orientation sensor. A controller for the endoscope performs an automated analysis of an alignment between the motion axis of the endoscope and the viewing axis of the camera, and actively steers the endoscope to improve the alignment.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 30, 2023Publication date: September 21, 2023Applicant: Covidien AGInventors: Derek Scot Tata, Alexandra Hause, Peter Douglas Colin Inglis, Craig Allen Patton
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Publication number: 20230248235Abstract: A video laryngoscope including a display portion, a handle, and a camera assembly. The display portion includes a housing having a patient-facing side and a user-facing side. A display screen is disposed on the user-facing side and configured to display images captured by the camera assembly. An infrared window is disposed at another position on the video laryngoscope, such as on the patient-facing side of the housing. Infrared signals for pairing the video laryngoscope to other devices, such as monitors or external display screens, may be transmitted through the infrared window. For instance, an infrared receiver of the video laryngoscope may receive infrared signals through the infrared window and/or an infrared transmitter of the video laryngoscope may transmit infrared signals through the infrared window.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 26, 2023Publication date: August 10, 2023Applicant: Covidien LPInventors: Michael Ng, Peter Douglas Colin Inglis, Jürgen Van Vlem
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Publication number: 20230225605Abstract: A multifunctional laryngoscope is provided that includes a handle comprising a proximal end and a distal end and a display screen on the handle. The laryngoscope includes a laryngoscope camera at the distal end of the handle and an introducer comprising an orientation sensor at a distal end of the introducer. The laryngoscope includes a processor programmed to execute instructions for receiving from a steering input a steering command in a first reference frame, and mapping the steering command to a second reference frame oriented to the distal end of the introducer based on an orientation signal from the orientation sensor.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 17, 2023Publication date: July 20, 2023Applicant: Covidien AGInventors: Derek Scot Tata, Craig Allen Patton, Peter Douglas Colin Inglis
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Publication number: 20230218156Abstract: A multifunctional laryngoscope is provided that includes a handle comprising a proximal end and a distal end and a display screen on the handle. The laryngoscope includes a laryngoscope camera at the distal end of the handle and an introducer comprising an orientation sensor at a distal end of the introducer. The laryngoscope includes a processor programmed to execute instructions for receiving from a steering input a steering command in a first reference frame, and mapping the steering command to a second reference frame oriented to the distal end of the introducer based on an orientation signal from the orientation sensor.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 17, 2023Publication date: July 13, 2023Applicant: Covidien AGInventors: Derek Scot Tata, Craig Allen Patton, Peter Douglas Colin Inglis
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Patent number: 11696671Abstract: A steerable endoscope is provided with active steering control. An endoscope includes a flexible tubular body with first and second articulating segments, and a camera. In an embodiment, the endoscope includes an orientation sensor. A controller for the endoscope performs an automated analysis of an alignment between the motion axis of the endoscope and the viewing axis of the camera, and actively steers the endoscope to improve the alignment.Type: GrantFiled: August 17, 2020Date of Patent: July 11, 2023Assignee: Covidien AGInventors: Derek Scot Tata, Alexandra Hause, Peter Douglas Colin Inglis, Craig Allen Patton
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Patent number: 11684251Abstract: A multifunctional laryngoscope is provided that includes a handle comprising a proximal end and a distal end and a display screen on the handle. The laryngoscope includes a laryngoscope camera at the distal end of the handle and connects to an introducer comprising an orientation sensor at a distal end of the introducer. The laryngoscope includes a processor programmed to execute instructions for receiving from a steering input a steering command in a first reference frame, and mapping the steering command to a second reference frame oriented to the distal end of the introducer based on an orientation signal from the orientation sensor.Type: GrantFiled: February 26, 2020Date of Patent: June 27, 2023Inventors: Derek Scot Tata, Craig Allen Patton, Peter Douglas Colin Inglis
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Publication number: 20230136100Abstract: An endoscope automatic steering system is provided. An endoscope controller receives an image signal from an endoscope and identifies a passage based on the image signal. A steering controller selects a steering target within the passage and generates steering instructions to cause the endoscope to automatically steer towards the steering target.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 26, 2022Publication date: May 4, 2023Applicant: Covidien LPInventors: Derek Scot TATA, Peter Douglas Colin INGLIS
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Publication number: 20230124915Abstract: A video laryngoscope system acquires images that can, in embodiments, be recorded and stored in a memory of the video laryngoscope. In an embodiment, the video laryngoscope can be operated in an automatic recording mode, and the acquired images are recorded automatically with no further user input and stored in a memory of the video laryngoscope. If the video laryngoscope is paired to a wireless hub, the acquired images are automatically transferred to the wireless hub in response to a power off user input. Other recording modes may use manual inputs to initiate recording and storing of the acquired images.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 18, 2022Publication date: April 20, 2023Applicant: Covidien LPInventors: Alexandra R. HAUSE, Natalie I. JAGELSKI, Robert W. EIKEL, Derek Scot TATA, Peter Douglas Colin INGLIS, Nicholas ROBERTSON, Brittany W. ARMSTRONG
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Publication number: 20230124693Abstract: A video laryngoscope system includes one or more wireless hubs. A wireless hub of the system includes a transmitter that transmits a signal to a video laryngoscope to initiate wireless pairing of the wireless hub and the video laryngoscope. Upon wireless pairing, the video laryngoscope can stream acquired images to the wireless hub operating in a streaming operating mode or can transfer the acquired images to a memory of the wireless hub in a data transfer operating mode.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 18, 2022Publication date: April 20, 2023Applicant: Covidien LPInventors: Natalie I. JAGELSKI, Alexandra R. HAUSE, Peter Douglas Colin INGLIS, Michael NG, Brittany W. ARMSTRONG
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Publication number: 20230029630Abstract: A wireless charging system for recharging batteries in a medical environment includes a charging station. The charging station may include an opening to receive batteries and an outlet for dispensing charged batteries, wherein the outlet comprises a slot in a front cover. The charging station also includes a wireless power transmitter having a transmitting antenna.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 7, 2022Publication date: February 2, 2023Applicant: COVIDIEN AGInventors: Michael Ng, Peter Douglas Colin Inglis, Jurgen Van Vlem, Jakob Struik
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Patent number: 11510563Abstract: Disclosed is a laryngoscope insertion section having a curved superior surface, a curved inferior surface, and a channel extending from the proximal end the channel having an inferior surface with a greater curvature than the curvature of the inferior surface. The insertion section is compatible with laryngoscope hardware optimized for indirect viewing, yet enables direct viewing. The distance between the inferior and superior surfaces is at a maximum within the intermediate portion, and enables the dimensions of the proximal and distal portions to be minimized. Thus, the intermediate portion, located in the patient's oral cavity in use, is provided with greatest depth and strength where the greatest forces are received, whereas the distal and proximal portions are of reduced dimensions to minimize trauma to the patient's airway and mouth areas, respectively. Structural features providing the insertion section with improved strength, with a minimum of material and size, are also disclosed.Type: GrantFiled: August 11, 2020Date of Patent: November 29, 2022Assignee: Covidien AGInventors: Matthew John Ross McGrath, Peter Douglas Colin Inglis
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Patent number: 11502546Abstract: A wireless charging system for recharging batteries in a medical environment includes a charging station. The charging station may include an opening to receive batteries and an outlet for dispensing charged batteries, wherein the outlet comprises a slot in a front cover. The charging station also includes a wireless power transmitter having a transmitting antenna.Type: GrantFiled: February 2, 2021Date of Patent: November 15, 2022Assignee: COVIDIEN AGInventors: Michael Ng, Peter Douglas Colin Inglis, Jurgen Van Vlem, Jakob Struik
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Publication number: 20220354380Abstract: An endoscope navigation system is provided that updates an anatomy model based on a live camera signal. As the endoscope advances within the patient, a camera signal, and corresponding position signal, of the endoscope, is provided and used to update the anatomy model based on identified divergences between the camera signal at a particular position and anatomy model.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 12, 2022Publication date: November 10, 2022Applicant: COVIDIEN LPInventors: Derek Scot Tata, Peter Douglas Colin Inglis, Alexandra R. Hause
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Patent number: 11478126Abstract: A video laryngoscope and elongate laryngoscope insertion section for a video laryngoscope, comprising a viewing port through which an imaging device within the insertion section can obtain images of a larynx, the insertion section extending between a distal end for insertion into a subject and an opposite proximal end, and having an inferior surface and an opposed superior surface, wherein the insertion section comprises a proximal region where the insertion section extends through a subject's teeth in use, a distal region extending to the distal end and an intermediate region therebetween, wherein the inferior surface of the insertion section comprises or consists of a curved region which extends from the proximal region through the intermediate region to the distal region, wherein the curved region of the inferior surface is continuously longitudinally curved along the length of the longitudinally curved region and wherein the longitudinal curvature of the curved region of the inferior surface varies in theType: GrantFiled: October 7, 2019Date of Patent: October 25, 2022Assignee: Covidien AGInventors: Matthew John Ross McGrath, Peter Douglas Colin Inglis
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Publication number: 20220110504Abstract: A time-synchronized video imaging system includes an environmental camera that acquires environmental images of a patient while a video laryngoscope acquires airway images of the patient. A monitor receives the airway images from the video laryngoscope and the environmental images from the environmental camera. The monitor time-synchronizes the airway images and the environmental images to each other to generate a combined view video file of the time-synchronized airway images and environmental images to permit review of macro or environmental effects on a patient intubation.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 16, 2021Publication date: April 14, 2022Inventor: Peter Douglas Colin Inglis