Patents by Inventor Peter M. Galen

Peter M. Galen 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: 20230240602
    Abstract: This disclosure is directed to devices, systems, and techniques for monitoring one or more patient conditions. For example, a system includes a memory and processing circuitry communicatively coupled to the memory. The processing circuitry is configured to receive, from a sensor, an electrical representation of a first optical signal and control a pressure device to apply pressure to the patient in order to affect one or more physiological parameters proximate to the sensor. Additionally, the processing circuitry is configured to receive, from the sensor after applying the pressure to the patient, an electrical representation of a second optical signal; and determine, based on the electrical representation of the first optical signal and the electrical representation of the second optical signal, one or more patient conditions.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 9, 2023
    Publication date: August 3, 2023
    Inventors: Derek L. Moody, Jacob D. Dove, Paul S. Addison, Rakesh K. Sethi, Peter M. Galen
  • Publication number: 20230233117
    Abstract: A light sensing device includes a first light source configured to emit light within a first wavelength range, a second light source configured to emit light within a second wavelength range, detector circuitry, a first photodetector in the detector circuitry configured to detect the light within the first wavelength range, and a second photodetector in the detector circuitry configured to detect the light within the second wavelength range. The first photodetector and the second photodetector are in parallel in the detector circuitry such that the detector circuitry sums electrical signals outputted by the first photodetector and the second photodetector.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 20, 2023
    Publication date: July 27, 2023
    Inventors: Derek L. Moody, Jacob D. Dove, Paul S. Addison, Rakesh K. Sethi, Peter M. Galen, Linden Reustle
  • Patent number: 8348852
    Abstract: A method for acquiring, externally or internally, for utility purposes a subject's anatomical heart-sound information including (a) for a selected time period, applying continuous, near-sensor-mechanical-resonance, vibratory stimulation to an acoustic sensor placed on or within the subject's anatomy, and (b) during that time period, detecting, as direct indications of heart sounds, changes in the sensor's physical resonance properties produced by heart sounds arriving at the sensor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 25, 2008
    Date of Patent: January 8, 2013
    Assignee: Inovise Medical, Inc.
    Inventors: Peter T. Bauer, Peter M. Galen, Martin Baumer
  • Publication number: 20120066322
    Abstract: A computer-network-based methodology and system for enhancing user control over the storage and transfer of user-personal information data in a network setting which includes both control-distant and control-near, information-data storage sites, and where user-personal information data which the user wishes to move may be held in the control-distant storage site. The methodology, implemented by the associated system, features enabling direct, user-control-access to any user-personal information data which is held in the control-distant storage site, and following such enabling, and under direct user-permitted command, promoting user-command transfer of at least a selected portion of the user-personal information data which is held in the control-distant storage site from the control-distant storage site to the control-near storage site.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 14, 2011
    Publication date: March 15, 2012
    Applicant: Veragen, Inc.
    Inventors: Tzu-Chieh Yang, Peter M. Galen, Norman S. Kato
  • Publication number: 20090227886
    Abstract: A method for acquiring, externally or internally, for utility purposes a subject's anatomical heart-sound information including (a) for a selected time period, applying continuous, near-sensor-mechanical-resonance, vibratory stimulation to an acoustic sensor placed on or within the subject's anatomy, and (b) during that time period, detecting, as direct indications of heart sounds, changes in the sensor's physical resonance properties produced by heart sounds arriving at the sensor.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 25, 2008
    Publication date: September 10, 2009
    Inventors: Peter T. Bauer, Peter M. Galen, Martin Baumer
  • Patent number: 7174203
    Abstract: A method and a system for monitoring and characterizing a person's heart condition for various medically related purposes. The method includes the steps of (a) acquiring a selected person's acoustic heart signature, (b) acquiring, substantially simultaneously, that same person's electrical heart signature, (c) choosing elements of determined interest from these two acquired signatures and selectively processing and inter- and/or cross-relating such elements, and (d) employing the results of the relating step to create a heart-condition fingerprint useful in the characterization of that person's heart condition.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 18, 2004
    Date of Patent: February 6, 2007
    Assignee: Inovise Medical, Inc.
    Inventors: Patricia A. Arand, Peter T. Bauer, Peter M. Galen, Robert A. Warner
  • Patent number: 7110804
    Abstract: A combined audio and electrical anatomy-signal sensor which is designed to collect, essentially from a selected, common anatomical site, related audio and electrical anatomical signals, such as heart-produced signals. The sensor includes a unique body structure which is designed to function both as a part of the audio-information gathering structure, and as a part of electrical electrode structure for gathering electrical signals. Chamber space is provided within this body for receiving and containing desired electrical circuitry, in the form of circuit-board-supported electrical components, which may be designed to perform any one of a number of different functions relative to signal gathering and transferring at and from an anatomical site.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 24, 2003
    Date of Patent: September 19, 2006
    Assignee: Inovise Medical, Inc.
    Inventors: Martin Baumer, Peter M. Galen, Steven A. Mahoney, Jagtar S. Saroya
  • Patent number: 7065397
    Abstract: ECG-related adaptor/sensor structure and methodology which enables various selectable operational communication to occur both unidirectionally and bidirectionally between the adaptor/sensor structure, and remote structure which is intended to receive ECG-related physiologic data from the adaptor/sensor structure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 18, 2002
    Date of Patent: June 20, 2006
    Assignee: Inovise Medical, Inc.
    Inventors: Peter M. Galen, Martin Baumer
  • Patent number: 7010342
    Abstract: A sensor designed to collect and convey single-site-related, body-produced electrical and acoustic signals, such as those related to heart activity, where electrical electrode and audio transducer structures lie along a common axis. A portion of the electrical electrode structure forms an acoustic isolating shroud around the audio transducer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 14, 2003
    Date of Patent: March 7, 2006
    Assignee: Inovise Medical, Inc.
    Inventors: Peter M. Galen, David B. Swedlow, Steven A. Mahoney, Martin Baumer
  • Patent number: 6947789
    Abstract: Algorithms for detecting, sizing and locating old myocardial infarcts by evaluating particular ECG lead data derived from selected ECG leads, where that particular data is presented hierarchically for review and confirmation, and includes selected voltage-amplitude ratios of R/Q and R/S. For a given human subject, the specific hierarchical pattern of lead data to be examined is selected on the basis of predetermined personal and demographic data, and completely in light of various, well-known, so-called confounders and excluders.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 13, 2001
    Date of Patent: September 20, 2005
    Assignee: Innovise Medical, Inc.
    Inventors: Ronald H. Selvester, Peter M. Galen, Joseph C. Solomon, Patti A. Arand
  • Publication number: 20040220486
    Abstract: A releasably interconnectible, signal-communicative interface between an anatomical signal sensor and an associated receiving coupler-adapter. Through complementary male and female interconnection structures, this interface is designed to accommodate both a mechanical, and an electrical, releasably locked cross-connection between such a sensor and a coupler-adapter. Spring-biased cam-interengaging interface components, including a cam surface on the sensor, and a pair of relatively moveable opposed clamping arms on the coupler-adapter operate, during the act of connection, to draw a sensor projection into a connected condition within a socket provided in the coupler-adapter. A springy, electrically conductive component in the adapter plays both mechanical and electrical roles in relation to operation of the interface.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 29, 2003
    Publication date: November 4, 2004
    Applicant: Inovise Medical, Inc.
    Inventors: Martin Baumer, Peter M. Galen, Steven A. Mahoney, Jagtar S. Saroya
  • Publication number: 20040214478
    Abstract: A coupler-adapter which is employable in an anatomical signal path that extends between an anatomical signal sensor, such as an ECG electrical sensor, including one which may also be designed to collect audio information, and external signal-reception structure. The couple-adapter includes body structure which may be directly connected to such a sensor, and which includes plural sensor reception regions that are configured to receive and accommodate, mechanically and electrically, plural different types of such sensors.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 24, 2003
    Publication date: October 28, 2004
    Applicant: Inovise Medical, Inc.
    Inventors: Martin Baumer, Peter M. Galen, Steven A. Mahoney, Jagtar S. Saroya
  • Publication number: 20040215094
    Abstract: A combined audio and electrical anatomy-signal sensor which is designed to collect, essentially from a selected, common anatomical site, related audio and electrical anatomical signals, such as heart-produced signals. The sensor includes a unique body structure which is designed to function both as a part of the audio-information gathering structure, and as a part of electrical electrode structure for gathering electrical signals. Chamber space is provided within this body for receiving and containing desired electrical circuitry, in the form of circuit-board-supported electrical components, which may be designed to perform any one of a number of different functions relative to signal gathering and transferring at and from an anatomical site.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 24, 2003
    Publication date: October 28, 2004
    Applicant: Inovise Medical, Inc.
    Inventors: Martin Baumer, Peter M. Galen, Steven A. Mahoney, Jagtar S. Saroya
  • Patent number: 6778852
    Abstract: A method and system for presenting time-based, comparative, patient-specific ECG data in various presentation formats, wherein color-coding is employed as a visual device to communicate vividly different, selected “changed” characteristics in that patient's current ECG-detected status.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 13, 2003
    Date of Patent: August 17, 2004
    Assignee: Inovise Medical, Inc.
    Inventors: Peter M. Galen, Damon J. Coffman, Robert A. Warner
  • Publication number: 20030176802
    Abstract: A method and system for presenting time-based, comparative, patient-specific ECG data in various presentation formats, wherein color-coding is employed as a visual device to communicate vividly different, selected “changed” characteristics in that patient's current ECG-detected status.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 13, 2003
    Publication date: September 18, 2003
    Applicant: Inovise Medical, Inc.
    Inventors: Peter M. Galen, Damon J. Coffman, Robert A. Warner
  • Publication number: 20030176800
    Abstract: A sensor designed to collect and convey single-site-related, body-produced electrical and acoustic signals, such as those related to heart activity, where electrical electrode and audio transducer structures lie along a common axis. A portion of the electrical electrode structure forms an acoustic isolating shroud around the audio transducer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 14, 2003
    Publication date: September 18, 2003
    Applicant: Inovise Medical, Inc.
    Inventors: Peter M. Galen, David B. Swedlow, Steven A. Mahoney, Martin Baumer
  • Publication number: 20030176801
    Abstract: Small-scale sensor structure attachable to a person's anatomy for collecting and conveying physiologically-related electrical and audio signals, including the conveying of processed output signals that relate input electrical and audio signals.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 14, 2003
    Publication date: September 18, 2003
    Applicant: Inovise Medical, Inc.
    Inventors: Peter M. Galen, David B. Swedlow, Damon J. Coffman, Robert A. Warner
  • Publication number: 20030105404
    Abstract: Method and apparatus employing transducers for collection multi-parameter ECG-related data and for supplying all categories of that data exclusively, and in certain different ways, over only conventional ECG lead conductors.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 18, 2002
    Publication date: June 5, 2003
    Inventors: Peter M. Galen, Martin Baumer
  • Publication number: 20030105406
    Abstract: A system involving disconnectably connectable sensor and adaptor units which can be employed to allow for the collection and communication, along with ECG data, of other physiologic parameter data whose condition is helpful in a evaluating communicative ECG data. Connection between the adaptor and sensor units of the invention effects the establishment of circuitry which allows (a) for the use of conventional ECG lead conductors alone to be responsible for carrying all categories of data, (b) for providing fail-safe communication of ECG data, and (c) for defining through different interfacial connective structures the actual characters of other-parameter data that will be communicated outwardly from a subject.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 18, 2002
    Publication date: June 5, 2003
    Inventors: Peter M. Galen, Martin Baumer, Steven A. Mahoney
  • Publication number: 20030105405
    Abstract: ECG-related adaptor/sensor structure and methodology which enables various selectable operational communication to occur both unidirectionally and bidirectionally between the adaptor/sensor structure, and remote structure which is intended to receive ECG-related physiologic data from the adaptor/sensor structure.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 18, 2002
    Publication date: June 5, 2003
    Inventors: Peter M. Galen, Martin Baumer