Patents by Inventor Raymond Peck
Raymond Peck 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: 20240050737Abstract: The present invention provides an advancement in the art of cardiac pacemakers. The invention provides a novel and unobvious pacemaker system that comprises at least one pacemaker and that is, to a large extent, self-controlled, allows for long-term implantation in a patient, and minimizes current inconveniences and problems associated with battery life. The invention further includes a mechanism in which at least two pacemakers are implanted in a patient, and in which the pacemakers communicate with each other at the time of a given pacing or respiratory event, without any required external input, and adjust pacing parameters to respond to the patient's need for blood flow. The invention further provides a novel design for a pacemaker in which the pacemaker electrode is connected to the pacemaker body by a lead that is configured to allow the pacemaker to lie parallel to the epicardial surface and to reduce stress on the pacemaker and heart tissue.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 15, 2023Publication date: February 15, 2024Inventors: Yaniv Bar-Cohen, Gerald Loeb, Li Zhou, Raymond Peck, Steven Nutt
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Patent number: 11724104Abstract: The present invention provides an advancement in the art of cardiac pacemakers. The invention provides a novel and unobvious pacemaker system that comprises at least one pacemaker and that is, to a large extent, self-controlled, allows for long-term implantation in a patient, and minimizes current inconveniences and problems associated with battery life. The invention further includes a mechanism in which at least two pacemakers are implanted in a patient, and in which the pacemakers communicate with each other at the time of a given pacing or respiratory event, without any required external input, and adjust pacing parameters to respond to the patient's need for blood flow. The invention further provides a novel design for a pacemaker in which the pacemaker electrode is connected to the pacemaker body by a lead that is configured to allow the pacemaker to lie parallel to the epicardial surface and to reduce stress on the pacemaker and heart tissue.Type: GrantFiled: June 1, 2021Date of Patent: August 15, 2023Assignees: CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL LOS ANGELES, UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIAInventors: Yaniv Bar-Cohen, Gerald Loeb, Li Zhou, Raymond Peck, Steven Nutt
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Publication number: 20220054826Abstract: The present invention provides an advancement in the art of cardiac pacemakers. The invention provides a novel and unobvious pacemaker system that comprises at least one pacemaker and that is, to a large extent, self-controlled, allows for long-term implantation in a patient, and minimizes current inconveniences and problems associated with battery life. The invention further includes a mechanism in which at least two pacemakers are implanted in a patient, and in which the pacemakers communicate with each other at the time of a given pacing or respiratory event, without any required external input, and adjust pacing parameters to respond to the patient's need for blood flow. The invention further provides a novel design for a pacemaker in which the pacemaker electrode is connected to the pacemaker body by a lead that is configured to allow the pacemaker to lie parallel to the epicardial surface and to reduce stress on the pacemaker and heart tissue.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 1, 2021Publication date: February 24, 2022Inventors: Yaniv Bar-Cohen, Gerald Loeb, Li Zhou, Raymond Peck, Steven Nutt
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Patent number: 11138671Abstract: Proposed is an adaptive, layered, automated risk-transfer system and method thereof, with a self-optimizing, increased leveraged capacity and enhanced drop-down cover structure with a plurality of adjustable risk-transfer layers. If a triggered risk-event is assignable to either of the top risk-transfer layer or the bottom risk-transfer layer of the drop-down cover structure, a shared exhaustion factor is generated based on the assigned risk-transfer layer and based on a cover of the loss associated with the triggered risk event. The shared exhaustion factor is applied mutually to both layers by the system eroding both layers by the same exhaustion factor. The top layer and the bottom layer are reinstatable by a corresponding generated normalized reinstatement parameter values normalized over both layers and based on a thus provided shared limit and the erosion of the top layer and the bottom layer.Type: GrantFiled: July 25, 2017Date of Patent: October 5, 2021Assignee: Swiss Reinsurance Company Ltd.Inventors: Philip Edward Schoen, Alexander Raymond Peck, Andreas Schäfli
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Patent number: 11020588Abstract: The present invention provides advancements in the art of cardiac pacemakers. The invention provides a pacemaker system that comprises at least one pacemaker and that is, to a large extent, self-controlled, allows for long-term implantation in a patient, and minimizes current inconveniences and problems associated with battery life. The invention further includes a mechanism in which at least two pacemakers are implanted in a patient, and in which the pacemakers communicate with each other at the time of a given pacing or respiratory event, without any required external input, and adjust pacing parameters to respond to the patient's need for blood flow. The invention further provides a design for a pacemaker in which the pacemaker electrode is connected to the pacemaker body by a lead that is configured to allow the pacemaker to lie parallel to the epicardial surface and to reduce stress on the pacemaker and heart tissue.Type: GrantFiled: May 8, 2014Date of Patent: June 1, 2021Assignees: CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL LOS ANGELES, UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIAInventors: Yaniv Bar-Cohen, Gerald Loeb, Li Zhou, Raymond Peck, Steven Nutt
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Publication number: 20180276759Abstract: Proposed is an adaptive, layered, automated risk-transfer system and method thereof, with a self-optimizing, increased leveraged capacity and enhanced drop-down cover structure with a plurality of adjustable risk-transfer layers. If a triggered risk-event is assignable to either of the top risk-transfer layer or the bottom risk-transfer layer of the drop-down cover structure, a shared exhaustion factor is generated based on the assigned risk-transfer layer and based on a cover of the loss associated with the triggered risk event. The shared exhaustion factor is applied mutually to both layers by the system eroding both layers by the same exhaustion factor. The top layer and the bottom layer are reinstatable by a corresponding generated normalized reinstatement parameter values normalized over both layers and based on a thus provided shared limit and the erosion of the top layer and the bottom layer.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 25, 2017Publication date: September 27, 2018Applicant: Swiss Reinsurance Company Ltd.Inventors: Philip Edward SCHOEN, Alexander Raymond PECK, Andreas SCHAFLI
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Patent number: 9987417Abstract: In various embodiments, a tool is employed in filling a drug-delivery device. The tool may include, for example, a needle that is admitted through a fill port of the drug-delivery device.Type: GrantFiled: May 7, 2015Date of Patent: June 5, 2018Assignee: MINIPUMPS, LLCInventors: Jason Shih, Yu-Chong Tai, Changlin Pang, Sean Caffey, Raymond Peck, Fukang Jiang, Mark Humayun
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Publication number: 20160228713Abstract: The present invention provides advancements in the art of cardiac pacemakers. The invention provides a pacemaker system that comprises at least one pacemaker and that is, to a large extent, self-controlled, allows for long-term implantation in a patient, and minimizes current inconveniences and problems associated with battery life. The invention further includes a mechanism in which at least two pacemakers are implanted in a patient, and in which the pacemakers communicate with each other at the time of a given pacing or respiratory event, without any required external input, and adjust pacing parameters to respond to the patient's need for blood flow. The invention further provides a design for a pacemaker in which the pacemaker electrode is connected to the pacemaker body by a lead that is configured to allow the pacemaker to lie parallel to the epicardial surface and to reduce stress on the pacemaker and heart tissue.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 8, 2014Publication date: August 11, 2016Applicants: CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL LOS ANGELES, UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIAInventors: Yaniv BAR-COHEN, Gerald LOEB, Li ZHOU, Raymond PECK, Stephen NUTT
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Patent number: 9341275Abstract: Elastomeric check valves for use, e.g., in small pump devices, may include a molded elastomeric valve body forming a pocket that extends from an opening at the valve inlet to a terminus inside the valve body, and having a slit extending from the terminus to a valve outlet.Type: GrantFiled: September 15, 2011Date of Patent: May 17, 2016Assignee: MiniPumps, LLCInventors: Raymond Peck, Po-Ying Li, Changlin Pang, Jason Shih
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Publication number: 20150314064Abstract: In various embodiments, a tool is employed in filling a drug-delivery device. The tool may include, for example, a needle that is admitted through a fill port of the drug-delivery device.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 7, 2015Publication date: November 5, 2015Inventors: Jason Shih, Yu-Chong Tai, Changlin Pang, Sean Caffey, Raymond Peck, Fukang Jiang, Mark Humayun
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Patent number: 9162024Abstract: Embodiments of an implantable electrolytic pump include a drug reservoir, a cannula fluidly coupled to the reservoir, a pumping mechanism for forcing liquid from the reservoir through the cannula, control circuitry for operating the pumping mechanism, and a power source comprising primary and auxiliary batteries in a stacked configuration, only the main battery being operatively coupled to the control circuitry during normal operation, the control circuitry operatively coupling the back-up battery upon detection of an electrical fault. The pump may further include a hermetic enclosure containing the control circuitry and the power source.Type: GrantFiled: May 8, 2009Date of Patent: October 20, 2015Assignee: MiniPumps, LLCInventors: Changlin Pang, Fukang Jiang, Jason Shih, Sean Caffey, Mark Humayun, Yu-Chong Tai, Jeffrey Brennan, Raymond Peck
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Patent number: 9080918Abstract: A compliant tactile sensor may include sponge-like material, a flexible skin, and a fluid pressure sensor. The flexible skin may have a shape, absorb fluid, compress in response to force applied to the sponge-like material, and decompress and return to its original shape when the force is removed. The flexible skin may cover an outer surface of the sponge-like material. The fluid pressure sensor may sense changes in pressure in fluid that is within the sponge-like material caused by a force applied to the flexible skin. A robotic system may include a movable robotic arm, a compliant tactile sensor on the movable robotic arm that senses contact between the compliant tactile sensor and an object during movement of the movable robotic arm and that cushions the effect of that contact, and a reflex system that causes the moveable robotic arm to move in response to commands.Type: GrantFiled: September 9, 2013Date of Patent: July 14, 2015Assignee: SynTouch LLCInventors: Jeremy A. Fishel, Gerald E. Loeb, Raymond A. Peck, Chia-Hsien Lin, Blaine Matulevich, Vikram Pandit
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Patent number: 9050407Abstract: In various embodiments, a tool is employed in filling a drug-delivery device. The tool may include, for example, a needle that is admitted through a fill port of the drug-delivery device.Type: GrantFiled: December 10, 2012Date of Patent: June 9, 2015Assignee: MINIPUMPS, LLCInventors: Jason Shih, Changlin Pang, Fukang Jiang, Sean Caffey, Mark Humayun, Yu-Chong Tai, Raymond Peck
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Publication number: 20140069212Abstract: A compliant tactile sensor may include sponge-like material, a flexible skin, and a fluid pressure sensor. The flexible skin may have a shape, absorb fluid, compress in response to force applied to the sponge-like material, and decompress and return to its original shape when the force is removed. The flexible skin may cover an outer surface of the sponge-like material. The fluid pressure sensor may sense changes in pressure in fluid that is within the sponge-like material caused by a force applied to the flexible skin. A robotic system may include a movable robotic arm, a compliant tactile sensor on the movable robotic arm that senses contact between the compliant tactile sensor and an object during movement of the movable robotic arm and that cushions the effect of that contact, and a reflex system that causes the moveable robotic arm to move in response to commands.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 9, 2013Publication date: March 13, 2014Applicant: SynTouch, LLCInventors: Jeremy A. Fishel, Gerald E. Loeb, Raymond A. Peck, Chia-Hsien Lin, Blaine Matulevich, Vikram Pandit
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Patent number: 8348897Abstract: In various embodiments, a tool is employed in filling a drug-delivery device. The tool may include, for example, a needle that is admitted through a fill port of the drug-delivery device.Type: GrantFiled: May 8, 2009Date of Patent: January 8, 2013Assignee: MiniPumps, LLCInventors: Jason Shih, Changlin Pang, Fukang Jiang, Sean Caffey, Mark Humayun, Yu-Chong Tai, Raymond Peck
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Patent number: 8272278Abstract: Tactile sensors are disclosed that mimic the human fingertip and its touch receptors. The mechanical components are similar to a fingertip, with a rigid core surrounded by a weakly conductive fluid contained within an elastomeric skin. The deformable properties of the finger pad can be used as part of a transduction process. Multiple electrodes can be mounted on the surface of the rigid core and connected to impedance measuring circuitry within the core. External forces deform the fluid path around the electrodes, resulting in a distributed pattern of impedance changes containing information about those forces and the objects that applied them. Strategies are described for extracting features related to the mechanical inputs and using this information for reflexive grip control. Controlling grip force in a prosthetic having sensory feedback information is described. Techniques are described for enhancing the useful force range for impedance sensors by internally texturing the elastomeric skin.Type: GrantFiled: April 2, 2009Date of Patent: September 25, 2012Assignee: University of Southern CaliforniaInventors: Gerald E. Loeb, Nicholas Wettels, Jeremy Fishel, Chia Hsien (Gary) Lin, Veronica J. Santos, Raymond Peck
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Publication number: 20120234433Abstract: A tool for refilling an implantable pump having at least one reservoir. The tool includes a plurality of independent fluid channels; a fluid reservoir in fluid communication with a first one of the fluid channels; at least one pump fluidly coupled to the fluid channels, the at least one pump and the independent fluid channels differing from each other in number, wherein (i) a pump is configured to apply positive pressure to the first fluid channel so as to drive fluid from the fluid reservoir therethrough, and (ii) a pump is configured to apply negative pressure to the second fluid channel; and a connector for removably connecting the fluid channels to the at least one reservoir.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 14, 2012Publication date: September 20, 2012Inventors: Jason Shih, Sean Caffey, Mark Humayun, Fukang Jiang, Changlin Pang, Raymond Peck, Yu-Chong Tai
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Publication number: 20120211095Abstract: Elastomeric check valves for use, e.g., in small pump devices, may include a molded elastomeric valve body forming a pocket that extends from an opening at the valve inlet to a terminus inside the valve body, and having a slit extending from the terminus to a valve outlet.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 15, 2011Publication date: August 23, 2012Inventors: Raymond Peck, Po-Ying Li, Changlin Pang, Jason Shih
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Patent number: 8181540Abstract: Tactile sensors are disclosed that mimic the human fingertip and its touch receptors. The mechanical components are similar to a fingertip, with a rigid core surrounded by a weakly conductive fluid contained within an elastomeric skin. The deformable properties of the finger pad can be used as part of a transduction process. Multiple electrodes can be mounted on the surface of the rigid core and connected to impedance measuring circuitry within the core. External forces deform the fluid path around the electrodes, resulting in a distributed pattern of impedance changes containing information about those forces and the objects that applied them. Strategies are described for extracting features related to the mechanical inputs and using this information for reflexive grip control. Controlling grip force in a prosthetic having sensory feedback information is described. Pressure transducers can provide sensory feedback by measuring micro-vibrations due to sliding friction.Type: GrantFiled: April 2, 2009Date of Patent: May 22, 2012Assignee: University of Southern CaliforniaInventors: Gerald E. Loeb, Jeremy Fishel, Nicholas Wettels, Veronica J. Santos, Raymond Peck
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Patent number: D629503Type: GrantFiled: September 16, 2009Date of Patent: December 21, 2010Inventors: Sean Caffey, Fukang Jiang, Changlin Pang, Jason Shih, Jeffrey Brennan, Raymond Peck, Michelle Journey