Patents by Inventor Robert W. Biederman

Robert W. Biederman 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: 20170007188
    Abstract: A method of and system for determining ventricular ejection fraction of a patient is provided. A pressure sensing device captures pulmonary arterial pressure data for a patient over time. A processing device receives the pressure data, generates a first time-resolved pressure curve, displaces the pressure values of the first time-resolved curve at least one time point and subtracts the displaced pressure values from the received pressure data to form a second time-resolved pressure curve so that the second curve has two or more distinct pulses from which an initial pulse may be isolated and an area may be calculated. The processing device determines an average pressure by averaging the pressure data of the first curve over a cardiac cycle of data; determines a cardiac chamber stroke volume for the patient; and uses the determined cardiac chamber stroke volume and determined average pressure to determine an ejection fraction for the patient.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 11, 2016
    Publication date: January 12, 2017
    Inventors: Robert W. Biederman, Raymond L. Benza, Mark Doyle