Patents by Inventor Scott A. Meyer

Scott A. Meyer 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).

  • METHOD OF BIOIMAGE DATA PROCESSING FOR REVEALING MORE MEANINGFUL ANATOMIC FEATURES OF DISEASED TISSUES
    Publication number: 20100226542
    Abstract: The present invention discloses a method for generating elevation maps or images of a tissue layer/boundary with respect to a fitted reference surface, comprising the steps of finding and segmenting a desired tissue layer/boundary; fitting a smooth reference surface to the segmented tissue layer/boundary; calculating elevations of the same or other tissue layer/boundary relative to the fitted reference surface; and generating maps of elevation relative to the fitted surface. The elevation can be displayed in various ways including three-dimensional surface renderings, topographical contour maps, contour maps, en-face color maps, and en-face grayscale maps. The elevation can also be combined and simultaneously displayed with another tissue layer/boundary dependent set of image data to provide additional information for diagnostics.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 19, 2010
    Publication date: September 9, 2010
    Applicant: Carl Zeiss Meditec, Inc.
    Inventors: Matthew J. Everett, Scott A. Meyer, Paul F. Stetson, Yan Zhou
  • Process chamber lid and controlled exhaust
    Patent number: 7775219
    Abstract: A method and apparatus for efficiently exhausting harmful vapors and fumes from a substrate processing chamber is described. The processing chamber includes a lower volume configured as a liquid atmosphere, and an upper volume configured as a gaseous atmosphere to at least partially contain vapors or fumes above the liquid. The apparatus includes a lid member configured to seal the processing chamber and a lid assembly adapted to provide processing liquids while exhausting the vapors or fumes from the processing chamber. Switchable valves and/or a variable source of negative pressure may be coupled to the lid assembly to provide a controlled exhaust. A method of preventing or minimizing the escape of fumes or vapors is also described.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 29, 2006
    Date of Patent: August 17, 2010
    Assignee: Applied Materials, Inc.
    Inventors: Victor B. Mimken, Scott Meyer, Douglas Richards, Evanson G. Baiya
  • Cardiac response classification using retriggerable classification windows
    Patent number: 7774064
    Abstract: Methods and devices for classifying a cardiac response to pacing involve establishing a retriggerable cardiac response classification window. A first cardiac response classification window is established subsequent to delivery of a pacing pulse. A cardiac signal following the pacing stimulation is sensed in the first classification window. A second cardiac response classification may be triggered if a trigger characteristic is detected in the first classification window. The cardiac signal is sensed in the second classification window if the second classification window is established. The cardiac response to the pacing stimulation is determined based on characteristics of the cardiac signal. The cardiac response may be determined to be one of a captured response, a non-captured response; a non-captured response added to an intrinsic beat, and a fusion/pseudofusion beat, for example.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 12, 2003
    Date of Patent: August 10, 2010
    Assignee: Cardiac Pacemakers, Inc.
    Inventors: Scott A. Meyer, Yanting Dong, Jeremy Maniak, Doug Birholz, John Voegele
  • Apparatus, systems and methods for online, multi-parcel, multi-carrier, multi-service enterprise parcel shipping management
    Patent number: 7774284
    Abstract: The present invention provides a plurality of Enterprises with a single online user interface with which the Enterprise can provide Enterprise Shippers, shipping origination users and shipping intermediary users with an automated parcel management system for a plurality of supported Carriers for a plurality of services. The present invention provides for the hierarchical definition of users, including the establishment of at least one user for each Enterprise as a Super-Administrator with the highest level of privileges and authority for the Enterprise, and the identification of other users as Sub-Administrators, Desktop Users and Shipping Station Users. The present invention also provides for the hierarchical definition of organizational units within each Enterprise, including the definition of sites, groups within a site, and users within a group.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 27, 2001
    Date of Patent: August 10, 2010
    Assignees: Stamps.com Inc., iShip Inc.
    Inventors: Daniel F. Williams, David Allison Bennett, Lynn Shaindell Goldhaber, Dennis Glavin, Lory Elizabeth Krett, Charles D. Mentzer, Stephen M. Teglovic, John M. Dietz, William W. Smith, III, Paul Bilibin, Jinyue Liu, Paul R. McLaughlin, Scott Meyer, Sean Hu
  • Methods and systems for managing fusion and noise in cardiac pacing response classification
    Patent number: 7765004
    Abstract: Methods and systems for detecting noise in cardiac pacing response classification processes involve determining that a cardiac response classification is possibly erroneous if unexpected signal content is detected. The unexpected signal content may comprise signal peaks that have polarity opposite to the polarity of peaks used to determine the cardiac response to pacing. Fusion/noise management processes include pacing at a relatively high energy level until capture is detected after a fusion, indeterminate, or possibly erroneous pacing response classification is made. The relatively high energy pacing pulses may be delivered until capture is detected or until a predetermined number of paces are delivered.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 28, 2005
    Date of Patent: July 27, 2010
    Assignee: Cardiac Pacemakers, Inc.
    Inventors: Kevin John Stalsberg, Yanting Dong, Scott A. Meyer, John Michael Voegele, Derek Daniel Bohn, Eric Keith Enrooth, Clayton Scott Foster, David William Yost
  • Capture verification with intrinsic response discrimination
    Patent number: 7761162
    Abstract: Approaches to automatically classifying a cardiac response to pacing involve discriminating between a captured response and non-capture with intrinsic activation. A capture detection system senses for morphological characteristics of a cardiac signal associated with the pacing pulse. The cardiac signal may be sensed using a defibrillation electrode during one or more time intervals following delivery of the pacing pulse. If a first characteristic of the cardiac signal achieves a threshold value, the system continues to sense the cardiac signal and detects a second characteristic. The cardiac pacing response is determined based on at least one of the first and the second cardiac signal characteristics.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 13, 2004
    Date of Patent: July 20, 2010
    Assignee: Cardiac Pacemakers, Inc.
    Inventors: Yanting Dong, Scott A. Meyer, Qingsheng Zhu
  • GRAPH STORE
    Publication number: 20100174692
    Abstract: A new database design is implemented in which everything in the database is modeled with primitives, including the links and nodes for a graph tuple store. A query syntax provides a nested tree of constraints with a single global schema. Various optimization techniques for queries and replication techniques are also described.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 20, 2010
    Publication date: July 8, 2010
    Inventors: Scott MEYER, Jutta Degener, Barak Michener, John Giannandrea
  • METHOD FOR DETERMINING THE POWER OF AN INTRAOCULAR LENS
    Publication number: 20100134763
    Abstract: For the pre-operative calculation of the power of an intraocular lens, three input parameters are needed: the axial length of the eye (AL), the refractive power of the cornea, and the distance between the front of the cornea and the back focal plane of the intraocular lens, the so-called effective lens position (ELP). The invention shows a novel approach to the determination of the ELP.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 3, 2009
    Publication date: June 3, 2010
    Applicant: Carl Zeiss Meditec AG
    Inventors: Rudolf Murai VON BÜNAU, Burkhard Wagner, Scott A. Meyer, Xunchang Chen
  • Methods and Systems for Selecting Capture Verification Modes
    Publication number: 20100131027
    Abstract: Methods and systems are directed to selecting from a variety of capture verification modes. A plurality of capture verification modes, including a beat by beat capture detection mode and a capture threshold testing mode without intervening beat by beat capture detection is provided. An efficacy of at least one of the capture verification modes is evaluated and, based on the evaluation, a capture verification mode is selected.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 1, 2010
    Publication date: May 27, 2010
    Inventors: Alok Sathaye, Scott A. Meyer, Derek D. Bohn
  • APPARATUS, SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR ONLINE, MULTI-PARCEL, MULTI-CARRIER, MULTI-SERVICE PARCEL RETURNS SHIPPING MANAGEMENT
    Publication number: 20100131420
    Abstract: The present invention provides a computer system (the “System”, or the “Return System”) that is configured and programmed to provide online stores with a fast, simple, convenient way for eCommerce customers of an online store to return merchandise purchased from that store from within that online store. The Return System provides multi-carrier shipment rating, shipment labeling, shipment tracking, shipment tracking management reports, returns analysis and returns management reporting In an exemplary embodiment, the Return System has three major components: 1.) A Returns Manager Subsystem that provides a user interface to each Merchant to setup the Merchant's account, setup the Merchant's return policy and rules, and to monitor the status and movement of return shipments; 2.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 25, 2009
    Publication date: May 27, 2010
    Inventors: Daniel F. Williams, David Allison Bennett, Lynn Shaindell Goldhaber, Dennis Glavin, Lory Elizabeth Krett, Charles D. Mentzer, Stephen M. Teglovic, John M, Dietz, William W. Smith, III, Paul Bilibin, Jinyue Liu, Paul R. McLaughlin, Scott Meyer, Sean Hu, Richard M. Antush, Scott Joseph Bean
  • DATABASE REPLICATION
    Publication number: 20100121817
    Abstract: A new database design is implemented in which everything in the database is modeled with primitives, including the links and nodes for a graph tuple store. A query syntax provides a nested tree of constraints with a single global schema. Various optimization techniques for queries and replication techniques are also described.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 20, 2010
    Publication date: May 13, 2010
    Inventors: Scott MEYER, Jutta Degener, Barak Michener, John Giannandrea
  • QUERY OPTIMIZATION
    Publication number: 20100121839
    Abstract: A new database design is implemented in which everything in the database is modeled with primitives, including the links and nodes for a graph tuple store. A query syntax provides a nested tree of constraints with a single global schema. Various optimization techniques for queries and replication techniques are also described.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 20, 2010
    Publication date: May 13, 2010
    Inventors: Scott MEYER, Jutta Degener, Barak Michener, John Giannandrea
  • Selection of cardiac signal features detected in multiple classification intervals for cardiac pacing response classification
    Patent number: 7711424
    Abstract: Cardiac devices and methods involve the detection of cardiac signals features in adjacent classification intervals. Portions of the cardiac signal features detected in adjacent classification intervals are associated and are used to classify the cardiac response to a pacing pulse. Associating the portions of the cardiac signal features may be based on expected signal morphology.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 14, 2008
    Date of Patent: May 4, 2010
    Assignee: Cardiac Pacemakers, Inc.
    Inventors: Scott A. Meyer, Yanting Dong, Kevin John Stalsberg
  • Defibrillation threshold prediction methods and systems
    Patent number: 7711425
    Abstract: A nondefibrillating and nonfibrillation-inducing energy is delivered at a first internal thoracic location. A first resulting electrical signal is detected at a second internal thoracic location in or near a target region of a heart. A first defibrillation threshold is estimated using the nondefibrillating and nonfibrillation-inducing energy, the first resulting electrical signal, and a target electric field strength. The defibrillation threshold represents an energy that when delivered at the first internal thoracic location creates an electric field strength in the target region of the heart that meets or exceeds the target electric field strength.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 22, 2005
    Date of Patent: May 4, 2010
    Assignee: Cardiac Pacemakers, Inc.
    Inventors: Xuan Wei, Robert J. Sweeney, Joseph M. Bocek, Scott A. Meyer, Jeffrey E. Stahmann, Yi Zhang
  • ARRYTHMIA ADJUDICATION AND THERAPY TRAINING SYSTEMS AND METHODS
    Publication number: 20100106036
    Abstract: A system and method for presenting arrhythmia episode information to a user are described. An episode database has episode data regarding a plurality of different arrhythmia episodes generated from a plurality of data-generating devices. A user interface is configured to display the episode data for one of the arrhythmia episodes and receive characterization data from the user characterizing the displayed episode data. An adjudication database has adjudication conclusions associated with the arrhythmia episodes in the episode database. The system further includes an adjudication processor, configured to process characterization data relative to the adjudication database.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 20, 2009
    Publication date: April 29, 2010
    Applicant: CARDIAC PACEMAKERS, INC.
    Inventors: Yanting Dong, Scott A. Meyer, Deepa Mahajan, Haresh G. Sachanandani, Kenneth P. Hoyme
  • Cardiac therapy triggered by capture verification
    Patent number: 7702388
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides methods and systems for tachyarrhythmia therapy involving pacing the heart to prior to the application of a cardioversion/defibrillation shock. One or more pace pulses are delivered to the arrhythmic chamber or chambers. The pace pulses may be delivered to the heart at an adaptable rate selected to organize the electrical activity of the heart. If the pace pulses produce capture, cardioversion/defibrillation stimulation is delivered.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 28, 2003
    Date of Patent: April 20, 2010
    Assignee: Cardiac Pacemakers, Inc.
    Inventors: Haris J. Sih, Scott A. Meyer, Paul A. Haefner
  • Wet clean system design
    Patent number: 7694688
    Abstract: The present invention generally provides an apparatus and method for processing and transferring substrates in a multi-chamber processing system that has the capability of receiving and performing single substrate processing steps performed in parallel, while using the many favorable aspects of batch processing. Embodiments of the invention described herein are adapted to maximize system throughput, reduce system cost, reduce cost per substrate during processing, increase system reliability, improve the device yield on the processed substrates, and reduce system footprint. In one embodiment, the cluster tool is adapted to perform a wet/clean process sequence in which various substrate cleaning processes are performed on a substrate in the cluster tool.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 5, 2007
    Date of Patent: April 13, 2010
    Assignee: Applied Materials, Inc.
    Inventors: Paul Lester, Scott Meyer, Wyland L. Atkins, Douglas Richards, Constantin Predoaica, Jeffrey Hudgens, Charles Carlson, Penchala Kankanala, Mike Rice, James S. Papanu, Evanson G. Baiya, John J. Rosato
  • Method of bioimage data processing for revealing more meaningful anatomic features of diseased tissues
    Patent number: 7668342
    Abstract: The present invention discloses a method for generating elevation maps or images of a tissue layer/boundary with respect to a fitted reference surface, comprising the steps of finding and segmenting a desired tissue layer/boundary; fitting a smooth reference surface to the segmented tissue layer/boundary; calculating elevations of the same or other tissue layer/boundary relative to the fitted reference surface; and generating maps of elevation relative to the fitted surface. The elevation can be displayed in various ways including three-dimensional surface renderings, topographical contour maps, contour maps, en-face color maps, and en-face grayscale maps. The elevation can also be combined and simultaneously displayed with another tissue layer/boundary dependent set of image data to provide additional information for diagnostics.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 9, 2005
    Date of Patent: February 23, 2010
    Assignee: Carl Zeiss Meditec, Inc.
    Inventors: Matthew J. Everett, Scott A. Meyer, Paul F. Stetson, Yan Zhou
  • Submarine tub toy holder
    Patent number: D619842
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 3, 2009
    Date of Patent: July 20, 2010
    Assignee: Target Brands, Inc.
    Inventors: Phillip L. Noren, Scott A. Meyer, Michael M. Habig, Sam J. Clavette, Rachel A. Jones
  • Whale tub toy holder
    Patent number: D619843
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 3, 2009
    Date of Patent: July 20, 2010
    Assignee: Target Brands, Inc.
    Inventors: Phillip L. Noren, Scott A. Meyer, Michael M. Habig, Sam J. Clavette, Rachel A. Jones