Patents by Inventor Stephen Brossette

Stephen Brossette 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 for measuring the incidence of hospital acquired infections
    Publication number: 20060229821
    Abstract: Disclosed is a method and system for analyzing patient hospitalization data to determine a Nosocomial Infection Marker (NIM), the method comprising receiving from a database hospitalization data associated with at least one patient, calculating from the hospitalization data the number of specimens with non-duplicate hospital isolates (SNDHI) markers, calculating from the hospitalization data antibiotic utilization criteria (AUC) markers, and determining the nosocomial infection marker (NIM) for each patient, based upon the calculated SNDHI and AUC markers.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 26, 2005
    Publication date: October 12, 2006
    Inventors: Stephen Brossette, Patrick Hymel, Gerald LaBorde