Patents by Inventor Steven E. Sjoquist

Steven E. Sjoquist 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: 20250235708
    Abstract: Technologies and implementations for a wearable healthcare system including an information management module (IMM). The IMM may be configured to detect proximity of a healthcare device. The IMM may be configured to determine a type of the detected healthcare device. Once the type of healthcare device is determined, the IMM may be configured to communicate information regarding a medical device, where the communicated information may be adapted to correspond to the determined type of healthcare device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 14, 2025
    Publication date: July 24, 2025
    Applicant: West Affum Holdings DAC
    Inventors: Brian D. Webster, Phillip D. Foshee, JR., David P. Finch, Steven E. Sjoquist
  • Patent number: 12362065
    Abstract: A medical data management system is provided that facilitates expedited review of health data for patient care. The medical data management system includes devices for collecting the health data, associating the health data with health events, optimizing storage of health data, and displaying comprehensive patient data for efficient and rapid review. The system includes a medical monitoring device that uses sensors to acquire health data and logic to specify data blocks of the data that characterize health episodes. Data management device(s) stitch the data blocks according to timelines and store the stitched data blocks as a full episode. The stitched data blocks are rendered for display, as a data presentation with timelines and graphic representations.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 22, 2022
    Date of Patent: July 15, 2025
    Assignee: West Affum Holdings DAC
    Inventors: Zoie R. Brent, Korine W. Haynes, Jonathan P. Niegowski, Steven E. Sjoquist, Robert C. Birkner, Megan E. Briscoe, David P. Finch
  • Patent number: 12354750
    Abstract: A medical wearable matching system is provided that pre-assesses a fit of a wearable article of medical device for a patient. The matching system may facilitate fitting and selection of a class of wearable articles for a patient. The matching system may also evaluate potential effects of the fit on operations of the medical device. Patient specific data, such as measurements, are fed into a fit prediction artificial intelligence (“AI”) model. The fitting AI model is trained with fitting data of previous patients to predict a class of wearable medical article that is likely, above a threshold amount, to provide a target fit for the patient. The patient specific information may also be fed into an adverse potential AI model. The adverse potential AI model is trained with patient experience data describing adverse operations of a wearable article worn by prior patients.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 21, 2022
    Date of Patent: July 8, 2025
    Assignee: West Affum Holdings DAC
    Inventors: Steven E. Sjoquist, Mark P. Moore, Joseph L. Sullivan, Jonathan P. Niegowski, Hema A. Ingle, Leo J. Gilbert, Zoie R. Brent
  • Publication number: 20250161702
    Abstract: A wearable cardioverter defibrillator (WCD) system includes a support structure that the patient may wear, and one or more sensors that may acquire patient physiological signals, such as ECG and others. A processor of the WCD system may determine diagnostics from the patient physiological signals. These diagnostics include a six-second ECG portion, heart rates as histograms, heart rates against QRS width, heart rate trends, clinical event counters, diagnostics relating to heart rate variability and about the atrial arrhythmia burden of the patient. In some embodiments, the WCD system includes a user interface with a screen that displays these diagnostics. In some examples, the WCD system exports these diagnostics for viewing by a different screen. When viewed, these diagnostics permit more detailed analysis of the state of the patient.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 17, 2025
    Publication date: May 22, 2025
    Applicant: West Affum Holdings DAC
    Inventors: Steven E. Sjoquist, Jonathan P. Niegowski, Zoie R. Engman, Pamela F. Breske
  • Publication number: 20250161703
    Abstract: Disclosed are embodiments directed to security methods applied to connections between components in a distributed (networked) system including medical and non-medical devices, providing secure authentication, authorization, patient and device data transfer, and patient data association and privacy for components of the system.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 17, 2025
    Publication date: May 22, 2025
    Applicant: West Affum Holdings DAC
    Inventors: Steven E. Sjoquist, David P. Finch, Erick M. Roane, Zoie R. Engman, Jonathan P. Niegowski, Dusan Beblavy, Martin Pribula, Peter Curila, Martin Kolesár
  • Publication number: 20250166767
    Abstract: In one example, a method to aggregate information from one or more medical devices comprises collecting information from one or more medical devices used by a patient, aggregating the information from the one or more medical devices into a patient record, storing the patient record to be accessible by a care station server, and providing access to the patient record to via the care station server. Other examples and related methods and apparatuses are also disclosed herein.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 17, 2025
    Publication date: May 22, 2025
    Applicant: West Affum Holdings DAC
    Inventors: Zoie R. Engman, Jonathan P. Niegowski, Steven E. Sjoquist
  • Patent number: 12296184
    Abstract: Technologies and implementations for a wearable healthcare system including an information management module (IMM). The IMM may be configured to detect proximity of a healthcare device. The IMM may be configured to determine a type of the detected healthcare device. Once the type of healthcare device is determined, the IMM may be configured to communicate information regarding a medical device, where the communicated information may be adapted to correspond to the determined type of healthcare device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 21, 2022
    Date of Patent: May 13, 2025
    Assignee: West Affum Holdings DAC
    Inventors: Brian D. Webster, Phillip D. Foshee, Jr., David P. Finch, Steven E. Sjoquist
  • Patent number: 12300368
    Abstract: In one example, a method to aggregate information from one or more medical devices comprises collecting information from one or more medical devices used by a patient, aggregating the information from the one or more medical devices into a patient record, storing the patient record to be accessible by a care station server, and providing access to the patient record to via the care station server. Other examples and related methods and apparatuses are also disclosed herein.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 6, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 13, 2025
    Assignee: West Affum Holdings DAC
    Inventors: Zoie R. Engman, Jonathan P. Niegowski, Steven E. Sjoquist
  • Publication number: 20250073480
    Abstract: Disclosed are a timeline-based navigation feature and a channel selection feature. The timeline-based navigation feature allows the user to visually identify significant events during an episode and quickly navigate the display of data to those significant events. Embodiments of such feature allow a user to quickly see that there is a shock delivered, for example, and click on that part of a timeline navigator to advance the detailed display of data to that point in the episode. The data channel selection feature enables selection of display channel(s) from among a set of available data channels. Embodiments of such feature enable a selection and/or deselection of various channels for display to minimize display of extraneous data and/or to select preferred channels of data for review.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 20, 2024
    Publication date: March 6, 2025
    Inventors: Zoie R. Engman, Jonathan P. Niegowski, Laura M. Gustavson, Pamela F. Breske, Angela M. Stewart, Steven E. Sjoquist
  • Patent number: 12233272
    Abstract: A WCD system is configured to monitor various characteristics of the WCD system including about the patient. The information collected by the WCD is generally referred to as “patient information.” The WCD system is further configured to transmit certain of the patient information to different recipients based on predetermined profiles with which one or more of the recipients is associated. In various embodiments, different sets or subsets of the patient information may be sent to different recipients.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 11, 2024
    Date of Patent: February 25, 2025
    Assignee: West Affum Holdings DAC
    Inventors: Steven E. Sjoquist, Jonathan P. Niegowski, Zoie R. Engman, Pamela F. Breske
  • Patent number: 12233273
    Abstract: Disclosed are embodiments directed to security methods applied to connections between components in a distributed (networked) system including medical and non-medical devices, providing secure authentication, authorization, patient and device data transfer, and patient data association and privacy for components of the system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 20, 2024
    Date of Patent: February 25, 2025
    Assignee: West Affum Holdings DAC
    Inventors: Steven E. Sjoquist, David P. Finch, Erick M. Roane, Zoie R. Engman, Jonathan P. Niegowski, Dusan Beblavy, Martin Pribula, Peter Curila, Martin Kolesár
  • Patent number: 12226625
    Abstract: A WCD system is configured to detect when a therapy administered to a patient by the WCD system is unsuccessful, and in response determine whether to send notifications to remote non-witness responders. The WCD system may be configured to decide to send such notifications after the WCD system determines it has administered a predetermined number of unsuccessful shocks to the patient. The predetermined number of unsuccessful shocks may be the maximum number of unsuccessful shocks the WCD system will administer to a patient, or every Xth shock (e.g., 3rd shock). The WCD system can be configured to periodically resend the notification. The notifications may be in the form of SMS, voice messages, emails, app notifications, etc. sent to cell phones, smartphones, computers, laptops, tablets, etc. of the responders either directly, via a server, or via a CAD-coupled server.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 31, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 18, 2025
    Assignee: West Affum Holdings DAC
    Inventors: Douglas K. Medema, Steven E. Sjoquist
  • Patent number: 12172023
    Abstract: Disclosed are a timeline-based navigation feature and a channel selection feature. The timeline-based navigation feature allows the user to visually identify significant events during an episode and quickly navigate the display of data to those significant events. Embodiments of such feature allow a user to quickly see that there is a shock delivered, for example, and click on that part of a timeline navigator to advance the detailed display of data to that point in the episode. The data channel selection feature enables selection of display channel(s) from among a set of available data channels. Embodiments of such feature enable a selection and/or deselection of various channels for display to minimize display of extraneous data and/or to select preferred channels of data for review.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 7, 2022
    Date of Patent: December 24, 2024
    Assignee: West Affum Holdings DAC
    Inventors: Zoie R. Engman, Jonathan P. Niegowski, Laura M. Gustavson, Pamela F. Breske, Angela M. Stewart, Steven E. Sjoquist
  • Patent number: 12121737
    Abstract: A WCD system is configured to monitor various characteristics of the WCD system including about the patient. The WCD system is further configured to transmit a notification of a notifiable event to responders that are outside a local area of the patient, and to silence the notification for any responder(s) that are inside the local area of the patient.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 23, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 22, 2024
    Assignee: WEST AFFUM HOLDINGS DAC
    Inventors: Steven E. Sjoquist, David P. Finch
  • Patent number: 12115379
    Abstract: In embodiments, a wearable medical system (WMS) for an ambulatory patient, which can be a wearable cardioverter defibrillator (WCD) system, analyzes the patient's ECG signal to generate a detection outcome. The WMS also has an ambulatory user interface that outputs a human-visible indication. A programming device, such as a PC, a tablet, etc., establishes a communication link with the WMS during an in-person session with the patient. The programming device may include a programming screen that reproduces the human-visible indication in real time. An advantage can be that the person programming the WMS need not strain to look also at the ambulatory user interface at the time they are looking at the programming device. Another advantage can be that the patient will recognize that he or she is better protected, and have their confidence in the WMS increased, and therefore better comply with wearing the WMS as required.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 31, 2023
    Date of Patent: October 15, 2024
    Assignee: WEST AFFUM HOLDINGS DAC
    Inventors: David Peter Finch, Zoie Engman, Steven E. Sjoquist, Angela M. Stewart, Pamela F. Breske, Jonathan Paul Niegowski, Laura Marie Gustavson
  • Publication number: 20240316356
    Abstract: A wearable cardioverter defibrillator (WCD) system comprises a plurality of patient parameter electrodes and a plurality of defibrillator electrodes to contact a patient's skin when the WCD is delivering therapy to the patient, a processor to receive one or more patient parameters from the one or more patient parameter electrodes, an energy storage device to store a charge to provide electrical therapy to the patient via the plurality of defibrillator electrodes, and a non-invasive blood pressure (NIBP) monitor to obtain a blood pressure measurement of the patient and to provide the blood pressure measurement to the processor. The processor is to determine whether to provide electrical therapy to the patient based on the one or more patient parameters during an episode, and to obtain the blood pressure measurement from the NIBP monitor during the episode.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 31, 2024
    Publication date: September 26, 2024
    Applicant: West Affum Holdings DAC
    Inventors: Kenneth F. Cowan, Steven E. Sjoquist, Zoie R. Engman, Erick M. Roane, Laura M. Gustavson, Douglas K. Medema, Garrett M. Kotlarchik, Pamela Breske, Jonathan P. Niegowski, Joseph L. Sullivan, Robert R. Buchanan
  • Publication number: 20240267720
    Abstract: In one embodiment, a method of alerting a user of a WCD is described. The method includes receiving an alert from the WCD on a remote device associated with the user and in communication with the WCD and transcribing the alert into a message for the user. The method also includes personalizing the message for the user and delivering the message to the user via the remote device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 2, 2024
    Publication date: August 8, 2024
    Applicant: WEST AFFUM HOLDINGS DAC
    Inventors: Laura M. Gustavson, David P. Finch, Steven E. Sjoquist, Heather Mareth, Erik L. Schneider, Zoie R. Engman
  • Publication number: 20240189611
    Abstract: Disclosed are embodiments directed to security methods applied to connections between components in a distributed (networked) system including medical and non-medical devices, providing secure authentication, authorization, patient and device data transfer, and patient data association and privacy for components of the system.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 20, 2024
    Publication date: June 13, 2024
    Applicant: West Affum Holdings DAC
    Inventors: Steven E. Sjoquist, David P. Finch, Erick M. Roane, Zoie R. Engman, Jonathan P. Niegowski, Dusan Beblavy, Martin Pribula, Peter Curila, Martin Kolesár
  • Patent number: 11998752
    Abstract: A wearable cardioverter defibrillator (WCD) system comprises a plurality of patient parameter electrodes and a plurality of defibrillator electrodes to contact a patient's skin when the WCD is delivering therapy to the patient, a processor to receive one or more patient parameters from the one or more patient parameter electrodes, an energy storage device to store a charge to provide electrical therapy to the patient via the plurality of defibrillator electrodes, and a non-invasive blood pressure (NIBP) monitor to obtain a blood pressure measurement of the patient and to provide the blood pressure measurement to the processor. The processor is to determine whether to provide electrical therapy to the patient based on the one or more patient parameters during an episode, and to obtain the blood pressure measurement from the NIBP monitor during the episode.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 13, 2022
    Date of Patent: June 4, 2024
    Assignee: West Affum Holdings DAC
    Inventors: Kenneth F. Cowan, Steven E. Sjoquist, Zoie R. Engman, Erick M. Roane, Laura M. Gustavson, Douglas K. Medema, Garrett M. Kotlarchik, Pamela Breske, Jonathan P. Niegowski, Joseph L. Sullivan, Robert R. Buchanan
  • Publication number: 20240139530
    Abstract: A WCD system is configured to monitor various characteristics of the WCD system including about the patient. The information collected by the WCD is generally referred to as “patient information.” The WCD system is further configured to transmit certain of the patient information to different recipients based on predetermined profiles with which one or more of the recipients is associated. In various embodiments, different sets or subsets of the patient information may be sent to different recipients.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 11, 2024
    Publication date: May 2, 2024
    Applicant: West Affum Holdings DAC
    Inventors: Steven E. Sjoquist, Jonathan P. Niegowski, Zoie R. Engman, Pamela F. Breske