Patents by Inventor Tom Wilmering

Tom Wilmering 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).

  • Patent number: 8565847
    Abstract: An evaluation board for a medical monitoring module is provided. The evaluation board includes a socket configured to receive a medical monitoring module and a plurality of connections for connection to a host or host simulator and a second device. The evaluation board may include a non-isolated power supply to provide power to the medical monitoring module. The evaluation board may also provide communication in a protocol between the host or host simulator and the medical monitoring module.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 16, 2010
    Date of Patent: October 22, 2013
    Assignee: Covidien LP
    Inventors: Kip Buxton, Randy Doyal, David Orian, Tom Wilmering
  • Patent number: 8521246
    Abstract: Systems, methods, and devices are provided for suppressing cross-talk noise due to capacitive and/or inductive coupling in a medical sensor signal. For example, an embodiment of a patient monitor may include driving circuitry, an amplifier, and transient current discharge circuitry. When the driving circuitry drives an emitter to emit light into a patient, a detector may detect a portion of the light that passes through the patient, generating a detector signal. Cross-talk between the emitter driving signals and the detector signal may generate interference in the form of a transient current in the detector signal. Before the amplifier receives the detector signal, transient current discharge circuitry may discharge the transient current.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 29, 2010
    Date of Patent: August 27, 2013
    Assignee: Covidien LP
    Inventors: Kalpathy Krishnan, Tom Wilmering, Thomas Geske
  • Patent number: 8489167
    Abstract: An evaluation kit for monitoring, testing, and debugging a medical monitoring module is provided. The kit includes a hardware and software to provide for monitoring of communication between the medical monitoring module and a host or host simulator. The kit may provide for various system configurations having a sensor device, a computer having a protocol analyzer and a host simulator, a medical monitoring module, a software host, a medical monitor, or any combination thereof.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 16, 2010
    Date of Patent: July 16, 2013
    Assignee: Covidien LP
    Inventors: Kip Buxton, Adam Grosser, David Orian, Tom Wilmering
  • Publication number: 20130134989
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates generally to patient monitoring systems and, more particularly, to a resistance emulator for patient monitors. In an embodiment, a resistance emulator includes a first plug configured to couple with a medical monitor. The medical monitor is configured to receive a calibration resistance value of a medical device sensor from a coded resistor. The resistance emulator further includes a second plug configured to couple with a medical device sensor. The medical device sensor is configured without the coded resistor. The resistance emulator also includes emulation circuitry configured to provide an emulated signal representative of the calibration resistance value to the medical monitor.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 30, 2011
    Publication date: May 30, 2013
    Applicant: Nellcor Puritan Bennett LLC
    Inventors: Jeffrey M. Cloutier, Julia M. Strandberg, Tom Wilmering
  • Publication number: 20130007083
    Abstract: Methods and systems are disclosed for computing one or more continuous wavelet transforms on a dedicated integrated circuit. The systems comprise an integrated circuit having a receiver, memory, and processing circuitry. The receiver receives input data corresponding to an input signal. The memory stores information corresponding to one or more wavelet functions scaled over a set of scales. The processing circuitry is configured to compute, in-parallel, various portions of a single continuous wavelet transform of the input signal based on the received input data and the stored information corresponding to a single wavelet function computed over a set of scales.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 30, 2011
    Publication date: January 3, 2013
    Applicant: Nellcor Puritan Bennett Ireland
    Inventors: Peter Galen, James Ochs, James Watson, Tom Wilmering, Paul Addison
  • Publication number: 20120218404
    Abstract: A system and method for generating results indicative of physiological parameters of a patient and for capturing the results. The capture of the results may include recordation of the results through the use of a camera, while the physiological parameters may be generated through monitoring of a patient or by simulating such monitoring.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 28, 2011
    Publication date: August 30, 2012
    Applicant: Nellcor Puritan Bennett LLC
    Inventors: Kip Buxton, David Orian, Robert Rawlins, Tom Wilmering
  • Publication number: 20120136257
    Abstract: Systems, methods, and devices for improved patient monitor signal processing with higher signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) are provided. In accordance with an embodiment, an electronic patient monitor may include drive circuitry, a current-to-voltage converter, and feedback circuitry. The drive circuitry may drive an emitter of a medical sensor with dark periods during which the emitter does not emit light, and the current-to-voltage converter may receive and amplify a photocurrent signal from a detector of the sensor. The feedback circuitry may provide a feedback signal to the current-to-voltage converter. The feedback signal, based at least in part on the output of the current-to-voltage converter during the dark periods, may cause the current-to-voltage converter to substantially exclude an ambient light component of the photocurrent.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 30, 2010
    Publication date: May 31, 2012
    Applicant: Nellcor Puritan Bennett LLC
    Inventors: Kalpathy Krishnan, Tom Wilmering, Thomas Geske
  • Publication number: 20120029330
    Abstract: Systems, methods, and devices are provided for suppressing cross-talk noise due to capacitive and/or inductive coupling in a medical sensor signal. For example, an embodiment of a patient monitor may include driving circuitry, an amplifier, and transient current discharge circuitry. When the driving circuitry drives an emitter to emit light into a patient, a detector may detect a portion of the light that passes through the patient, generating a detector signal. Cross-talk between the emitter driving signals and the detector signal may generate interference in the form of a transient current in the detector signal. Before the amplifier receives the detector signal, transient current discharge circuitry may discharge the transient current.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 29, 2010
    Publication date: February 2, 2012
    Applicant: Nellcor Puritan Bennett LLC
    Inventors: Kalpathy Krishnan, Tom Wilmering, Thomas Geske
  • Publication number: 20110078596
    Abstract: A protocol analyzer and a host simulator for a medical monitoring module testing system are provided. The protocol analyzer may monitor communication in a first protocol from the medical monitoring module to a host or host simulator. The protocol analyzer may parse and display the messages of the first protocol on a display of a computer. The host simulator may receive data from the medical monitoring module and display data corresponding to a physiological parameter on the display.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 16, 2010
    Publication date: March 31, 2011
    Applicant: Nellcor Puritan Bennett LLC
    Inventors: Robert Rawlins, Tom Wilmering, David Orian, Kip Buxton
  • Publication number: 20110077487
    Abstract: An evaluation kit for monitoring, testing, and debugging a medical monitoring module is provided. The kit includes a hardware and software to provide for monitoring of communication between the medical monitoring module and a host or host simulator. The kit may provide for various system configurations having a sensor device, a computer having a protocol analyzer and a host simulator, a medical monitoring module, a software host, a medical monitor, or any combination thereof.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 16, 2010
    Publication date: March 31, 2011
    Applicant: Nellcor Puritan Bennett LLC
    Inventors: Kip Buxton, Adam Grosser, David Orian, Tom Wilmering
  • Publication number: 20110077488
    Abstract: An evaluation board for a medical monitoring module is provided. The evaluation board includes a socket configured to receive a medical monitoring module and a plurality of connections for connection to a host or host simulator and a second device. The evaluation board may include a non-isolated power supply to provide power to the medical monitoring module. The evaluation board may also provide communication in a protocol between the host or host simulator and the medical monitoring module.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 16, 2010
    Publication date: March 31, 2011
    Applicant: Nellcor Puritan Bennett LLC
    Inventors: Kip Buxton, Randy Doyal, David Orian, Tom Wilmering