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Glam girl Heddy Lamar may have used her good looks to good effect on the silver screen, but she put her smarts to better use as an inventor. During World War II, she co-patented a frequency-switching system for torpedo guidance that was considered years ahead of its time.
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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 6115486 | Teleradiology system for the storage and transmission of angiographic and related image sequences An improved imaging sequence storage and transmission system is disclosed wherein the data files from the imaging sequence may be initially compressed using standard lossless compression techniques and then a non-linear time delay data compression techniq... | 09/05/2000 |
| 6041250 | Adaptive line noise canceler and detector for ECG signals An adaptive line noise detection and cancellation system having a baseline wander filter, high and low pass filters, an adaptive line noise canceler and various noise detectors is provided to identify, signal and remove contamination from an ECG signal wh... | 03/21/2000 |
| 6004276 | Open architecture cardiology information system A clinical information reporting system for use with an electronic database for a health care facility, the electronic database being a rotational and modular database for the provision of a scalable and extensible configuration preferably consisting of a... | 12/21/1999 |
| 5999845 | Muscle artifact noise detector for ECG signals A filter system for detecting and removing small amplitude, high frequency signals such as muscle artifact signals is provided. One form of the system includes a baseline wander filter, high and low pass filters, an adaptive line noise canceler and variou... | 12/07/1999 |
| 5983127 | ECG noise detection system A noise detection system having a baseline wander filter, high and low pass filters, an adaptive line noise canceler and various noise detectors is provided to identify, signal and remove contamination from an ECG signal wherein the ECG signal is conditio... | 11/09/1999 |
| 5908387 | Device and method for improved quantitative coronary artery analysis The present invention is generally directed to one or more devices and a method for improving quantitative coronary artery analysis. The devices which may be used with the present invention include an improved angiographic image quality phantom, an improv... | 06/01/1999 |
| 5856736 | Variable speed AC motor drive for treadmill A variable speed AC motor control drive system for use in devices such as treadmills and including a module to sense the voltage of the line voltage provided to the system and adjusting the pulse width modulated signals provided to the AC motor in respons... | 01/05/1999 |
| 5769821 | Catheter tip retainer A method and apparatus for retaining a catheter tip in a fixed position within a blood flow and preventing it from contacting a blood vessel wall. The apparatus includes a tip retainer at the distal end of the catheter that stabilizes the tip of the cathe... | 06/23/1998 |
| 5762068 | ECG filter and slew rate limiter for filtering an ECG signal A linear phase high pass filter is disclosed using a slew rate limiter and a linear phase low pass filter in parallel with a delay for removing baseline wander from an ECG signal. The linear phase low pass filter is preferably a digital Infinite Impulse R... | 06/09/1998 |
| 5747955 | Current sensing module for a variable speed AC motor drive for use with a treadmill A current sensing module for use with a variable speed AC motor control drive system for use with devices such as treadmills and including a module to sense the current of pulse width modulated signals provided to an AC motor wherein the current sensing m... | 05/05/1998 |
| 5716375 | Insertion assembly and method of inserting a vessel plug into the body of a patient A device and method of closing an incision or puncture in a patient by inserting a vessel plug into the incision or puncture until the distal end of the vessel plug is adjacent to the outer lumen of the blood vessel or target organ so that the vessel plug... | 02/10/1998 |
| 5706823 | Electrophysiology filtering system A versatile electrophysiology system including an amplification system, an ablation machine, a filter box, a display monitor and a chart recorder as well as an optional data management and analysis system wherein the amplification system receives endocard... | 01/13/1998 |
| 5650709 | Variable speed AC motor drive for treadmill A variable speed AC motor control drive system for use in devices such as treadmills and including a module to sense the voltage of the line voltage provided to the system and adjusting the pulse width modulated signals provided to the AC motor in respons... | 07/22/1997 |
| 5645063 | Skin electrode having multiple conductive center members A medical electrode and skin preparation device is adapted to be secured to the skin of a patient and is designed to allow the user to acquire physiological signals for use by a plurality of signal acquisition devices and optionally to also reliably prepa... | 07/08/1997 |
| 5617871 | Spread spectrum telemetry of physiological signals A system for the transmission of physiological signals from a patient to a display analysis and/or recording device using a spread spectrum transmission technique to reduce interference with the detection of the transmitted physiological signal wherein mu... | 04/08/1997 |
| 5601602 | Insertion assembly and method of inserting a vessel plug into the body of a patient A device and method of closing an incision or puncture in a patient by inserting a vessel plug into the incision or puncture until the distal end of the vessel plug is adjacent to the outer lumen of the blood vessel or target organ so that the vessel plug... | 02/11/1997 |
| 5591205 | Insertion assembly and method of inserting a vessel plug into the body of a patient A device and method of closing an incision or puncture in a patient by inserting a vessel plug into the incision or puncture until the distal end of the vessel plug is adjacent to the outer lumen of the blood vessel or target organ so that the vessel plug... | 01/07/1997 |
| 5569207 | Hydrocolloid dressing A dressing is described which is preferably constructed of a layer of hydrocolloid material having a downwardly extending lip member thereon that is sized to be received adjacent to a percutaneous device which is at least partially implanted into a patien... | 10/29/1996 |
| 5556390 | Catheter with oval or elliptical lumens A single or multiple lumen catheter having one or more non-circular, oval, elliptical or oblong shaped lumens therein and wherein the cross sectional shapes of a plurality of the lumens in the multiple lumen catheters are opposed with respect to each othe... | 09/17/1996 |
| 5554106 | Hydrocolloid exit site dressing A dressing is described which is preferably constructed of a layer of hydrocolloid material having a downwardly extending lip member thereon that is sized to be received adjacent to a percutaneous device which is at least partially implanted into a patien... | 09/10/1996 |
| 5545112 | D.C. treadmill speed change motor controller system A control system controls a D.C. speed-change motor to change the transmission configurations on a treadmill transmission powered by an A.C. drive motor. The control system may be either microprocessor based or a system of discrete logical pieces. The con... | 08/13/1996 |
| 5489278 | Catheter with elongated side openings An elongate catheter having one or more lumens therein and at least one lumen in flow communication with a side opening in the sidewall of the catheter wherein the side opening includes at least a first side which is oriented diagonally with respect to th... | 02/06/1996 |
| 5489250 | Treadmill deceleration system and method A high speed deceleration device and method is disclosed that operates on a D.C. speed-change motor used to change the transmission configurations on the transmission of a treadmill powered by a constant speed drive motor. In ordinary use, normal transmis... | 02/06/1996 |
| 5478352 | Insertion assembly and method of inserting a vessel plug into the body of a patient A device and method of closing an incision or puncture in a patient by inserting a vessel plug into the incision or puncture until the distal end of the vessel plug is adjacent to the outer lumen of the blood vessel or target organ so that the vessel plug... | 12/26/1995 |
| 5458141 | Abrasive skin electrode A medical electrode and skin preparation device is adapted to be secured to the skin of a patient and is designed to prepare the skin by abrasion or penetration of the epidermal layer of the skin in contact with the conductive means of the electrode after... | 10/17/1995 |
| 5451206 | Triple lumen catheter An elongated catheter formed with multiple lumens from coextruded or other materials such that the inner surface of the extension members or body portion of the catheter may include a higher durometer than the outer surface of the extension members or bod... | 09/19/1995 |
| 5441468 | Resiliently mounted treadmill deck A resilient treadmill deck having a plurality of rigid and elastomeric spacers interconnecting the deck of treadmill with a pair of side members that form the frame of the treadmill to dampen the noise and vibration caused by the operation of the treadmil... | 08/15/1995 |
| 5403291 | Catheter with elongated side holes An elongate catheter having one or more lumens therein and at least one lumen in flow communication with a side opening in the sidewall of the catheter wherein the side opening includes first and second sides and generally parallel distal and proximal end... | 04/04/1995 |
| 5381798 | Spread spectrum telemetry of physiological signals A system for the transmission of physiological signals from a patient to a display analysis and/or recording device using a spread spectrum transmission technique to reduce interference with the detection of the transmitted physiological signal wherein mu... | 01/17/1995 |
| 5382238 | Catheter stiffeners A catheter assembly including a wire stiffener or a dilator and modified wire stiffener which are used in combination to assist in the insertion of a relatively soft catheter into the patient wherein the wire stiffener temporarily stiffens the catheter an... | 01/17/1995 |
