...that Thomas Edison's patent application on his phonograph was approved by the Patent Office in just seven weeks? In contrast, it took Gordon Gould, the inventor of the laser, 30 years to obtain his patent -- finally awarded in 1988!
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| Application No. | Application Title | Issue Date |
| 20070179769 | Medical risk stratifying method and system A method is provided for a medical risk stratification system. The method may include establishing a medical risk process model indicative of interrelationships between a plurality of medical risks and a plurality of health parameters and obtaining a set of values corre... | 08/02/2007 |
| 20070066914 | Method and System for Detecting and Classifying Mental States A method of detecting and classifying mental states, comprising the steps of receiving bio-signals from one or more bio-signal detectors; generating multiple different representations of each bio-signal; determining the value of one or more features of the each bio-sign... | 03/22/2007 |
| 20070034215 | System and Method of Self-Properties for an Autonomous and Automatic Computer Environment Systems, methods and apparatus are provided through which in some embodiments self health/urgency data and environment health/urgency data may be transmitted externally from an autonomic element. Other embodiments may include transmitting the self health/urgency data an... | 02/15/2007 |
| 20070015971 | Disease predictions A support vector machine (110) is used to predict who, among a population of patients with diabetes mellitus, will develop proteinuria which is in indicator of diabetic nephropathy. The support vector machine (110) is trained using test results of the pati... | 01/18/2007 |
| 20060281980 | Apparatus and method for determining a physiological condition An apparatus for detecting a physiological condition in a person, comprising input means for receiving at least two physiological parameters, processing means for determining, from the received physiological parameters, a result signal indicative of the presence or onse... | 12/14/2006 |
| 20060280348 | Method of screening cellular tissue A method of screening cellular tissue is disclosed. Features from a set of images are reviewed using a multi-stage pattern recognition engine, which first identifies, then refines a set of suspect features within the images. A suspect feature identifier is generated for... | 12/14/2006 |
| 20060161091 | Bed-side information system An object of invention is to display necessary information on a screen and display predicted information obtained by predicting the progression of the necessary information. In a bed-side information system, a body information monitor 11 measures arterial blood p... | 07/20/2006 |
| 20050283096 | Apparatus and method for detecting swallowing activity An apparatus and method for detecting swallowing activity is provided. In an embodiment, a method includes receiving an electronic signal from an accelerometer that represents swallowing activity, extracting at least two features from the signal, classifying the signal ... | 12/22/2005 |
| 20050267377 | Maternal-fetal monitoring system A maternal-fetal monitoring system for use during all stages of pregnancy, including antepartum and intrapartum stages. The maternal-fetal monitoring system of the subject invention comprises (1) a set of sensors; (2) an amplifying/filtering means; (3) a computing means... | 12/01/2005 |
| 20050256420 | System and method for classifying patient's breathing using artificial neural network Described is a method and system for analyzing a patient's breaths. The arrangement may include a sensor and a processor. The sensor detects data corresponding to a patient's breathing patterns over a plurality of breaths. The processor separates the detected data into ... | 11/17/2005 |
| 20050240085 | Balanced care product customization A method includes obtaining subjective and objective inputs from an individual in need of a custom prepared composition for changing or improving one or more of the individual's conditions. Objective data may be collected by analyzing one or more samples taken from the ... | 10/27/2005 |
| 20050228236 | Method and apparatus for assessing psychiatric or physical disorders A method of assessing the psychological or physiological state by analyzing language cues captured from a patient. The language cues may be semantic cues (speech or written text) or visual cues (expression or body language). Key features are extracted from the language ... | 10/13/2005 |
| 20050165285 | Computerized medical diagnostic and treatment advice system including network access A system and method for providing computerized, knowledge-based medical diagnostic and treatment advice. The medical advice is provided to the general public over networks, such as a telephone network or a computer network. The invention also includes a stand-alone embo... | 07/28/2005 |
| 20050049470 | Multi-domain motion estimation and plethysmographic recognition using fuzzy neural-nets Pulse oximetry is improved through classification of plethysmographic signals by processing the plethysmographic signals using a neural network that receives input coefficients from multiple signal domains including, for example, spectral, bispectral, cepstral and Wavel... | 03/03/2005 |
| 20050020903 | Systems and methods for automated diagnosis and decision support for heart related diseases and conditions CAD (computer-aided diagnosis) systems and applications for cardiac imaging are provided, which implement methods to automatically extract and analyze features from a collection of patient information (including image data and/or non-image data) of a subject patient, to... | 01/27/2005 |