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...that Robert Adler has the dubious distinction of being the Father of the Couch Potato? Back in 1955 Adler was employed by what was then Zenith Radio Corp., where he was charged to invent something that would allow viewers to turn down the TV volume without leaving their chairs. After a series of flops (such as a wired contraption that people tripped over), Adler hit on the idea of using sound waves. Thus the Remote Control was born...
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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8182462 | Modular external infusion device A modular external infusion device that controls the rate a fluid is infused into an individual's body, which includes a first module and a second module. More particularly, the first module may be a pumping module that delivers a fluid, such as a medication, to a p... | 05/22/2012 |
| 8152789 | System and method for providing closed loop infusion formulation delivery A system and method for providing closed loop infusion formulation delivery which accurately calculates a delivery amount based on a sensed biological state by adjusting an algorithm's programmable control parameters. The algorithm calculates a delivery amount havin... | 04/10/2012 |
| 7901394 | Physiological monitoring device for controlling a medication infusion device Methods and apparatuses for calculating and transmitting medication dosage or bolus information are provided. A blood glucose meter receives a test strip with a sample of the user's blood and measures the user's blood glucose level with a sensor. The meter then calc... | 03/08/2011 |
| 7850674 | Glucose measuring module and insulin pump combination A combination glucose measuring and insulin pumping device is described. The two major components, a glucose measuring module and an insulin pump, are held together by a quick attach and release mechanism. Communication between the glucose measuring module and the i... | 12/14/2010 |
| 7815622 | Modular external infusion device A modular external infusion device that controls the rate a fluid is infused into an individual's body, which includes a first module and a second module. More particularly, the first module may be a pumping module that delivers a fluid, such as a medication, to a p... | 10/19/2010 |
| 7811276 | Medical sensor and technique for using the same A sensor is provided that is appropriate for transcutaneous detection of tissue or blood constituents. A sensor for tissue constituent detection may include a gas collection chamber with a conduit to a sensing component and a conduit from the sensing component to th... | 10/12/2010 |
| 7806886 | Apparatus and method for controlling insulin infusion with state variable feedback An infusion system, which may be a closed loop, or “semi-closed-loop”, infusion system, uses state variable feedback to control the rate at which fluid is infused into a user's body. The closed loop system includes a sensor system, a controller, and a delivery s... | 10/05/2010 |
| 7682351 | Method for infusing insulin to a subject to improve impaired hepatic glucose processing The present invention is a method for delivering insulin to a subject to improve impaired hepatic glucose processing. The method delivers a series of pulses of insulin to the subject over a period of time accompanied by ingestion of glucose in the form of a carbohyd... | 03/23/2010 |
| 7402153 | Closed-loop method for controlling insulin infusion A closed loop infusion system controls the rate that fluid is infused into the body of a user. The closed loop infusion system includes a sensor system, a controller, and a delivery system. The sensor system includes a sensor for monitoring a condition of the user. ... | 07/22/2008 |
| 7316700 | Self optimizing lancing device with adaptation means to temporal variations in cutaneous properties A lancing device, an embodiment of which controls the advancement and retraction of a lancet by monitoring the position of the lancet in conjunction with a lancet controller which incorporates a feedback loop for modulating the lancet driver to follow a predetermine... | 01/08/2008 |
| 7302289 | Readable probe array for use A disposable high density optically readable polydeoxynucleotide array with integral fluorescence excitation and fluorescence emission channels is described. The compact array size allows integration into several types of interventional devices such as catheters, gu... | 11/27/2007 |
| 7267665 | Closed loop system for controlling insulin infusion A closed loop infusion system controls the rate that fluid is infused into the body of a user. The closed loop infusion system includes a sensor system, a controller, and a delivery system. The sensor system includes a sensor for monitoring a condition of the user. ... | 09/11/2007 |
| 7258673 | Devices, systems and methods for extracting bodily fluid and monitoring an analyte therein An interstitial fluid (ISF) extraction device includes a penetration member configured for penetrating a target site of a user's skin layer and, subsequently, residing in the user's skin layer and extracting an ISF sample therefrom and at least three concentrically-... | 08/21/2007 |
| 7229430 | Apparatuses and methods for titrating drug delivery A method and apparatus for reducing the workload of titrating drug to effect while leaving clinician users in control of a related procedure is described. A drug delivery device is controlled to achieve a target drug concentration at a selected site in the patient o... | 06/12/2007 |
| 7220240 | System and method for adaptive drug delivery A system and method for controlling the administration of medication to a patient utilizes adaptive feedback to achieve and maintain a target effect in said patient. A sensor package having one or more sensors is used to sense an attribute of the patient and to prov... | 05/22/2007 |
| 7200504 | Measuring temperature change in an electronic biomedical implant The change in temperature of an implanted electronic device can be determined by providing power to one or more circuit elements included in the implanted electronic device, wherein the circuit elements comprise a non-crystal oscillator. A shift in the output freque... | 04/03/2007 |
| 7155371 | Measuring device with comment input function A measuring device (1) has, e.g., a voice input portion (27) for a measurer to input an arbitrary comment at a time of measurement, and it allows a voice recognition portion (28) to recognize the measurer's comment inputted by the voice input po... | 12/26/2006 |
| 7060059 | System and method for initiating and maintaining continuous, long-term control of a concentration of a substance in a patient using a feedback or model-based controller coupled to a single-needle or multi-needle intradermal (ID) delivery device A closed loop therapy system for controlling a concentration of a substance, such as blood glucose concentration, in the body of a user. The system and method employ a sensor system that measures a glucose level in the body, a controller that uses the measured gluco... | 06/13/2006 |
| 7039560 | Measuring device with comment input function A measuring device (1) has, e.g., a voice input portion (27) for a measurer to input an arbitrary comment at a time of measurement, and it allows a voice recognition portion (28) to recognize the measurer's comment inputted by the voice input po... | 05/02/2006 |
| 6974413 | System and method for analyzing patient information for use in automated patient care One or more physiological measures regularly recorded by an implantable medical device and relating to individual patient information recorded on a substantially continuous basis are retrieved from a patient care record. The physiological measures retrieved from one... | 12/13/2005 |
| 6945934 | System and method for determining a reference baseline record for use in automated patient care A system and method for determining a reference baseline record for use in automated patient care. One or more physiological measures are retrieved. Each of the measures relates to individual patient information recorded during an initial observation period from a p... | 09/20/2005 |
| 6875195 | Portable automatic insulin syringe device with blood sugar measuring function Disclosed is a portable automatic insulin syringe device adapted to enable an injection of liquid medicine for a prolonged time, including a syringe pump having a pump housing, further including a blood sugar measuring unit mounted at one side of the pump housing an... | 04/05/2005 |
| 6852104 | Programmable insulin pump An apparatus for delivering a bolus of a medical agent to a patient. The apparatus comprises a pump mechanism, a data input device, and a processor in data communication with the keypad and arranged to control the pump mechanism. The processor is programmed to recei... | 02/08/2005 |
| 6740072 | System and method for providing closed loop infusion formulation delivery A system and method for providing closed loop infusion formulation delivery which accurately calculates a delivery amount based on a sensed biological state by adjusting an algorithm's programmable control parameters. The algorithm calculates a delivery amount havin... | 05/25/2004 |
| 6544212 | Diabetes management system A system is provided that enables glycemic control for a subject. The system includes an insulin delivery unit, a glucose sensor, and a control unit. The control unit includes a processor unit that receives glucose value readings from the glucose sensor, ... | 04/08/2003 |
| 6537241 | System and method for site specific therapy A system, including catheter apparatus, and related method for performing site specific therapy. The catheter apparatus can include one or more semipermeable microcatheters (preferably in the form of hollow fibers) for use in performing site specific micr... | 03/25/2003 |
| 5665065 | Medication infusion device with blood glucose data input A medication infusion device such as a programmable infusion pump includes data input regarding a selected patient parameter such as a current blood glucose reading. The infusion device includes a controller responsive to this data input to develop a medi... | 09/09/1997 |
| 5653681 | Method and system for obtaining target infusion dosage A method and system are disclosed for more accurate administration of a composition being infused into a body fluid having formed elements. The improved accuracy is due to a correction factor that corrects for the relative impermeability of the formed ele... | 08/05/1997 |
| 5544651 | Medical system and associated method for automatic treatment A medical device comprises a sensor for at least periodically measuring a predetermined physiological parameter of a patient and for generating a signal encoding a measured value of the physiological parameter. A comparator is operatively connected to the... | 08/13/1996 |
| 5364346 | Process for the continuous and discontinuous administration of insulin to the human body A process for the administration of insulin to the human body, particularly the discontinuous administration of insulin to the body, is disclosed. An apparatus for carrying out the process includes either dosing means for metering, or a display for otherw... | 11/15/1994 |
| 5195963 | Method and system for monitoring of blood constituents in vivo A method for determining the concentration of a constituent of blood employing a sensor in or near a catheter in a blood vessel for producing a signal related to the concentration of the constituent of blood is disclosed. The improvement comprises obtaini... | 03/23/1993 |
| 5190041 | System for monitoring and controlling blood glucose Systems are disclosed which utilize implanted glucose sensitive living cells to monitor blood glucose levels. The implanted cells produce a detectable electrical or optical signal in response to changes in glucose concentration in surrounding tissue. The ... | 03/02/1993 |
| 5101814 | System for monitoring and controlling blood glucose Systems are disclosed which utilize implanted glucose sensitive living cells to monitor blood glucose levels. The implanted cells produce a detectable electrical or optical signal in response to changes in glucose concentration in surrounding tissue. The ... | 04/07/1992 |
| 4822336 | Blood glucose level sensing A method of sensing blood glucose levels in the steps of passing glucose from a peritoneal fluid through a semi-permeable membrane and into a closed chamber, metabolizing the passed glucose in the closed chamber with a yeast suspension to produce a level ... | 04/18/1989 |
| 4718430 | Procedure and device for the administering of insulin or similar long-term medicaments A procedure for the administration of insulin or similar long-term medicaments utilizing an elastic element, for example a membrane dividing a reservoir into two chambers, one of which holds the medicament and the other containing a temperature-dependent ... | 01/12/1988 |
| 4705503 | Metabolite sensor including a chemical concentration sensitive flow controller for a drug delivery system A system for the measurement of a metabolite in a physiological fluid is disclosed which comprises a catheter which includes an internal metabolite sensor downstream from a semipermeable region where dynamic equilibrium is attained between the external me... | 11/10/1987 |
| 4685463 | Device for continuous in vivo measurement of blood glucose concentrations A device is disclosed for continuous in vivo measurement of blood glucose concentrations in arterial blood. A quantity of glucose oxidase enzyme is confined within at least one elongate double-lumened tube by means of a semi-permeable membrane tubule perm... | 08/11/1987 |
| 4526568 | Diagnostic method and apparatus for clamping blood glucose concentration A diagnostic apparatus and method for clamping the blood glucose concentration of a subject at any one of a plurality of levels. A desired clamping level (BC) is selected and the value of the present blood glucose concentration, corrected to fit a least s... | 07/02/1985 |
| 4464170 | Blood glucose control apparatus and method In a method and apparatus for controlling the concentration of glucose in the blood stream of a subject at a desired level (BI) including controlling the supply of insulin (IR) by periodically measuring the blood glucose concentration (G) and selecting a ... | 08/07/1984 |
| 4445885 | Insulin releasing supplier An insulin supplier, which can be effectively used for the treatment of diabetic patients, comprising a casing and at least one tubular structure composed of a polymeric semipermeable membrane to provide an internal chamber inside of the tubular membrane ... | 05/01/1984 |
