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Mark Twain (Samuel L. Clemens) received Patent No. 121,992 for "An Improvement in Adjustable and Detachable Straps for Garments." He later received two more patents: one for a self-pasting scrapbook and one for a game to help players remember important historical dates.
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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7443302 | Caregiver and equipment monitoring and control system A hospital monitoring system for monitoring hospital personnel, a plurality of patient locations for patients, and associated devices is configured to control the associated devices based on the presence of hospital personnel or alarms. ... | 10/28/2008 |
| 7439856 | Health care patient status event processing and reporting The invention provides a method and system for communicating, processing and responding to information reporting the status of health care patients. In one aspect, the invention provides a procedure for allocating the attention of health care personnel to issues and... | 10/21/2008 |
| 7429243 | System and method for transacting an automated patient communications session A system and method for transacting an automated patient communications session is described. A patent health condition is monitored by regularly collecting physiological measures through an implantable medical device. A patient communications session is activated t... | 09/30/2008 |
| 7405653 | System for monitoring activities and location A residential monitoring system incorporates both physiological sensors and activity sensors. Some of the sensors can be in wireless communication with control circuitry. One or more activity profiles can be established for a resident to expand upon and supplement i... | 07/29/2008 |
| 7395117 | Implantable medical device having long-term wireless capabilities A medical device is capable of utilizing a pervasive wireless communications network, such as a digital wireless telephone network, personal communication services network or pager network, to directly communicate with a host computer without the need for a repeater... | 07/01/2008 |
| 7390299 | Patient monitoring system A wireless patient monitor is adapted to communicate with any one of plural medical telemetry networks, each having one or more central stations, where each network is configured to communicate via wireless communications using one of multiple different communicatio... | 06/24/2008 |
| 7338445 | Hard disk drive medical monitor with shock-proofing A medical monitor is disclosed for implantation in a human body for monitoring biological activity and states as detected by implanted sensors. The medical monitor includes at least one hard disk drive. A transmitter and receiver for produces and transmits signals. ... | 03/04/2008 |
| 7317941 | Time syncrhonization of data A device external to an implantable medical device (IMD) is provided with an accurate reference clock. The programmer receives time data from the IMD and compares that data to time data from the reference clock. Based on this comparison, the programmer determines ho... | 01/08/2008 |
| 7307509 | Assistive communication device An assistive communication device of the type on which a user can compose a message to be spoken by the device, using an input device to select items on a display to construct the message, can operate in a mode suitable for visually impaired and/or inexperienced use... | 12/11/2007 |
| 7301451 | Notification alarm transfer methods, system, and device A method for transferring data may include receiving data from a monitoring device, determining whether the subject being monitored has a condition that may require attention, and sending a notification message to a portable electronic device that is designed to be ... | 11/27/2007 |
| 7299085 | Remote monitoring of implanted medical device and surface ECG signals An integrated device for remote monitoring of implanted medical devices and surface ECG information includes components for collection of information from an implanted medical device, collection of surface ECG information, and remote communication of the collected i... | 11/20/2007 |
| 7294105 | System and method for a wireless medical communication system In one embodiment, a wireless medical communication system includes a plurality of transmitters. Each of the plurality of transmitters is capable of being coupled to at least one of a plurality of patients and operable to communicate over a communication link a subs... | 11/13/2007 |
| 7292141 | Audible alarm enhancement for monitoring systems An alarm system for a computer-based monitoring system such as a patient medical monitoring system is provided. The system comprises a main processor connected to a first speaker, a second processor communicatively connected to the main processor for exchange of mes... | 11/06/2007 |
| 7280041 | Method of communicating and disclosing feelings of mobile terminal user and communication system thereof The present invention provides a method of communicating and disclosing feelings of a mobile terminal user and communication system thereof, by which a user's feeling state can be delivered to a counter party by real time as well as voice, video, characters, text, a... | 10/09/2007 |
| 7278967 | Hard disk drive medical monitor with mirrored HDDs A medical monitor is disclosed for implantation in a human body for monitoring biological activity and states as detected by implanted sensors. The medical monitor includes a primary disk drive and a secondary disk drive, where the secondary disk drive mirrors the p... | 10/09/2007 |
| 7272428 | Wireless electrocardiograph system and method A method and system for wireless ECG monitoring is provided. An electrode connector, transmitter and receiver operate with existing electrodes and ECG monitors. The electrode connector includes connectors for attaching to disposable or reusable single electrodes. Th... | 09/18/2007 |
| 7242318 | Event detection and transmission system The present invention concerns a data acquisition and transfer device comprising a sensor responsive to change of predetermined nature, and a transmitter for transmitting over the mobile phone network data concerning the occurrence of such a change to a receiver sta... | 07/10/2007 |
| 7238156 | Systems, methods, and devices for health monitoring A health monitoring system is disclosed. According to one embodiment, the health monitoring system includes a first server configured to receive a first set of information from a monitoring device, wherein the first set of information includes a health condition rea... | 07/03/2007 |
| 7214188 | Hard disk drive medical monitor with sound-proofing A medical monitor is disclosed for implantation in a human body for monitoring biological activity and states as detected by implanted sensors. The medical monitor includes at least one hard disk drive. A transmitter and receiver for produces and transmits signals. ... | 05/08/2007 |
| 7214187 | System and method for identification of false statements A method of detecting lie detection including the steps of first conditioning the subject to produce an involuntary physiological response triggered when the subject provides false statements; and secondly asking the subject to state whether each of series of statem... | 05/08/2007 |
| 7215991 | Wireless medical diagnosis and monitoring equipment A medical diagnosis and monitoring system having at least one sensor for detecting an electrical, physical, chemical, or biological property of a patient such as, but not limited to, EEG- and EKG-signals, respiration, oxygen saturation, temperature, perspiration, et... | 05/08/2007 |
| 7193519 | Reusable instruments and related systems and methods Reusable instruments, such as reusable medical instruments, and related systems and methods, are disclosed. In some embodiments, the reusable instrument can be an endoscope. ... | 03/20/2007 |
| 7191000 | Cardiac rhythm management system for edema A cardiac rhythm management system detects edema. In response to an episode of detected edema, it initiates or adjusts a cardiac resynchronization therapy and/or a cardiac contractility modulation (CCM) therapy. ... | 03/13/2007 |
| 7177681 | Cardiac rhythm management system for edema A cardiac rhythm management system detects edema. In response to an episode of detected edema, it initiates or adjusts a cardiac resynchronization therapy and/or a cardiac contractility modulation (CCM) therapy. ... | 02/13/2007 |
| 7156808 | Method and apparatus for health and disease management combining patient data monitoring with wireless internet connectivity Embodiments of the invention provide a method and apparatus for a wireless health monitoring system for interactively monitoring a disease or health condition of a patient by connecting an internet-enabled wireless web device (“WWD”) to a health monitoring devic... | 01/02/2007 |
| 7156809 | Method and apparatus for health and disease management combining patient data monitoring with wireless internet connectivity Embodiments of the invention provide a method and apparatus for a wireless health monitoring system for interactively monitoring a disease or health condition of a patient by connecting a mobile phone to or with a digital camera and/or a medical monitoring device. T... | 01/02/2007 |
| 7153289 | Remotely programmable infusion system A remotely programmable infusion system. The remotely programmable infusion system comprises a memory for storing a programmable protocol and a remote communication port for sending a voice signal to a remote touch-tone transceiver and for receiving a remote program... | 12/26/2006 |
| 7130396 | Medical monitoring system having multiple communications channels A medical monitoring system has a sensor system including a sensor associated with a patient and a remote monitoring unit. The remote monitoring unit includes a microprocessor in communication with the sensor system, and a portable-monitoring unit transceiver system... | 10/31/2006 |
| 7130888 | Method and apparatus for controlling a computer over a TCP/IP protocol network The present invention permits virtually the entire functionality of a computer system to be made accessible over a network such as the Internet or an Intranet. More particularly, the present invention permits a computer system to be run as a “virtual machine” th... | 10/31/2006 |
| 7120488 | Therapy-delivering portable medical device capable of triggering and communicating with an alarm system A therapy-delivering, portable medical device (200) capable of triggering and/or communicating with an alarm system (100), as well as a related system and method therefor. The portable medical device (200) is configured to establish a communicat... | 10/10/2006 |
| 7115102 | Electronic stethoscope system In a local stethoscope unit, acoustic auscultation sounds picked up by the stethoscope chest piece assembly of a local stethoscope unit are converted to analog electrical signals and then converted to digital signals. The digital signals are conveyed to a data commu... | 10/03/2006 |
| 7087015 | Neurological pathology diagnostic apparatus and methods Apparatus and methods for rapidly diagnosing the presence or absence of the symptoms of neurological pathology caused by physical head trauma (such as occurs in contact sports or automobile collisions), disease (such as occurs in Alzheimer's disease), toxins (substa... | 08/08/2006 |
| 7077328 | Analyte test instrument system including data management system A method of managing data for a plurality of analyte test instruments connected to a data communication network. The method comprises the steps of: detecting via a host computer the connection of each instrument to the data communication network; uploading data rece... | 07/18/2006 |
| 7077806 | Adaptive interactive preceptored teaching system incorporating remote image monitoring A method for providing a patient with an analysis result which the patient uses to determine a dosage of a drug for self-administration when the patient is unable to obtain the analysis result themself. The method involves gathering by the patient of information whi... | 07/18/2006 |
| 7076303 | Apparatus and method for automated invoicing of medical device systems A system and method for remote invoicing and inventory control of medical components of an implantable medical device system upon implantation into a patient is described. The system includes at least one medical component implanted in a patient. A programmer is cap... | 07/11/2006 |
| 7076435 | Method for transferring patient information from a source monitor to a destination monitor A method and system for transferring patient information from a source patient monitor having a source patient database to a destination patient monitor having a destination patient database. In a preferred embodiment, a transport module is connectable to a source p... | 07/11/2006 |
| 7044911 | Gateway platform for biological monitoring and delivery of therapeutic compounds The invention relates to methods and devices for remote or distributed continuous monitoring of physiologically relevant states. The invention provides for methods to automatically detect deviations or other states in physiological parameters and automatically alert... | 05/16/2006 |
| 7013032 | Method and apparatus for secondary capture of 3D based images on a picture archival and communications (PACS) system An image management system (10), includes a PACS system. The PACS system (10) includes a PACS server (20) coupled to a communications network (22) and a plurality of PACS workstations (40) also coupled to a communications network (... | 03/14/2006 |
| 6988989 | Patient monitoring system A medical monitoring system includes a central station adapted to receive vital signs data concerning a plurality of patients, and one or more transmitter/receivers associated with the central station. At least one patient monitor is configured to monitor a particul... | 01/24/2006 |
| 6985762 | Network formatting for remote location oximetry applications The present invention provides an apparatus and method for formatting data from a pulse oximetry monitoring device to include display layout information for use by a remotely located display unit. In this regard, the remotely located display unit is in data communic... | 01/10/2006 |
