David J Oakley

US Patent:

20100017225, Jan 21, 2010

Filed:

Sep 25, 2009

Appl. No.:

12/567249

Inventors:

David Oakley - Boulder CO, US
Michael Hickey - Boulder CO, US

Assignee:

WAVi - Boulder CO

International Classification:

G06Q 50/00

US Classification:

705 2

Abstract:

The Customized Medical Diagnostic Apparatus operates under the control of a physician to implement a patient-specific instance of the apparatus by identifying medical information sources, retrieved from a Digital Library, which correlate to anomalies identified in a set of patient medical data relating to an identified patient or identified class of patient. The system includes a Digital Library for providing access to a plurality of information sources which relate to interpreting patient medical data and possible ailments associated with the patient medical data. A data characterization module calculates control variations of a set of patient medical data to identify anomalies. Based upon this statistical analysis, a Digital Library interface module searches the Digital Library for information sources relating to the set of patient medical data and interpretations of the identified anomalies.

US Patent:

20110015503, Jan 20, 2011

Filed:

Sep 24, 2010

Appl. No.:

12/889655

Inventors:

David Joffe - Boulder CO, US
David Oakley - Boulder CO, US

Assignee:

WAVi - Boulder CO

International Classification:

A61B 5/0476
A61B 5/11

US Classification:

600301, 600544

Abstract:

The EEG Processing Unit comprises a semi-rigid framework which substantially conforms to the Patient's head and supports a set of electrodes in predetermined loci on the Patient's head to ensure proper electrode placement. The EEG Processing Unit includes automated connectivity determination apparatus which can use pressure-sensitive electrode placement ensuring proper contact with Patient's scalp and also automatically verifies electrode placement via measurements of electrode impedance through automated impedance checking. Voltages generated by the electrodes are amplified and filtered before being transmitted to an analysis platform, which can be a Physician's laptop computer system, either wirelessly or via a set of tethering wires. The EEG Processing Unit includes an automatic artifacting capability which identifies when there is sufficient clean data compiled in the testing session. This process automatically eliminates muscle- or other physical-artifact-related voltages. Clean data, which represents real brain voltages as opposed to muscle- or physical-artifact-related voltages, thereby are produced.

US Patent:

20110015942, Jan 20, 2011

Filed:

Sep 24, 2010

Appl. No.:

12/889697

Inventors:

David Oakley - Boulder CO, US
Owen S. Robertson - Denver CO, US
Ambarish Jash - Superior CO, US

Assignee:

WAVi - Boulder CO

International Classification:

G06Q 50/00
G06Q 90/00

US Classification:

705 2, 705500

Abstract:

The Medical Diagnostic Apparatus implements a physician-operated medical data analysis system for assisting a physician in identifying ailments and conditions which correlate to anomalies identified in a set of patient medical data relating to an identified patient. This system includes a plurality of biomarkers which relate to interpreting patient medical data and possible ailments associated with patient medical data. A data characterization module displays biomarkers selected by a physician and a set of patient medical data, collected from and about an identified patient, to compare the set of patient medical data with biomarkers of known ailments to enable the physician to identify an ailment representative of the patient medical data.

US Patent:

20110099026, Apr 28, 2011

Filed:

Sep 24, 2010

Appl. No.:

12/889682

Inventors:

David Oakley - Boulder CO, US
Michael Hickey - Boulder CO, US

Assignee:

WAVI - Boulder CO

International Classification:

G06Q 50/00

US Classification:

705 2

Abstract:

The Patient Data Management System operates under the control of a physician to implement a patient-specific instance of the apparatus which is capable of accessing at least one data manipulation module, each defining at least one process for transforming patient medical data pursuant to a predefined schema. A patient medical data processor is responsive to the physician selecting a set of patient medical data, at least one of the data manipulation modules, and an order of applying the selected data manipulation modules to the selected patient medical data for processing the selected patient medical data using the selected data manipulation modules in the selected order to identify data indicative of a predetermined condition in the selected patient medical data. A display is available for presenting a visualization of the data indicative of a predetermined condition in the selected patient medical data.

US Patent:

52296105, Jul 20, 1993

Filed:

Feb 6, 1992

Appl. No.:

7/833434

Inventors:

James A. McNeil - Boulder CO
David S. Oakley - Lake Oswego OR
Charles E. Price - Boulder CO

Assignee:

Colorado School of Mines - Golden CO

International Classification:

G01N 2300

US Classification:

250308

Abstract:

A low-cost detector of hydrogen-containing compounds in gas or thin-film samples is disclosed. The device preferably includes an alpha particle source, an energy degrading medium, a charged particle detector (e. g. a solid state diode detector), and amplification, threshold, counting, logic, timing circuits, humidity correction apparatus, and alarm/display. The invention relies upon the use of the energy degrading foil to pass selectively certain particles. Energetic alpha particles from a radioactive source enter the sample and hydrogen nuclei, or protons, elastically scattered by alpha particles, are able to penetrate the energy degrading foil which is thick enough to stop the alpha particles. The protons are detected and a suitable output signal can be produced to provide an accurate measure of the quantity of hydrogen in the gas or thin-film sample. The hydrogen detector can be combined with a smoke detector to produce an apparatus capable of detecting both smoke and hydrogen.