Donald L Dixon

US Patent:

60528494, Apr 25, 2000

Filed:

Mar 18, 1998

Appl. No.:

9/040954

Inventors:

Donald L. Dixon - Anchorage KY
Robert L. Havens - Marysville IN

Assignee:

Center for Orthotic & Prosthetic Care, L.L.C. - Louisville KY

International Classification:

A47C 2000
A47G 902

US Classification:

5643

Abstract:

A cranial suspension apparatus to prevent positional plagiocephaly in an infant by distributing loads on the head of the infant lying in the supine position on a horizontal surface. The infant is placed in the apparatus such that the head of the infant is supported on a flexible porous support material with the tension of the material adjusted to support the head just above or just touching the sleep surface. The flexible porous support material may be a net with an open weave. The apparatus prevents localized pressure on the infant's head in an area contacting a sleep surface when infants are routinely placed in the supine position, which is recommended to avoid sudden infant death syndrome.

US Patent:

20200168344, May 28, 2020

Filed:

Nov 26, 2018

Appl. No.:

16/199519

Inventors:

Donald L Dixon - Chapel Hill NC, US

International Classification:

G16H 80/00
G16H 20/00
A61F 2/30

Abstract:

This invention discloses a method for selection of a proper prosthetic device for a patient utilizing joint decision making and information gathering by a patient, clinician, and physician utilizing a computerized Physician Communication System, wherein a clinician evaluates a patient and enters the patient's information into a smart device that communicates with a computer system and a dynamic database that stores the information and also has prosthetic device specific information where software is capable of propagating the information through other devices, a computer system and the database in real time where the clinician selects a prosthetic device for a patient, uploads the selection, and a physician consults the database to evaluate the choice of device for the patient, and can accept, change, or otherwise edit the information and choice based on the physician's examination of the patient.