Fiberoptic patient health multi-parameter monitoring devices and system

US8009946B2 · kind B2 · utility

Assignee

• General Electric Company · US

Inventors

• Hua Xia · Altamont, US
• David Michael Davenport · Niskayuna, US
• Daniel Francis Strauch · Ellicott City, US
• Steven M. Falk · Baltimore, US
• Mark L. Kelly · Middletown, US
• Marilyn Ruth Lapidus · Columbia, US
• Lynn E. Lynam · Bel Air, US
• Lawrence G. Ten Eyck · Ellicott City, US
• Clayton Young · Schenectady, US

Key dates

• Filing date: Jan 22, 2008
• Grant date: Aug 30, 2011
• Expiry date: Apr 15, 2028

Classification

• Technology area (CPC A): Human Necessities
• CPC primary: A61B2562/0271
• WIPO field: Medical technology
• WIPO sector: Instruments

Abstract

A patient monitoring system includes a plurality of diffraction gratings integrated along the length of an optical fiber, wherein the optical fiber and each grating are together configured to alter either the effective refractive index or grating periodicity of the respective grating at its corresponding location along the fiber in response to at least one desired external stimulus.