Colin Thomas Taylor

US Patent:

7374536, May 20, 2008

Filed:

Apr 16, 2004

Appl. No.:

10/826210

Inventors:

Colin R. Taylor - New York NY, US

International Classification:

A61B 5/00
G01N 33/48

US Classification:

600300, 702 19

Abstract:

A method uses body images and computer hardware and software to collect and analyze clinical data in patients experiencing pain. Pain location information is obtained by the drawing of an outline of the pain on a paper copy or electronic display of the body image. Composite images are generated representing aggregate data for specified patient groups. The coordinates of common anatomic landmarks on differently designed body images are mapped to each other, permitting integrated analysis of pain data, e. g. , pain shape, centroid, meta centroid, from multiple body image designs and display of all pain data on a single body image design. Differences and similarities between groups of patients are displayed visually and numerically, and are used to assign the probability of a given patient belonging to a particular diagnostic group or category of disease severity.

US Patent:

53016793, Apr 12, 1994

Filed:

May 31, 1991

Appl. No.:

7/708748

Inventors:

Colin R. Taylor - New York NY

Assignee:

Taylor Microtechnology, Inc. - New York NY

International Classification:

A61B 700

US Classification:

128773

Abstract:

A method and a system for evaluation of a human disease by recording body sounds for extended periods of time by a microphone placed in contact with the body of the patient and using computer processing of body sound data to provide frequency domain and time domain sound amplitudes. A computer reads out a converted measurement of a sound taken by the microphone and places the data on the computer data bus for further processing. The method and system provide a diagnostic information on diseases, such as certain diseases of the gastro-intestinal tract and the heart, which generate abnormal body sounds and provide assessment of patient progress during treatment of such disease entities.

US Patent:

62090046, Mar 27, 2001

Filed:

Aug 28, 1996

Appl. No.:

8/704265

Inventors:

Colin R. Taylor - New York NY

Assignee:

Taylor Microtechnology Inc. - New York NY

International Classification:

G06F15/00

US Classification:

707500

Abstract:

A method and system use a processor, video display and relational database to format, define, generate, maintain, distribute and analyze sets of related documents. The process stores document-specific data in a relational database. A computer-controlled video display guides the document author through the creation and maintenance of the documents, while enforcing the document structure and dependency rules. The creation of documents that relate to activities that require multiple actions at specified time points is driven by a time/action electronic matrix that serves as a central control mechanism for each document set; an example is a document set for use in clinical research studies of drugs. Document sets may be electronically transferred between computers by initial storage at each computer of assembly instructions and formatting information and content common to all documents in the document set, and subsequently by transmitting only document-specific information for each document, with assembly of the document being performed by the receiving computer.

US Patent:

40414680, Aug 9, 1977

Filed:

Oct 7, 1976

Appl. No.:

5/730628

Inventors:

John H. Perry - Silver Spring MD
David S. Salsburg - New London CT
Colin R. Taylor - Waterford CT

Assignee:

Pfizer Inc. - New York NY

International Classification:

G06F 312

US Classification:

364900

Abstract:

An ambulatory electrocardiographic tape recording (DCG) taken over an extended period of time, such as 24 hours, is analyzed with substantial accuracy by randomly selecting a sample of time periods of a specific duration (such as a 2% sample) and printing out a hard copy record of the electrocardiogram at these times for visual analysis. The simplicity of this method and the system performing it combined with high accuracy in quantifying cardiac arrhythmias makes it perferable for most clinical purposes to conventional methods of analyzing DCG's.