Peter F Miller

US Patent:

7845424, Dec 7, 2010

Filed:

May 8, 2008

Appl. No.:

12/149791

Inventors:

Peter C. Miller - Burke VA, US

International Classification:

A62C 35/00

US Classification:

169 13, 169 67

Abstract:

A packaged residential fire pump system for sprinkler protection of one- and two-family dwellings. The system independently provides sufficient water pressure, and volume, for a two sprinkler flow for a period of time. An existing domestic water supply is supplemented with a dead water storage tank. The system can be combined with hydraulically sized, or scheduled, system piping and sprinkler heads.

US Patent:

47858877, Nov 22, 1988

Filed:

Mar 3, 1987

Appl. No.:

7/021336

Inventors:

Peter Miller - Arlington VA

Assignee:

Lifesaving Systems, Inc. - Alexandria VA

International Classification:

A62C 3708

US Classification:

169 37

Abstract:

A sprinkler head is adjustably supported in three dimensions by an assembly including a first bracket having a cut-out and a second bracket having a cut-out. The first bracket has a circumferentially evenly spaced array of three threaded apertures around the cut-out. The second bracket has a similar set of unthreaded holes around its cut-out. Bolts extend through the second bracket and are threaded into the apertures of the first bracket. Nuts on the bolts may be used as stop elements. The second bracket is attached to fingers extending from the downcomer pipe to which the sprinkler head is attached. In a second embodiment, three fingers are provided, and they replace the second bracket. Adjustment of the sprinkler head about two orthogonal axes and along a third orthogonal axis parallel to the downcomer pipe can be achieved by turning the bolts from beneath the false ceiling through which the sprinkler head extends.

US Patent:

20180177520, Jun 28, 2018

Filed:

Feb 21, 2018

Appl. No.:

15/900999

Inventors:

- Baltimore MD, US
Peter Miller - Silver Spring MD, US

International Classification:

A61B 17/32
A61B 1/07

Abstract:

HIFU (High-Intensity Focused Ultrasound) sometimes FUS or MIFUS is a highly precise medical procedure using high-intensity focused ultrasound to heat and destroy pathogenic tissue rapidly in the brain for neurosurgical purposes, by causing coagulation necrosis. Here we have described a system that uses specially designed micro-transducer heads that are placed inside the later ventricles for the purposes of MIFUS lesioning of brain targets under real time MRI, endoscopic and Doppler guidance. A minimally invasive approach using Kocher's point allows small incisions with little bleeding, recovery time, infection risk and surgical time. This approach allows insertion of the micro-ultrasound transducers into the lateral ventricles of the brain avoiding skull bone attenuation of the ultrasonic waves and unnecessary heating of brain tissues in the process.