* Chris: Chen's patent is very broad and seems to cover virtually
every use of differential pulse transit times, i.e. the difference
between two sensors, regardless of the type of sensor. His pqatent
was taken by VSM Medtech, and is now owned y BpPro. A product
that used 3 sensors would not be covered.
What we are doing falls under the "fair use". Prior
art addresses PTT, time between peaks or the time between the
peaks on the same artery. Pulse Wave Curve Matching. (PWCM).
We need to determine: 1) what is not covered under existing patents,
and how to change a method so it is not covered under a method
patent, 3) which technology is covered and which isn't.
* Larry: Inability to get people together at the lab the other
night.
* Chris: Will continue with the Chen patent. Legal requirement
so that all software is publicly licensed. Will look at open source
licensing models.
* Larry: The prototype team will be meeting this Tuesday at the
IEEE Lab at the University of Minnesota
* Bob: We should be able to bypass the Chen patent by choosing
the correct equation.
* El: Our next meeting of the Coordinating team is on October
26th (4th Sunday) and we are not meeting on October 12th (2nd
Sunday).
* Larry: Please send an email reminding members that we are not
meeting 10/12, so that it looks different.
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