MICHAEL CHRISTOPHER DOODY
Pilots at Ft Sanders West Blvd, Knoxville, TN

6603997, Aug 5, 2003

Nov 2, 2001

10/002364

Michael C. Doody - Knoxville TN 37919

A61B 505

600547

A probe penetration detector system and method of operation is disclosed for verifying the location of a probe within a patient during a surgical procedure. The system includes an electrically conductive antenna such as a probe adapted for insertion into body tissue and into a body cavity. A transmitter generates transmitted signals of a selected frequency range that are transmitted to the probe by an electrical connection or inductive coupling between the probe and transmitter for optimizing the conductance of transmitted signals to the probe. As the antenna probe is inserted through the body tissue and into a body cavity, a detector monitors feedback signals of energy reflected from the probe. As the feedback signals change in relation to the antenna probe location, an operator determines when the feedback signals are optimized, therefore providing notification that the antenna probe is positioned within a preferred tissue layer or body cavity.

2010028, Nov 11, 2010

May 5, 2009

12/435479

Michael C. DOODY - Knoxville TN, US

G02B 6/00

385147

A light diffusing safety cap for use with a light guide that couples an endoscope to a high intensity light source is shown and described in detail herein. The light diffusing safety cap is coupled, in lieu of the endoscope, to the light guide. The high intensity light source emits a high intensity light, when activate, which is sufficient to cause thermal harm within a selected time. The light diffusing safety cap reduces the intensity of the high intensity light to inhibit thermal harm and emits the reduced intensity light to provide an indication that the high intensity light source is activate.

5172693, Dec 22, 1992

Jan 16, 1990

7/465510

Michael C. Doody - Knoxville TN

A61B 600

128633

This invention describes a process for the diagnosis of meconium stained amniotic fluid. Meconium staining is often the result of ongoing or transient fetal distress or prolonged gestation. This process involves the non-invasive illumination of the amnion with light of a specific wavelength and detecting the fluorescence of certain biological pigments contained within the meconium. The process uses a source of light and a means of selecting the desired wavelength of light, directing the light to the target area, retrieving the fluorescence, converting the fluorescent emission to an electrical signal, amplifying the signal and analyzing the signal with a data processing unit.

7991260, Aug 2, 2011

Oct 18, 2010

12/906468

Michael C. Doody - Knoxville TN, US
William T. Milam - Maryville TN, US

SensorMed, Inc. - Knoxville TN

G02B 6/00, G02B 6/42, G02B 6/32, G02B 6/36, G02B 6/06

385139, 385 31, 385 32, 385 33, 385 34, 385 92, 385 93, 385 94, 385116, 385117, 385119, 385134, 385140, 385147

A light-diffusing safety cap for use with a light cable that couples an endoscope to a high intensity light source. The light-diffusing safety cap can be detachably or releasably coupled, in lieu of the endoscope, to the light cable, such that when the high intensity light source emits a high intensity light and the endoscope is not connected to the light cable, the light-diffusing safety cap reduces the intensity of the high intensity light emitted to the environment and provides an indication that the high intensity light source is activated when the endoscope is not connected to the light cable.

5514598, May 7, 1996

Nov 30, 1993

8/159794

Michael Doody - Knoxville TN

G01N 3353, G01N 33543, C07K 1618, C07K 1702

436518

Meconium State Pregnancy is diagnosed by analysis of prenatal maternal fluids for the presence of specific meconium antigens, including a specific meconium protein antigen of approximately 14 KD.