Additional circuitry stores information regarding where the system (S) failed during the diagnostic testing and retrieves such information for the user upon reset.Ī software system uses virtual functions to control communication between independent software modules configured in an architecture which includes a parent process and one or more independent child processes. However, when the CPU (29) is not functioning properly, the hardware reset signal resets the CPU (29). When functioning properly, the CPU (29) prepares for the hardware reset signal that is produced by the reset circuitry (28) and avoids being reset by the hardware reset signal. The reset signal serves as an input to reset circuitry (28) which immediately transmits a nonmaskable interrupt (NMI) to the CPU (29) and, after a delay period, transmits a hardware reset signal to the CPU (29). Typically this time period relates to a diagnostic program being run. A real-time clock (RTC) (21), programmed by a central processing unit (CPU) (29) to run for a period of time, produces a reset signal after the period of time elapses. Bank notably assisted in the development of a clinical protocol for treating patients with metastatic brain cancer.A watchdog timer circuit of the present invention monitors a computer system (S) during diagnostic testing and resets the system when it is nonfunctioning. Bank, MD’s biotechnology consulting work over the past decade and a half has included engagements with Bradmer Pharmaceuticals, Inc., Athersys Pharmaceuticals, Inc., Guilford Pharmaceuticals, Inc., and Protein Design Labs, Inc. He also held a position as SBC Warburg Dillon Read’s Senior Equity Analyst and Director of Biotechnology, prior to its acquisition by UBS AG. Bank subsequently served in senior positions with the Lehman Brothers Holdings company Liberty View Health Sciences Fund (a division of Liberty View Capital Management). In 1995, he founded First-Tier Biotechnology Partners, guiding the life science hedge fund until its 2004 purchase by Lehman Brothers Holdings, Inc.ĭr. The company’s at-home AIDS and HIV testing product achieved premarket approval from the FDA, but it did not reach the market due to USAT’s acquisition. Bank, MD, expanded into entrepreneurial activities in 1986, co-founding the medical firm USAT.

Bank has maintained faculty affiliation with the University of Southern California (USC) School of Medicine’s Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology for 30 years. He notably served as Medical Commissioner at the 1984 Los Angeles Summer Olympic Games. Bank, MD, maintained Attending Physician responsibilities at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles, from the early 1980s until 1995. From 1980 to 1982, he held responsibilities as Chief of Gynecology at Beverly Hills Medical Center and Century City Doctors Hospital. Bank obtained his MD from the Finch University of Health Sciences, The Chicago Medical School, subsequently completing residencies at New York’s Mount Sinai Medical Center and Baltimore’s Johns Hopkins School of Medicine.

Bank, MD, 67, draws on decades of experience in the medical technology and financial investment fields. As President of the Beverly Hills consultancy BioVest Advisors LLC, Richard W.

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