Patents Examined by Aya Ziad Bakkar
  • Patent number: 11446514
    Abstract: A method for application of light to one or more eyes (300) of a user is disclosed. The method comprises identification (110) of location of an optic disk (330) on a retina (320) in the one or more eyes (300) and selectively applying (115) the light onto the optic disc (330) to stimulate the optic disk (330).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 5, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 20, 2022
    Assignee: DOPAVISION GMBH
    Inventors: Hamed Bahmani, Christain Lautner, Markus Müschenich
  • Patent number: 11439838
    Abstract: A neural probe structure includes a probe that is inserted into a subject, a body to support a rear end of the probe, at least one light source included in the body, a photo diode formed in the probe, and an optical waveguide extending from the at least one light source in the body to the photo diode of the probe, wherein the photo diode is formed at a smaller height than the optical waveguide.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 8, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 13, 2022
    Assignee: KOREA INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY
    Inventors: Il-Joo Cho, Namsun Chou
  • Patent number: 11413084
    Abstract: Methods for treating eating disorders and for reducing a risk associated with developing an eating disorder in patients via therapeutic renal neuromodulation and associated systems. Renal sympathetic nerve activity can be attenuated to improve a patient's eating disorder status or risk of developing an eating disorder. The attenuation can be achieved, for example, using an intravascularly positioned catheter carrying a therapeutic assembly configured to modulate the renal sympathetic nerve.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 28, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 16, 2022
    Assignee: MEDTRONIC ARDIAN LUXEMBOURG S.A.R.L.
    Inventors: Gabriel Lazarus, Douglas Hettrick
  • Patent number: 11389664
    Abstract: Light therapy devices and systems configured to apply light to a portion of skin are described. In an embodiment, the light therapy device comprises a sheet defining two opposing major sides, wherein the sheet is configured to transmit light through the sheet by internal reflection, and wherein a portion of a light emission side of the two opposing major sides is configured to couple with the portion of skin and defines micropatterning configured to emit light from within the sheet; and a light source configured to emit light into the sheet between the two opposing major sides.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 12, 2019
    Date of Patent: July 19, 2022
    Assignee: L'Oreal
    Inventor: Ozgur Emek Yildirim
  • Patent number: 11376417
    Abstract: A cardiac assist device including a sleeve configured to externally wrap around a native, intact heart; a motor, and a drive shaft that connects the motor to the sleeve, wherein, actuation of the motor and the drive shaft provides a synchronized assisting force to a pumping force of the native, intact whole heart, thereby helping contraction and expansion of the heart located within an internal volume defined by the sleeve. Some embodiments relate to a system for synchronizing the cardiac assist device with a heart including the cardiac assist device; a power supply connected to the motor; and an electrical connector-relay configured to receive electrical signals from the pacemaker and to generate actuating signals that are relayed to the motor and the drive shaft, wherein, during operation of the system in a subject, the heart is assisted in contracting synchronously with the pacemaker signal rhythm.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 6, 2019
    Date of Patent: July 5, 2022
    Assignee: THE REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA
    Inventor: Arash Kheradvar
  • Patent number: 11369784
    Abstract: Methods for synchronizing the actions of a pulsatile cardiac assist device with a dysfunctional heart using a cardiac pacemaker. Aspects include receiving a signal from the pacemaker and actuating the pulsatile cardiac assist device in response to the signal from the pacemaker to either help push blood out of the heart during systole or to help suck blood from the atria during diastole.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 6, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 28, 2022
    Assignee: THE REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA
    Inventors: Arash Kheradvar, Ronald J. Hosmer
  • Patent number: 11369313
    Abstract: A patch-type sensor module is provided. A patch-type sensor module according to one embodiment of the present invention comprises: a power supply unit electrically connected with a flexible circuit board; a sensing unit which is mounted on the flexible circuit board and includes a temperature sensor for measuring a user's body temperature; a communication unit which allows power to be supplied using a wake-up function, wherein a pairing with an external communication module is concurrently established when power is supplied, and information measured through the sensing unit is then transmitted to the external communication module; a control unit for controlling operations of the power supply unit, the sensing unit, and the communication unit; and a protection member for preventing the flexible circuit board, the power supply unit, the sensing unit, the communication unit, and the control unit from being exposed to the outside.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 12, 2017
    Date of Patent: June 28, 2022
    Assignee: Amolifescience Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Beom Jin Kim, Yun Hee Chung, Ji Hyun Lee, Kyung Hyun Ryu
  • Patent number: 11357589
    Abstract: The illustrated embodiments include an apparatus to reduce or eliminate full thickness injury in tissue and to deform tissue which includes a probe or mechanism for deforming tissue, and a subsystem for selectively cooling and/or heating tissue while deformation is of the tissue is being performed. The illustrated embodiments of the invention also extend to a method to reduce or eliminate full thickness injury in tissue and to deform tissue including the steps of deforming tissue, and selectively cooling and/or heating tissue while deformation of the tissue is being performed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 5, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 14, 2022
    Assignee: THE REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA
    Inventor: Brian Jet-Fei Wong
  • Patent number: 11357470
    Abstract: In one embodiment, a system for identifying a biomedical condition of a subject includes apparatus for collecting blood flow sounds from the subject and a computing device that stores computer-executable instructions that are configured to: receive the collected blood flow sounds, extract acoustic heart pulses from the collected blood flow sounds, segment the acoustic heart pulses to obtain acoustic heart pulse segments, compute a continuous time wavelet transform-based feature for each acoustic heart pulse segment, and perform clustering on the computed continuous time wavelet transform-based features to determine whether or not the subject is experiencing the biomedical condition.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 3, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 14, 2022
    Assignee: UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH FLORIDA
    Inventors: Prashanth Chetlur Adithya, Shraddha Pandey, Ravi Sankar, Wilfrido Alejandro Moreno
  • Patent number: 11350882
    Abstract: An arrangement for electrical charge equalization after generation of stimulation current pulse(s), containing a bridge circuit, switching elements, a bridge branch between two legs of the bridge circuit, into which a load resistance is introducible, and a power source for generating a stimulation current pulse, connected to the legs of the bridge circuit that enables an electrical current via one leg through the bridge branch and through a leg connected to the other end of the bridge branch with corresponding switch position. A capacitive element is in the bridge branch for generating a current for electrical charge equalization for current introduced by stimulation current pulse(s) and is configured such that, between one or more stimulation current pulses and a discharge of the capacitive element via stimulation electrode(s), a delay time window is maintained, which is used for measuring electrical physiological signals induced as a reaction to the stimulation current pulse(s).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 4, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 7, 2022
    Assignee: inomed Medizintechnik GmbH
    Inventors: Matthias Baag, Hanno Gao, Michael Tomilov
  • Patent number: 11350835
    Abstract: A wearable device for reflecting a fatigue level of a human body is disclosed. The device comprises a physiological signal acquisition module, a signal conditioning module, a parameter extraction module and a decision module. The physiological signal acquisition module is configured to acquire physiological signals of a testee. An output end of the physiological signal acquisition module is connected to an input end of the signal conditioning module. The signal conditioning module is configured to perform signal conditioning on the physiological signals. An output end of the signal conditioning module is connected to an input end of the parameter extraction module. The parameter extraction module is configured to extract time-domain and frequency-domain parameters in a specific time window. An output end of the parameter extraction module is connected to an input end of the decision module. The decision module is configured to decide a fatigue level of the testee.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 10, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 7, 2022
    Assignee: Jiangsu Garea Health Technology Co. LTD
    Inventors: Xinjing Zhang, Xiaodong Wang, Jisong Hu, Haofang Yang
  • Patent number: 11317970
    Abstract: There is provided a process for treatment of rhinitis by diode laser ablation of the posterior nasal nerves. The laser diode delivery device with elongated optic tip is inserted through a patient's nostril and has the length, flexibility and a curvature to reach both above and under the patient's middle turbinate for treatment to both posterior nasal nerves. Skin and tissue temperature is raised to approximately 60-65° C. with the process. Optimal treatment wavelength was found to be approximately 940 nanometers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 8, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 3, 2022
    Inventors: Yosef Krespi, Ron Hadani, Victor Kizhner, Karen Wilson
  • Patent number: 11311777
    Abstract: An electronic device is provided. The electronic device includes a housing, a touch screen display to be exposed through a first portion of the housing, a motion sensor disposed inside the housing, a photoplethysmography (PPG) sensor disposed in a second portion of the housing, a processor operatively coupled to the display, the motion sensor, and the PPG sensor, and a memory operably coupled to the processor. The memory stores instructions that allow, when executed, the processor to receive first data from the motion sensor, identify whether a user has started exercise based on at least a portion of the first data, receive second data from the PPG sensor after identifying whether or not the user has started exercise, and determine the type of exercise of the user based on at least a portion of the first data and the second data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 4, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 26, 2022
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Inho Yun, Jinho Kim, Seunghwan Shin, Junseok Oh, Sunghwan Cho
  • Patent number: 11298557
    Abstract: A defibrillator that may include circuitry for supplying a dose of electric current to a heart of a patient; and a location device; wherein the location device comprises a controller for controlling the location device, a receiver for receiving a location request, and a location response unit for generating a location response; wherein the location response is indicative of a location of the defibrillator.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 8, 2018
    Date of Patent: April 12, 2022
    Inventors: Nir Geva, Zeev Rotstein
  • Patent number: 11284809
    Abstract: A method, system, apparatus, and/or device to determine a condition of a user based on a heartbeat waveform. The method, system, apparatus, and/or device may include: a miniaturized impedance sensor configured to take a measurement from a muscular-walled tube within a body part of a user, where the miniaturized impedance sensor includes a first set of miniaturized electrodes configured to generate a signal within the muscular-walled tube and a second set of miniaturized electrodes configured to measure the signal; and a processing device programmed to interrogate the muscular-walled tube via the miniaturized impedance sensor. The processing device may be configured to generate the signal by the first set of miniaturized electrodes; measure the signal by the second set of miniaturized electrodes; generate a heartbeat waveform; and determine a condition of the user based on the heartbeat waveform.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 30, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 29, 2022
    Inventors: Robert Davis, Nick Morrill, David Miller
  • Patent number: 11278734
    Abstract: Exemplary system and method are provided for affecting nail growth rate, which can use a light dosage and a wavelength of light to affect a growth rate of a nail of a subject. For example, it is possible to detect a presence of a nail using, e.g., a presence detector. The nail can be irradiated over a treatment time with a light having a wavelength and a power, e.g., using a narrowband light source. Further, using a controller, it is possible to control one or more of the power and the treatment time to irradiate the nail with a light dosage that is within a biphasic light dosage range bounded by a lesser light dosage and a greater light dosage. The wavelength of the light and the light dosage can be configured to affect a growth rate of the nail.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 2, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 22, 2022
    Assignee: BLOSSOM INNOVATIONS, LLC
    Inventor: Vincent Zuo
  • Patent number: 11273322
    Abstract: An apparatus for laser therapy comprises a frame on which a plurality of lasers slide at several wavelengths in motorized and automated manner for applying the laser on and through the skin and mucous membranes of a patient. The frame is also motorized, allowing installation on the patient without moving the patient from bed. The apparatus is programmed to determine treatment autonomously on the basis of parameters determined by the apparatus during pretreatment and to vary treatment parameters in real time for treatment optimization and safety purposes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 7, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 15, 2022
    Assignee: K-LASER D.O.O.
    Inventors: Francesco Zanata, Mauro Zanata, Andrea Zanata, Enrico Zanata
  • Patent number: 11266385
    Abstract: A method for controlling a plurality of surgical devices includes: receiving a foot pedal signal indicating a foot pedal activation of a first foot pedal of a plurality of foot pedals; generating a control signal based on the foot pedal signal, wherein: if the foot pedal signal indicates that only the first foot pedal is pressed, then generating the control signal to cause a generator to activate a first surgical device associated with the first foot pedal; if the foot pedal signal indicates that the first foot pedal remains pressed and a second foot pedal is newly pressed, then generating the control signal to cause the generator to: maintain activation of the first surgical device associated with the first foot pedal; and not activate a second surgical device associated with the second foot pedal; and outputting the control signal to the generator.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 4, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 8, 2022
    Assignee: Verily Life Sciences LLC
    Inventors: Jonathan Tseng, James Shuma
  • Patent number: 11246520
    Abstract: Systems, methods, and computer-readable media for classifying a PTSD status. In an embodiment, an example method for using a classifier can comprise receiving information from electrocardiography performed on an individual; determining features from the information; comparing the features to the a logistic regression classifier trained using features determined from median quiescent segments of RR interval information from individuals with and without PTSD, wherein the median quiescent segments are non-overlapping time periods of lowest median HR for each individual, and the features include one or more of the following: deceleration capacity (DC), low frequency (LF) power, very low frequency (VLF) power, and standard deviation of all normal RR intervals (SDNN); and determining a posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) status of the individual based on the comparison of the features to the classifier, wherein the PTSD status is a severity of PTSD based on a probability of PTSD.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 1, 2017
    Date of Patent: February 15, 2022
    Assignee: EMORY UNIVERSITY
    Inventors: Gari Clifford, Erik Reinertsen, Amit Shah, Shamim Nemati
  • Patent number: 11235167
    Abstract: A method of administering light treatment to a biological surface comprising administering light therapy from one or more light sources and administering distraction stimulus from one or more distraction mechanisms. The distraction stimulus is configured to distract a user from a discomfort caused by the light therapy.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 30, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 1, 2022
    Assignee: L'Oreal
    Inventor: Lily Truong