Patents Examined by Sana Sahand
  • Patent number: 11517261
    Abstract: The present application provides a method and device for determining inner and outer sides of limbs, and relates to the field of wearable devices. The method comprises: acquiring first somatosensory information of a first side of a limb of a user, the first side being an inner side or an outer side of the limb; and determining whether the first side is the inner side of the limb according to the first somatosensory information and reference information. The method and device facilitate a device that the user wears to perform automatic setting according to an identification result, thereby enhancing user experience.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 10, 2015
    Date of Patent: December 6, 2022
    Assignee: BEIJING ZHIGU TECH CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Hao Liu
  • Patent number: 11491322
    Abstract: A catheter pump system is disclosed. The catheter pump system can include a shaft assembly and an impeller coupled with a distal portion of the shaft assembly. The catheter pump system can include a motor assembly, the motor assembly comprising a chamber and a shaft-driving portion disposed in the chamber. The shaft-driving portion can be configured to impart rotation to the impeller through the shaft assembly. The chamber can be filled with a gas that at least partially surrounds the shaft-driving portion. A fluid pathway can convey fluid proximally during operation of the catheter pump system. A bypass pathway can be in fluid communication with the fluid pathway, the bypass pathway configured to direct at least a portion of the fluid to bypass the chamber.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 19, 2017
    Date of Patent: November 8, 2022
    Assignee: TC1 LLC
    Inventors: Paul F. Muller, Keif M. Fitzgerald, Michael R. Butler, Todd Jenkins
  • Patent number: 11490858
    Abstract: A removable wearable device sleeve includes a sleeve body, one or more sensors, and an interface for operative communication with the wearable device. A removable sleeve includes a sleeve body having a front element having a first aperture, a back element having a second aperture, a tubular element having a first end and a second end with a third aperture, and one or more back elements define a cavity to encase an earpiece, an interface, and a sensor, wherein the sensor communicates sensor readings to the wearable device through the interface. A method of placing a sensor configured to communicate with a wearable device onto the wearable device includes providing a removable sleeve and inserting the wearable device through the first aperture of the front element into the cavity of the removable sleeve to provide a removable wearable device sleeve.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 31, 2017
    Date of Patent: November 8, 2022
    Assignee: BRAGI GmbH
    Inventors: Peter Vincent Boesen, Jake Berry Turner
  • Patent number: 11484371
    Abstract: A device sized and shaped for insertion into a body comprising: at least one mechanical limb comprising: a support segment; a first flexible section extending from the support segment and terminating in a coupling section; and a second flexible section extending from the coupling section and terminating in a tool or a connector for a tool; wherein a long axis of one or more of the flexible sections is bendable in a single bending plane; wherein a long axis length of the first flexible section is at least double a maximum extent of the first flexible section perpendicular to a flexible section long axis; wherein a long axis length of the second flexible section is at least double a maximum extent of the second flexible section perpendicular to a flexible section long axis.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 22, 2016
    Date of Patent: November 1, 2022
    Assignee: Momentis Surgical Ltd
    Inventors: Dvir Cohen, Eli Shapira
  • Patent number: 11464592
    Abstract: A hand-held electromechanical surgical device configured to selectively connect with a surgical accessory, is provided and includes a handle assembly having a power pack with a core assembly. The core assembly includes a plurality of motors, with each motor having a rotatable drive shaft extending therefrom, wherein each drive shaft is parallel to one another; a processor connected to and configured to control each motor; and a battery electrically connected to the processor and each motor. The power pack includes an inner housing encasing at least the plurality of motors, the processor, and the battery. The handle assembly includes an outer shell housing configured to selectively encase substantially the entire power pack therein, wherein a rotation from each rotatable drive shaft of each motor is transmitted through the inner housing and the outer shell housing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 11, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 11, 2022
    Assignee: Covidien LP
    Inventors: Earl M. Zergiebel, Matthew Chowaniec
  • Patent number: 11452476
    Abstract: A detection report data generation method including acquiring event type information of an electrocardiogram event corresponding to electrocardiogram event data, wherein the event data has one or more pieces of event type information; screening the event data according to signal quality evaluation indexes so as to obtain report conclusion data and report entry data; carrying out quality assessment on an event segment included in the event data according to the signal quality evaluation indexes, and determining a pre-selected sample segment according to a quality assessment result; determining position information of an event heart beat in the pre-selected sample segment, and determining segment interception parameters; carrying out interception processing on the pre-selected sample segment according to the segment interception parameters so as to obtain a typical data segment; generating report graphic data according to the typical data segment; and outputting the entry data, the graphic data and the conclusi
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 12, 2018
    Date of Patent: September 27, 2022
    Assignee: Shanghai Lepu CloudMed Co., Ltd
    Inventors: Kaifeng Zang, Haitao Lu, Pengfei Zhao, Yan Jiang, Baoquan Wang, Jun Cao
  • Patent number: 11443853
    Abstract: A system and method for creating and presenting a rolling severity of illness acuity score are comprised of two phases. The first phase analyzes historical physiologic and clinical data from a hospital's EMR system and discovers data patterns that presage a deleterious outcome. These data patterns are stored in a first database. Once these patterns have been revealed, the second phase involves embedding these patterns into a hospital's EMR, collecting data on new patients in near-real time, matching up this data against the patterns uncovered in Phase One, and producing a score based on how many of these deleterious patterns a patient is exhibiting. This score is updated continuously, weighting the current value higher than previous scores. If this rolling score surpasses a specific value, an alert is generated. The alert, in one example a color-coded signal, is then sent to a mobile device or tablet of the clinicians caring for the patient.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 8, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 13, 2022
    Assignee: Prescient Healthcare Consulting, LLC
    Inventor: Andrew Alan Kramer
  • Patent number: 11439811
    Abstract: A method, including obtaining information indicative of a phenomenon sensed at a read electrode of a cochlear implant electrode array relative to a reference and/or at a read electrode remote from the electrode array relative to a reference, where one of the electrodes of the cochlear implant electrode array was energized executing a first analysis of the information to identify one or more first meanings from among a first group of meanings of the sensed phenomenon, conditioning the obtained information based on the identified one or more first meanings, and executing a second analysis of the conditioned information to identify one or more second meanings from among a second group of meanings of the sensed phenomenon.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 18, 2017
    Date of Patent: September 13, 2022
    Assignee: Cochlear Limited
    Inventors: Ángel Ramos de Miguel, Sr., Ángel Manuel Ramos Macías, D. Juan Carlos Falcon Gonzalez, Riaan Rottier, Christopher Bennett
  • Patent number: 11419521
    Abstract: Disclosed herein are systems comprising sensor devices that may be affixed to a patient and used to perform clinical measurements such as measurements for calculating a BASMI score. A first sensor device is configured to be successively attached to each of a wrist carrier, an ankle carrier, and a headset carrier. The carriers are attached to, or positioned next to, the relevant portion of the patient's body in order to perform particular measurements relating to generating a BASMI score. As the patient performs the routine of motions associated with a particular BASMI measurement, the sensor device records the measurements and communicates the measurements to a user computing device. A second sensor device is configured to be applied to the patient's torso and an additional measurement of patient flexibility taken and communicated to the user computing device. The user computing device generates a BASMI score from the recorded measurements.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 26, 2017
    Date of Patent: August 23, 2022
    Assignee: Janssen Pharmaceutica NV
    Inventors: Kenneth David Fernandez Prada, Ivan Avila
  • Patent number: 11406274
    Abstract: A system, device and method for automatically and remotely acquiring sensor data from a wearable patch mounted on a patient. An example device implemented as a wearable patch includes a sensor assembly comprising a plurality of sensors configured to detect a corresponding plurality of sensory modalities and generate electrical signals representing the sensory modalities. A signal converter receives the electrical signals from the plurality of sensors and converts the signals to sensor data signals comprising a data representation of at least one of the electrical signals. A communications interface communicates the sensor data signals to a sensor data processing system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 12, 2017
    Date of Patent: August 9, 2022
    Assignee: Alio, Inc.
    Inventors: Francis Honore, Samit Kumar Gupta, David John Kuraguntla, James Reich, Anthony Flannery, Jr., Jivko Mihaylov
  • Patent number: 11410682
    Abstract: A method includes: prompting a user to recite a story associated with a first target emotion; recording the user reciting the story and recording a first timeseries of biosignal data via a set of sensors integrated into a wearable device worn by the user; accessing a first timeseries of emotion markers extracted from the voice recording; labeling the first timeseries of biosignal data according to the first timeseries of emotion markers; generating an emotion model linking biosignals to emotion markers for the user based on the first emotion-labeled timeseries of biosignal data; detecting a second instance of the first target emotion exhibited by the user based on a second timeseries of biosignal data and the emotion model; and notifying the user of the second instance of the first target emotion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 2, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 9, 2022
    Assignee: Sentio Solutions, Inc.
    Inventors: Georgios Eleftheriou, Panagiotis Fatouros, Charalampos Tsirmpas
  • Patent number: 11406832
    Abstract: In some examples, controlling delivery of therapy includes using an implantable medical device comprising at least one electrode. Processing circuitry of a system comprising the device may receive, from an application running on a patient personal device, a patient request entered by the patient into the application. The processing circuitry may further determine, based on the patient request, a requested value of a therapy parameter, compare the requested value to information stored in a memory of the medical device system, the information indicating one or more allowable values of the therapy parameter, determine that the requested value is one of the allowable values based on the comparison of the requested value of the therapy parameter to the one or more allowable values, and control the implantable medical device to deliver cardiac pacing via the at least one electrode according to the requested value for a period of time.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 27, 2018
    Date of Patent: August 9, 2022
    Assignee: Medtronic, Inc.
    Inventors: Reece W. Holbrook, Nathan E. Johnson, Paul R. Solheim, Patrick D. Wells
  • Patent number: 11406283
    Abstract: This document discusses, among other things, systems and methods to determine an indication of heart failure with preserved ejection fraction (HFpEF) of a subject using a determined change in cardiac acceleration information of the subject at exertion relative to cardiac acceleration information of the subject at rest. The system can include a signal receiver circuit configured to receive cardiac acceleration information of a subject and exertion information of the subject, and an assessment circuit configured to determine the change in cardiac acceleration information of the subject at exertion relative to cardiac acceleration information of the subject at rest, and to determine an indication of HFpEF of the subject using the determined change in cardiac acceleration information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 10, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 9, 2022
    Assignee: Cardiac Pacemakers, Inc.
    Inventors: Pramodsingh Hirasingh Thakur, Bin Mi
  • Patent number: 11398301
    Abstract: Technologies are generally described for normalized standard deviation transition based dosimetry monitoring for laser treatment. In some examples, a response signal may be generated based on a physical response to a laser pulse detected through acoustic or optical means. Each response signal may be a time series of data with a number of points. Standard deviation may be determined for each response signal and normalized using a mean or comparable normalization factor. Thus, a robust distribution may be computed from the response to each laser pulse. A change in the normalized standard deviation from each single pulse's time domain response data may be used to determine how many laser pulses remain before completion of the treatment (similar to event onset response). Thus, laser treatment may be continued based on an estimation of remaining pulses for completion or ceased if completion is reached.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 2, 2018
    Date of Patent: July 26, 2022
    Assignee: LUTRONIC VISION INC.
    Inventor: Ezekiel Kruglick
  • Patent number: 11389617
    Abstract: Disclosed is a sleep induction device which exhibits excellent hypnotic effects using light rather than ultrasonic waves or electrical voltages to induce sleep. When the face of a patient is irradiated with diffused ultra narrow band light having a FWHM of 10 nm or less, the specified wavelength of light has excellent hypnotic effects. The sleep induction device is provided with: an ultra narrow band light irradiation means which generates a blue to green ultra narrow band light having a FWHM of 10 nm or less and a peak wavelength range of 430-550 nm; and a diffusion means for reducing the illumination intensity of the light irradiated from the ultra narrow band light irradiation means onto the skin surface of the face to 1-300 lux, and expanding the emission area to the entire face. The green ultra narrow band light has a sleep-inducing effect, and the blue one has a stronger sleep-inducing effect.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 13, 2010
    Date of Patent: July 19, 2022
    Assignee: Mignon Bell Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Masahiro Ogasawara
  • Patent number: 11388799
    Abstract: A phototherapy system includes a channel driver, a first microcontroller and a pad comprising a string of light-emitting diodes (LEDs). The pad also comprises a second microcontroller that autonomously controls the string of LEDs such that the LEDs are controlled even if communication between the first microcontroller and the pad is interrupted.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 6, 2019
    Date of Patent: July 12, 2022
    Assignee: Applied BioPhotonics Ltd.
    Inventors: Richard K. Williams, Keng-Hung Lin, Laura E. Williams
  • Patent number: 11375942
    Abstract: A method for extracting f wave from a single-lead electrocardiography signal is provided. The method includes: establishing a two-channel temporal convolutional neural network model, including two coding submodules, two mask estimation submodules, an information fusion module and two decoding submodules; constructing a training data set of ECG signals; training the two-channel temporal convolutional neural network model, and saving the trained model. The two-channel temporal convolution neural network encodes and decodes a QRST complex and the f wave respectively, and uses a mask of information fusion to estimate and construct regular items to restrict a distribution difference of QRST component coding features, so as to reduce the distortion of the QRST complex, select potential features of a QRST complex and f wave with high signal-to-noise ratio, and thus improve a detection accuracy of the f wave.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 8, 2021
    Date of Patent: July 5, 2022
    Assignee: GUANGDONG UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY
    Inventors: Jun Lu, Lei Li, Shengli Xie, Jie Luo, Zongze Wu, Qiyu Yang, Sihai Qiu, Binbin Yan, Dewei Chen
  • Patent number: 11350821
    Abstract: An ambulatory medical device and a method of communication between medical devices are disclosed. In one embodiment, the medical device includes a module for communication with at least a second medical device wherein the module for communication is adapted to be activated by a value of a physiological parameter of an animal. In one embodiment, the method of the present invention involves a first medical device and at least a second medical device wherein the communication between said medical devices is activated by a value of a physiological parameter of an animal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 1, 2007
    Date of Patent: June 7, 2022
    Assignee: ROCHE DIABETES CARE, INC.
    Inventors: Matthias Essenpreis, Ulrich Haueter, Nicole Bernini, Sybille Fankhauser, Sebastiaan La Bastide, Gunnar Meyer Olden, Michael Schoemaker, Kelly Heaton, Joel Jeckelmann
  • Patent number: 11324972
    Abstract: The present disclosure discloses a laser verification apparatus employed in a radiotherapeutic device which comprises a plurality of radioactive sources, a collimator comprising a plurality of collimating holes, and a couch. The radioactive sources are capable of aligning in respect to the collimating holes respectively.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 21, 2014
    Date of Patent: May 10, 2022
    Assignee: OUR NEW MEDICAL TECHNOLOGIES
    Inventor: Haifeng Liu
  • Patent number: 11318324
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a treatment apparatus and a control method for the treatment apparatus, and provides a treatment apparatus and a control method for the treatment apparatus, the treatment apparatus comprising: a treatment unit for transferring therapeutic energy at a preset period to a treatment position; a temperature measurement unit for measuring a temperature of the treatment position at a period different from the period at which the therapeutic energy is transferred; and a control unit for controlling an operation of the treatment unit on the basis of a result of measurement by the temperature measurement unit. The present invention enables a user to control a treatment content while accurately understanding the temperature of the treatment position, and thus can improve a treatment effect while preventing thermal damage to tissue.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 8, 2016
    Date of Patent: May 3, 2022
    Assignee: LUTRONIC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Won Joong Kim, Jae Yong Hong, Jong Tae Kim