Patents Examined by Sean D Mattson
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Patent number: 11963822Abstract: An intraluminal imaging device includes a flexible elongate member sized and shaped for insertion into a vessel of a patient, the flexible elongate member including a proximal portion and a distal portion; an imaging assembly positioned at the distal portion of the flexible elongate member; and a bridge member at electrical ground and in contact with at least a portion of the imaging assembly to maintain the at least portion of the imaging assembly at electrical ground, wherein the bridge member is disposed in cylindrical configuration. Associated devices, systems, and methods are also provided.Type: GrantFiled: September 25, 2017Date of Patent: April 23, 2024Assignee: PHILIPS IMAGE GUIDED THERAPY CORPORATIONInventor: David Kenneth Wrolstad
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Patent number: 11950949Abstract: The invention relates to an anaesthesia procedure and associated anaesthetic equipment (3). In said procedure, a first respiratory gas (G1) is supplied to an anaesthetized patient (15) through a ventilator (3) with unidirectional flow or rapidly alternating flow direction. At least one adjustment parameter (F) of the ventilator (3) is controlled or regulated in such a manner that a current position (LA) of at least one body part (36) of the patient (15) is adjusted to a specified desired position (LS).Type: GrantFiled: October 25, 2019Date of Patent: April 9, 2024Assignee: Siemens Healthineers AGInventors: Alois Regensburger, Amilcar Alzaga
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Patent number: 11950804Abstract: A puncture device guide includes a body member configured to fixedly attach to an ultrasound probe, a slide member slidingly received within the body member; and a cradle member slidingly received within the slide member and longitudinally fixed relative to the body member. The cradle member is configured to receive a puncture device therein. Longitudinal movement of the slide member causes radial movement of the cradle member relative to the body member.Type: GrantFiled: October 2, 2020Date of Patent: April 9, 2024Assignee: INNOVACELL AGInventor: Craig Joseph Cermak
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Patent number: 11944479Abstract: A medical image diagnosis apparatus according to an embodiment includes a gantry and a processor. The gantry includes an imaging system configured to perform an imaging process on a subject by using one of radiation and magnetism. The processor is configured to generate a second image by combining a first image acquired by imaging the subject while using an optical imaging device different from the imaging system, with a plane related to an imaging position in the imaging process using the imaging system.Type: GrantFiled: October 5, 2020Date of Patent: April 2, 2024Assignee: CANON MEDICAL SYSTEMS CORPORATIONInventor: Nobuhide Ono
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Patent number: 11938348Abstract: The subject matter of the present disclosure generally relates to techniques for neuromodulation of a tissue (e.g., an organ) that include applying energy (e.g., ultrasound energy) into the tissue to cause altered activity at a synapse between a neuron and a non-neuronal cell. In one embodiment, the energy is applied to cause competing or opposing effects for bi-directional control of physiological processes.Type: GrantFiled: March 6, 2019Date of Patent: March 26, 2024Assignee: GENERAL ELECTRIC COMPANYInventors: Christopher Michael Puleo, Victoria Eugenia Cotero
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Patent number: 11937975Abstract: The present disclosure provides systems, apparatuses and methods that include a catheter configured to be inserted into an intra-body cavity of a patient. An ultrasonic transducer array including a plurality of multi-frequency ultrasonic transducers may be arranged on the catheter. Each of the plurality of multi-frequency ultrasonic transducers may be configured to transmit a wide beam ultrasonic signal and a narrow beam ultrasound signal, and may further be configured to receive a wide beam echo signal and narrow beam echo signal. A processor may be configured to detect free space of the intra-body cavity by processing the wide beam echo signals and the narrow beam echo signals.Type: GrantFiled: September 18, 2020Date of Patent: March 26, 2024Assignee: BIOSENSE WEBSTER (ISRAEL) LTD.Inventors: Alon Baram, Zvi Menachem Friedman, Meir Bar-Tal
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Patent number: 11918380Abstract: A minimally invasive examination device for assisting in the positioning of an interventional instrument in the body of a patient. The device allows improved positioning of an interventional instrument in the body of a patient. The device comprises: a coupling element on which at least one first sensor is arranged and that is coupled to a proximal end of the interventional instrument, as a result of which the first sensor is connected to the interventional instrument (16) via the coupling element, a signal detection and processing device that is connected to the first sensor in a wireless or wired manner so as to transmit signals, wherein the signal detection and processing device (20, 34) is designed to process the signals from the first sensor, and a display device that is designed to visually display processing results from the signal detection and processing device.Type: GrantFiled: June 26, 2018Date of Patent: March 5, 2024Assignee: Surag Medical GmbH.Inventors: Alfredo Illanes Manriquez, Michael Friebe, Axel Boese, Ali Pashazadeh, Ivan Maldonado Zambrano
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Patent number: 11911215Abstract: For intraluminal ultrasound probes, the transducer is divided into multiple segments. The segments are connected in a way that allows them to slide relative to each other. This sliding arrangement allows for the transducer to be used in two different apertures at different times while in the patient. One aperture is shaped for insertion of the probe through a limited space, and the other aperture forms an array with a larger elevation extent, allowing greater quality imaging along the elevation dimension.Type: GrantFiled: May 26, 2021Date of Patent: February 27, 2024Assignee: Siemens Medical Solutions USA, Inc.Inventors: Vasant Salgaonkar, Lex J. Garbini, William R. Dreschel
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Patent number: 11911634Abstract: Embodiments of the present disclosure relate to techniques for facilitating personalized neuromodulation treatment protocols. In one embodiment, a predetermined treatment position of an energy application device is used to guide future treatments for the patient. In one embodiment, a position of the energy application device relative to the predetermined treatment position is determined. In one embodiment, a total dose of ultrasound energy applied to the region of interest is determined.Type: GrantFiled: January 10, 2022Date of Patent: February 27, 2024Assignee: GE Precision Healthcare LLCInventors: Christopher Michael Puleo, Yang Zhao, Kirk Dennis Wallace, Ying Fan, Jeffrey Michael Ashe, David Andrew Shoudy
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Patent number: 11903609Abstract: An insertion site for a cannula (23) on a skin (8) of a patient is prepared by applying a skin cover unit (1) of the type comprising a window (2) and a wall (3) in extension of the window (2) and connected to the window (2) by a bending region (4) for bending the wall (3) into an angled orientation relatively to the window (2); wherein the win-dow (2) comprises a stabilizing frame (5) and an ultrasonic-transparent flexible sheet (6) within the frame (5). The flexible sheet (6) is glued onto the skin (8) of the patient for ultrasonic investigation of the insertion site through the flexible sheet (6). By bending the bending region (4), the angular orientation of the wall (3) is adjusted into an approximately perpendicular orientation relatively to the window (2) for separating the insertion site from the flexible sheet (6) by the wall (3).Type: GrantFiled: January 25, 2019Date of Patent: February 20, 2024Assignee: US ENOVACOR APSInventors: Thomas Fichtner Bendtsen, Erik Sloth, Lars Knudsen, Neal Joseph Buchalter
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Patent number: 11903715Abstract: A system and method for a wearable field sensing device for biological electromagnetic (EM) field measurement including: a wearable structure; a biological sensor array, on or within the wearable structure, such that each biological sensor is situated adjacent to the body of the user, and wherein each biological sensor includes at least one ferromagnetic resonance (FMR) sensor; a power system, providing the power for the system; and control circuitry, electrically coupled to the system. The FMR sensor comprises an acoustically driven ferromagnetic resonance (ADFMR) sensor. The system may additionally include sensor shielding and an ambient sensor array to detect a block external fields.Type: GrantFiled: January 28, 2021Date of Patent: February 20, 2024Assignee: Sonera Magnetics, Inc.Inventors: Nishita Deka, Dominic Labanowski
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Patent number: 11896428Abstract: An ultrasound system is disclosed. Embodiments in accordance with the present invention include a transducer configured to acquire pulse-echo data at each transmit frequency bandwidth of interest. In addition, a bandpass filter is configured to receive a signal of the pulse-echo data, wherein the signal is bandpass-filtered over a plurality of frequencies. Further, a processor is configured to calculate a spatial coherence of the bandpass-filtered signal. The spatial coherence of the signal is calculated in a spatial domain or a frequency domain. The spatial coherence is used to predict target conspicuity. The processor selects a preferred frequency based on and, preferably, to realize, the target conspicuity.Type: GrantFiled: October 26, 2020Date of Patent: February 13, 2024Assignee: Duke UniversityInventors: James Long, Nicholas Bottenus, Willie J. Long, Gregg E. Trahey
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Patent number: 11872042Abstract: A calibration system for a magnetometer having an unknown gain is disclosed. A calibration magnetic field is generated at a calibration frequency of a known amplitude at the magnetometer. A measurement of the calibrating magnetic field is reported by the magnetometer. A ratio of an amplitude of the calibration magnetic field measurement reported by the magnetometer and the known amplitude of the calibrating magnetic field at the magnetometer is computed. The unknown gain of the magnetometer is determined at least partially based on computed ratio.Type: GrantFiled: January 27, 2021Date of Patent: January 16, 2024Assignee: HI LLCInventors: Julian Kates-Harbeck, Vincent Maurice, Ricardo Jimenez-Martinez, Jamu Alford, Benjamin Shapiro
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Patent number: 11864869Abstract: The invention presents an apparatus (6) for characterization of a condition of a vessel (12) wall of a living being (2). The relationship between temporal blood pressure (621) and blood flow (622) measurements of pulsatile blood motion within the vessel (12) is an indication of the health of the vessel (12) wall. Furthermore, the invention discloses a system (1) comprising the apparatus (6), and a method (100) of characterizing the condition of vessel (12) walls.Type: GrantFiled: December 11, 2021Date of Patent: January 9, 2024Assignee: KONINKLIJKE PHILIPS N.V.Inventor: Daniel Simon Anna Ruijters
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Patent number: 11857811Abstract: Systems and methods are disclosed related to using acoustic waves to detect neural activity in a brain and/or localize the neural activity in the brain. Sensors positioned outside of a skull encasing the brain can detect acoustic waves associated with the neural activity in the brain. From output signals of the sensors, a particular type of neural activity (e.g., a seizure) can be detected. A location of the neural activity can be determined based on outputs of the sensors. In some embodiments, the ultrasound energy can be applied to the location of the neural activity in response to detecting the neural activity.Type: GrantFiled: February 7, 2022Date of Patent: January 2, 2024Assignee: The Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior UniversityInventors: Butrus T. Khuri-Yakub, Kamyar Firouzi, George Quintin Stedman
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Patent number: 11839437Abstract: A surgical instrument assembly may include a processor, a surgical instrument configured to operate on an anatomical structure, and a display coupled to the processor and attached to the surgical instrument. The processor can be configured to determine a position of the medical imaging device, from which the medical imaging device can generate an X-ray image that includes holes of an intramedullary nail shown as circles, for instance perfect circles. In an example, the processor identifies the intramedullary nail, so as to determine an intramedullary nail identity, and determines the position of the medical imaging device based on a portion of at least two locking holes of the intramedullary nail and based on the intramedullary nail identity.Type: GrantFiled: December 19, 2022Date of Patent: December 12, 2023Assignee: DePuy Synthes Products, Inc.Inventors: Mario Mata, André Furrer, Glen Pierson
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Patent number: 11839350Abstract: Disclosed herein are systems, devices, and methods for providing continuous, non-invasive blood pressure monitoring. A wearable monitoring device includes first and second transducer arrays separated by a fixed distance. Each of the transducer arrays includes a plurality of independent transducer elements for transmitting and receiving ultrasound energy. When a user wears the device, the transducers are positioned near the brachial artery. The device operates to measure the transit time of a cardiac pulse through the brachial artery and across the fixed distance between transducer arrays. The measured pulse transit time may then be used for determining pulse wave velocity and/or blood pressure.Type: GrantFiled: May 3, 2019Date of Patent: December 12, 2023Assignee: MONOVO, LLCInventors: Jarom Shurtliff, Adam Kaleo Roberts, Jonathan Muñoz, Christopher Hogstrom, Steven Ray Taylor, Paul Randal Cloward
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Patent number: 11839512Abstract: Devices, systems, and methods are disclosed for use in tomographic ultrasound imaging, large aperture ultrasound imaging and therapeutic ultrasound that provide for coupling acoustic signal transducers to body structures for transmitting and receiving acoustic signals. The acoustic signal transmission couplants can conform to the receiving medium (e.g., skin) of the subject such that there is an acoustic impedance matching between the receiving medium and the transducer. In one aspect, an acoustic coupling medium includes a hydrogel including polymerizable material that form a network structured to entrap an aqueous fluid inside the hydrogel.Type: GrantFiled: December 3, 2021Date of Patent: December 12, 2023Assignee: DECISION SCIENCES MEDICAL COMPANY, LLCInventors: Evan Freiburg, Dustin Kruse
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Patent number: 11801114Abstract: Devices and methods for performing an interventional vascular procedure with visual guidance using one or more optical head mounted displays are disclosed. Devices and methods for compensating the display of an optical head mounted display for cardiac and/or respiratory motion are disclosed.Type: GrantFiled: September 11, 2018Date of Patent: October 31, 2023Inventor: Philipp K. Lang
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Patent number: 11793418Abstract: A system for EIT imaging comprises an electrode array for positioning on a patient and measuring an impedance distribution, a data entry unit and a calculation unit. The electrode array contains a visual aid coupled to the electrode array for visually indicating the position of at least one electrode, the data entry module accepts an entry of data describing the position of the visual aid, and the calculation unit calculates the position of the individual electrodes relative to the patient's body and provides correction for the image creation algorithm. A sensor device for EIT imaging may comprise the electrode array, which is connectable to an EIT imaging system comprising a data entry unit and a calculation unit. An EIT imaging method may employ the system or sensor device.Type: GrantFiled: November 11, 2017Date of Patent: October 24, 2023Assignee: SENTEC AGInventors: Peter Krammer, Andreas Waldmann, Josef Brunner