Patents Examined by Sebastian X Lukjan
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Patent number: 11540705Abstract: A welded structure, in which a second tubular member is welded to an inner circumference of a first tubular member made of metal, the second tubular member being made of metal and having an outer diameter smaller than an inner diameter of the first tubular member, includes welded portions at which a portion of the first tubular member and a portion of the second tubular member are melted and solidified, a surface melted and solidified from an inner circumferential surface side of the first tubular member toward an end surface of the second tubular member forms a smoothly-continuous curved surface, and the first and the second tubular members are bonded to each other. A portion of each of the welded portions is located on an outside of a projection region obtained by projecting the second tubular member onto an outer surface of the first tubular member.Type: GrantFiled: August 13, 2019Date of Patent: January 3, 2023Assignee: OLYMPUS CORPORATIONInventors: Takeshi Hidaka, Jumpei Otake, Harutaka Kondo
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Patent number: 11540889Abstract: A medical instrument system includes actuators, a medical instrument, and a control system operably connected to the actuators. The medical instrument includes an end portion and transmission systems, each of which couples the end portion to an actuator of the actuators such that the actuators are operable to drive the transmission systems to move the end portion. The control system is configured to execute operations including determining a difference between a current configuration of the end portion and a desired configuration of the end portion, and operating the actuators to apply tensions to the transmission systems based on the difference and based on constant offset tensions. The constant offset tensions are independent of current tensions experienced by the transmission systems.Type: GrantFiled: September 10, 2018Date of Patent: January 3, 2023Assignee: Intuitive Surgical Operations, Inc.Inventors: Gabriel F. Brisson, Nicola Diolaiti, David W. Weir, Dimitrios Chatzigeorgiou
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Patent number: 11529060Abstract: A method for providing personalized health assessment of a subject includes: receiving a raw electrocardiography (ECG) signal of a subject from an ECG device and a raw blood pressure (BP) signal of the subject from a BP waveform detector; calculating a beat-to-beat ECG signal from the raw ECG signal; calculating a beat-to-beat BP signal from the raw BP signal; calculating a beat-to-beat pulse arrival time (PAT) signal that is measured as a time delay between the beat-to-beat ECG signal and the beat-to-beat BP signal; calculating an interpolated beat-to-beat PAT signal and an interpolated beat-to-beat BP signal by interpolating the beat-to-beat PAT signal and the beat-to-beat BP signal, respectively; assessing a subject-specific relationship between the interpolated beat-to-beat PAT signal and the interpolated beat-to-beat BP signal; and estimating a real-time blood pressure of the subject based on the subject-specific relationship.Type: GrantFiled: August 2, 2019Date of Patent: December 20, 2022Inventors: Evelien Hermeling, Eva Wentink
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Patent number: 11529181Abstract: Disclosed is a plasma skin care device including a handpiece, an ozone decomposition module, and a suction fan. The handpiece has a plasma generator and discharges plasma in a state in which a front end portion of the plasma generator is adjacent to skin. The ozone decomposition module is configured to receive and decompose ozone, which is generated when the plasma is discharged, from the handpiece. The suction fan is configured to draw the ozone generated in the handpiece to the ozone decomposition module by suction pressure.Type: GrantFiled: April 1, 2020Date of Patent: December 20, 2022Assignee: AGNES MEDICAL CO., LTD.Inventor: Gunyoung Ahn
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Patent number: 11527863Abstract: A method for emitting laser light in the form of laser pulses, including the steps: planning a laser pulse based on pulse parameters, checking whether laser pulses which were emitted within a predefined preceding time interval, together with the planned pulse, meet a predefined energy criterion, and emitting the planned laser pulse with the aid of an emitting unit if the energy criterion is met, and not emitting the planned laser pulse or reducing a power of the laser pulse if the energy criterion is not met.Type: GrantFiled: January 16, 2019Date of Patent: December 13, 2022Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbHInventors: Benjamin Blase, Nico Heussner, Raimund Reppich
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Patent number: 11517385Abstract: The disclosure relates to an actuation unit (16) for a medical instrument (10) and to a medical instrument (10) with a shaft (12) which extends between a proximal end (20) and a distal end (22), wherein the instrument (10) is designed at the distal end (22) to receive an end effector (14), an actuation unit (16, 216) which is assigned to the proximal end of the shaft (12), and which has a plurality of drives (50, 52, 54, 56), and with at least two control trains (100, 102, 104, 106, 108, 110, 112, 114) which extend through the shaft (12), wherein the at least two control trains (100, 102, 104, 106, 108, 110, 112, 114) can be used for controlling at least one degree of freedom of the instrument, in particular for deflecting the end effector (14), wherein the at least two control trains (100, 102, 104, 106, 108, 110, 112, 114) comprise a first control train (100, 104, 108, 112) and a second control train (102, 106, 110, 114), and wherein the first control train (100, 104, 108, 112) is coupled to a first carrierType: GrantFiled: January 26, 2022Date of Patent: December 6, 2022Assignee: KARL STORZ SE & Co. KGInventor: Jochen Stefan
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Patent number: 11510578Abstract: A medical device, comprising a housing, a combined modular structure which is formed by connecting a board card and an interface panel to a main bracket; a first opening arranged on the housing for the insertion of the combined modular structure; a first locking structure for locking and fixing the combined modular structure to the housing; a screen assembly; a second opening arranged on the housing for mounting the screen assembly, and a second locking structure for locking and fixing the screen assembly to the housing. The integral arrangement of a functional module of a medical device helps to improve the assembly precision between various components, and ensure the reliability of the connection between components. The housing adopts an integral structure, has good waterproof and dustproof effects as well as low production costs; the present disclosure facilitates the assembly of board card and other components, as well as module configuration and modular testing while also having good seismic performance.Type: GrantFiled: February 22, 2019Date of Patent: November 29, 2022Assignee: Shenzhen Mindray Bio-Medical Electronics Co., Ltd.Inventors: Shenhui Dong, Xuegang Zhang, Chao Zhu, Jian Cen
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Patent number: 11504102Abstract: This invention is directed to a medical device having an elongate shaft having a distal end and a controller coupled to the shaft. A control member can extend through at least part of the elongate shaft and at least part of the controller, wherein the control member in a tensioned configuration can be moveable by the controller to control the distal end of the shaft and the control member can be slack in an untensioned configuration. A tensioning mechanism can be configured to move relative to at least one of the elongate shaft and the controller to tension the control member and automatically lock the control member in the tensioned configuration.Type: GrantFiled: March 8, 2019Date of Patent: November 22, 2022Assignee: Boston Scientific Scimed, Inc.Inventors: Larry Stanton, John Golden, Gary Kappel, Mark Wood, Bernadette Durr, Brandon Zalewski, Ken Keene, Barry Weitzner, Paul Smith, Naroun Suon
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Patent number: 11484268Abstract: A biological signal analysis device includes: an acquiring unit configured to acquire biological signals of a measurement target; a trigger information acquiring unit configured to acquire, from a stimulator configured to apply stimuli to the measurement target, trigger information indicating times at which the stimuli are generated; and a signal processing unit configured to process the biological signals. The signal processing unit is configured to calculate biological information on the measurement target based on the biological signals, maintain only pieces of trigger information corresponding to times at which it is determined that biological signals of the measurement target are generated, from the calculated biological information, delete another piece of trigger information, and use an averaged waveform that is obtained by performing an averaging process on the biological signals that are generated in synchronization with the stimuli based on the pieces of remaining trigger information.Type: GrantFiled: March 5, 2019Date of Patent: November 1, 2022Assignee: RICOH COMPANY, LTD.Inventors: Hideaki Yamagata, Eiichi Okumura, Noriyuki Tomita
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Patent number: 11471242Abstract: An illuminated microsurgical instrument comprises a distally projecting tubular member arranged to perform a medical procedure at an interventional site, a sheath member surrounding a portion of the tubular member, and an optical fiber extending along a length of the outer surface of the tubular member between the tubular member and the sheath member. A method of manufacturing an illuminated microsurgical instrument comprises placing an optical fiber on a positioning member, placing a sheath member around the optical fiber and positioning member and securing the sheath member to the optical fiber, removing material from a distal end of the sheath member and optical fiber at a non-perpendicular angle with respect to a longitudinal axis of the positioning member, removing the positioning member from within the sheath member, and placing the sheath member with the optical fiber secured thereto around a distally projecting tubular member.Type: GrantFiled: March 12, 2019Date of Patent: October 18, 2022Assignee: Alcon Inc.Inventor: Chenguang Diao
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Patent number: 11446084Abstract: The disclosure provides an apparatus and methods for performing a piotomy on a mammal comprising: performing a craniotomy to remove the skull and expose dura mater; removing the dura mater and arachnoid mater to expose subarachnoid space; and performing a piotomy using a laser to create a hole and expose the cerebral cortex.Type: GrantFiled: July 8, 2020Date of Patent: September 20, 2022Assignee: Neuralink Corp.Inventors: Dalton James Colen, Shivani Shah
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Patent number: 11439311Abstract: Blood pressure information measurement device includes cuff including first and second fluid bag accommodated in first fluid bag, pressure increase/reduction mechanism configured to increase and decrease pressure in first fluid bag internal space and pressure in an internal space of second fluid bag, control unit configured to control operation of pressure increase/reduction mechanism, pressure detection device configured to detect first fluid bag internal pressure, and calculation unit configured to calculate blood pressure information.Type: GrantFiled: August 8, 2019Date of Patent: September 13, 2022Assignee: OMRON HEALTHCARE CO., LTD.Inventors: Chisato Tawara, Minoru Taniguchi, Keita Ikeda, Hirotaka Hayashi, Masaki Harada
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Patent number: 11439474Abstract: A surgical tool includes a drive housing having a shaft extending distally therefrom, first and second drive members extending distally from the drive housing along the shaft, and first and second translating gears rotationally fixed to the shaft within the drive housing and operatively coupled to the first and second drive members, respectively. First and second drive gears are rotatably mounted within the drive housing to act on the first and second translating gears, respectively. Rotating the first and second drive gears in opposite angular directions causes the first and second translating gears to move axially along the shaft in opposing directions and thereby move the first and second drive members. Rotating the first and second drive gears in a same angular direction causes the first and second translating gears to rotate the shaft about a longitudinal axis.Type: GrantFiled: October 25, 2018Date of Patent: September 13, 2022Assignee: CILAG GMBH INTERNATIONALInventor: Kris Eren Kallenberger
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Patent number: 11433236Abstract: An exemplary sound processor is configured to maintain data representative of a frequency allocation table that maps frequencies in an upper region of an audible frequency range to a plurality of electrodes located within a cochlea of the first ear, receive an audio signal, direct a cochlear implant to apply standard electrical stimulation representative of frequencies in the audio signal that are within the upper region to the cochlea of the first ear by way of the plurality of electrodes in accordance with the frequency allocation table, and direct the cochlear implant to apply phantom electrical stimulation representative of frequencies in the audio signal that are within a lower region of the audible frequency range to the cochlea of the first ear by way of a most apical electrode and one or more compensating electrodes included in the plurality of electrodes in accordance with a phantom electrode stimulation configuration.Type: GrantFiled: July 30, 2019Date of Patent: September 6, 2022Assignee: Advanced Bionics AGInventor: Josef Chalupper
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Patent number: 11432778Abstract: Systems and methods are provided for false alarm suppression in patient monitoring systems. In one embodiment, a method comprises inputting each electronic signal of a plurality of electronic signals into a corresponding predictor cloud of a plurality of predictor clouds, each predictor cloud comprising a long short-term memory neural network and a recurrent neural network, and responsive to an alarm generated based on at least one of the plurality of electronic signals, suppressing the alarm responsive to outputs of the plurality of predictor clouds indicating the alarm is false. In this way, patient monitors may be more reliable with fewer false alarms.Type: GrantFiled: January 24, 2017Date of Patent: September 6, 2022Assignee: General Electric CompanyInventor: Kaveh Samiee
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Patent number: 11432768Abstract: An intraoral multisensor device includes a mouthpiece, a plurality of sensors at least one of attached to or integrated with the mouthpiece, and a data communications unit configured to receive signals from the plurality of sensors. The mouthpiece has a form to permit stable arrangement at least partially within a person's mouth such that it can remain for hands-free sensing of a plurality of biological parameters. Also, an intraoral multisensor system includes an intraoral multisensor device and a data processing device adapted to communicate with the intraoral multisensor device.Type: GrantFiled: April 27, 2020Date of Patent: September 6, 2022Assignee: Aidar Health, Inc.Inventor: Gene Yevgeny Fridman
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Patent number: 11426122Abstract: A glove is described to simultaneously, non-invasively, and continuously, over a period of time, monitor physiological parameters (e.g., blood pressure, blood glucose, oxygen saturation level, electrical activity of the heart, and/or heart rate) of a patient. A computing server that is either communicatively coupled to the glove or is a part of the glove uses the monitored physiological parameters to determine whether the patient has a physiological condition (e.g., hypotension, hypertension, hypoglycemia, hyperglycemia, hypoxia, hyperoxia, arrhythmia, a strong form of tachycardia, a mild form of tachycardia, and/or bradycardia). Related apparatuses, systems, methods, techniques and articles are also described.Type: GrantFiled: October 26, 2018Date of Patent: August 30, 2022Assignee: The Aga Khan UniversityInventors: Ayeesha Kamran Kamal, Saleem Sayani, Hafiz Imtiaz Ahmed, Hafsa Talat, Muhammad Abdul Muqeet, Ambreen Amir Ali, Shariq Ramzan Ali Khoja, Saad Abdullah
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Patent number: 11389238Abstract: A system for the treatment of targets under the skin of a patient comprising: a laser device for emitting a first series of laser pulses towards an area of the skin of a patient, where a target which must be reached by said laser pulses is located under said skin; a cooling system of said area of the skin by means of a cooling fluid; a first measurement sensor of a first temperature of said area of skin; a second measurement sensor of the temperature of said cooling fluid; said computer which receives the signals from said first and second temperature measurement sensor; said computer controls said laser device that emits a first series of laser pulses having predetermined power, duration and spacing; said temperature measurement sensor measures the temperature of said area of skin, following said first series of laser pulses; said computer calculates the predicted temperature reached of said area of the skin following the emission of a second series of pulses having said predetermined power, duration and spaType: GrantFiled: October 4, 2019Date of Patent: July 19, 2022Assignee: QUANTA SYSTEM S.P.A.Inventors: Cesare Plinio Franceschina, Marco Tagliaferri, Fabio Cannone
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Patent number: 11382552Abstract: An apparatus comprises an arrhythmia detection circuit configured to: receive a cardiac signal representative of cardiac activity of a subject; apply a first arrhythmia detection criteria to the received cardiac signal; apply, in response to the applied first arrhythmia detection criteria producing a positive indication of arrhythmia, a second arrhythmia detection criteria to the received cardiac signal, wherein the second arrhythmia detection criteria is more specific to detection of arrhythmia than the first detection criteria; detect, in response to the applied first and second arrhythmia detection criteria, a sensing event indicating one or both of the first and second arrhythmia detection criteria are susceptible to false indications of arrhythmia; and adjust, in response to a detected sensing event, sensitivity or specificity of one or both of the first and second arrhythmia detection criteria.Type: GrantFiled: July 23, 2018Date of Patent: July 12, 2022Assignee: Cardiac Pacemakers, Inc.Inventors: David L. Perschbacher, Sunipa Saha, Deepa Mahajan
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Patent number: 11382564Abstract: Described herein is a monitoring system that includes a foot diagnostic device. The foot diagnostic device is shaped to receive one or both of a user's feet. The foot diagnostic device is equipped with a number of sensors that may work together or separately from each other, which are able to measure different diagnostic attributes of the feet. The system includes a mobile application and the ability to transmit information to the mobile application and other locations such as a physician's office.Type: GrantFiled: December 28, 2018Date of Patent: July 12, 2022Inventors: Jose Antonio Gamboa-Pinto, Diana Rashel Valencia, Katia Lisbeth Avila Pinedo, Anh Thu Thi Tran, Evelyn Janet Casas, Melody Tran Sanchez, Alexander Patrick Ruper, Sushil Bohara, Jia Pauline Dimaano Bragado, Brianna Samantha Berdin