Magnetic Field Sensor (e.g., Magnetometer, Squid) Patents (Class 600/409)
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Patent number: 10848854Abstract: A system for estimating an indoor speed of an individual is provided. The system includes a motion sensor attachable to an upper body of the individual and at least one processor being in communication with the motion sensor. The processor is configured for periodically prompting the user to provide a speed value or instructing the user to run/walk at a specific speed value, extracting features from data collected by the motion sensor that correspond to the speed value and calculating a speed of the individual from a probabilistic model.Type: GrantFiled: June 21, 2017Date of Patent: November 24, 2020Assignee: Vi Labs LtdInventors: Zvi Orron, Yonathan Nativ, Jonathan Aprasoff, Omri Yoffe
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Patent number: 10816617Abstract: A method for an automatic or semi-automatic detection whether an MR examination of a person (12) is approved with a predetermined MR system (10) includes the following steps: Step 1: providing information whether and which contra-indication for such an MR examination is present for this person (12) (S1); Step 2: providing information about a location of a cause (30) of the contra-indication within the person (12) (S2); Step 3: determining a position of this cause (30) during the MR examination of the person with respect to at least one magnetic field coil (14, 16, 18) (S3); Step 4: determining at least one characteristic parameter of the magnetic field generated by the coil (14, 16, 18) at the position of the cause (30) during the MR examination (S4); and Step 5: automatically checking whether the MR examination is approved for the combination of the determined cause (30) of the contra-indication and the determined characteristic parameter of the magnetic field at the location of the cause (30) (S5).Type: GrantFiled: February 25, 2016Date of Patent: October 27, 2020Assignee: Koninklijke Philips N.V.Inventors: Marius Johannes Van Meel, Paul Augustinus Peter Kaufholz
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Patent number: 10786200Abstract: The present invention relates to a movement disorder monitor, and a method of measuring the severity of a subject's movement disorder. The present invention additionally relates to a drug delivery system for dosing a subject in response to the increased severity of a subject's symptoms. The present invention provides for a system and method, which can accurately quantify symptoms of movements disorders, accurately quantifies symptoms utilizing both kinetic information and electromyography (EMG) data, that can be worn continuously to provide continuous information to be analyzed as needed by the clinician, that can provide analysis in real-time, that allows for home monitoring of symptoms in subject's with these movement disorders to capture the complex fluctuation patterns of the disease over the course of days, weeks or months, that maximizes subject safety, and that provides remote access to the clinician or physician.Type: GrantFiled: December 20, 2017Date of Patent: September 29, 2020Assignee: Great Lakes NeuroTechnologies Inc.Inventor: Joseph Giuffrida
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Patent number: 10765364Abstract: A sensor garment for monitoring an individual engaged in an athletic activity includes a garment formed of textile material, and a sensor module inseparably coupled to the textile material of the garment. The sensor module includes a single-purpose sensor configured to sense a single characteristic, and a radio antenna configured to transmit data generated by the single-purpose sensor. The sensor module includes no external port.Type: GrantFiled: March 29, 2019Date of Patent: September 8, 2020Assignee: adidas AGInventors: Aurel Coza, Christian DiBenedetto, Ian Michael Munson
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Patent number: 10726454Abstract: Described herein is a mobile device trade-in facilitation system comprising: one or more servers configured to interact with one or more external data sources; a mobile application communication center configured to interact with one or more mobile devices; an analytic database; and a main processor configured to: initiate a trade-in value calculation based upon an event related to a mobile device; receive information from the mobile device related to characteristics of the mobile device via the mobile application communication center; receive first data related to the mobile device from the one or more servers; retrieve second data related to the mobile device from the analytic database; determine a trade-in value for the mobile device based upon one or more of: the information, the first data, and the second data; and transmit the trade-in value to the mobile device.Type: GrantFiled: October 21, 2014Date of Patent: July 28, 2020Assignee: Hyla, Inc.Inventors: David J. Edmondson, Biju Nair
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Patent number: 10677951Abstract: A method of processing controlled source electromagnetic (CSEM) data is provided for reducing the airwave contribution. CSEM data are acquired, for example using a conventional towed source (4) and receiver (5) arrangement. The recorded data are weighted in accordance with the geometrical spreading of the airwave component. The differences between pairs of weighted data records are then formed.Type: GrantFiled: January 19, 2010Date of Patent: June 9, 2020Assignee: STATOIL PETROLEUM ASInventors: Lars Ole Løseth, Lasse Amundsen, Arne Johannes Kaaijk Jenssen
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Patent number: 10653318Abstract: Provided are a localization system and method useful in the acquisition and analysis of cardiac information. The localization system and method can be used with systems that perform cardiac mapping, diagnosis and treatment of cardiac abnormalities, as examples, and in the retrieval, processing, and interpretation of such types of information. The localization system and method use high impedance inputs, improved isolation, and relatively high drive currents for pairs of electrodes used to establish a multi-axis coordinate system. The axes can be rotated and scaled to improve localization.Type: GrantFiled: May 13, 2016Date of Patent: May 19, 2020Assignee: ACUTUS MEDICAL, INC.Inventors: Daniel J. Welsh, Marcus F. Julian, Graydon E. Beatty, Xinwei Shi, Derrick R. Chou, Randell L. Werneth, J. Christopher Flaherty
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Patent number: 10548620Abstract: Described herein is a surgical instrument guide for use with a robotic surgical system, for example, during spinal surgery. In certain embodiments, the guide is attached to or is part of an end effector of a robotic arm, and provides a rigid structure that allows for precise preparation of patient tissue (e.g., preparation of a pedicle) by drilling, tapping, or other manipulation, as well as precise placement of a screw in a drilled hole or affixation of a prosthetic or implant in a prepared patient situation.Type: GrantFiled: August 8, 2017Date of Patent: February 4, 2020Assignee: Globus Medical, Inc.Inventors: Szymon Kostrzewski, Billy Nussbaumer, Roderik Berthelin, Chetan K. Patel
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Patent number: 10518098Abstract: The present invention discloses methods and systems to control magnetic fields and magnetic field induced currents, and more particularly to provide stimulations within a patient's body, such as deep brain stimulation, in a non-invasive manner and with greater focus and control than has been afforded by prior known methods and systems. In accordance with certain aspects of an embodiment, an array of magnetic coils is provided and positionable about a portion of a patient's body. During operation, at least some of the magnetic coils function as DC coil pairs configured to generate a DC magnetic field, while at least some DC coil of the other magnetic coils function as transient magnetic field generators to generate an induced current within a portion of the patient's body, such as in a region of the patient's brain.Type: GrantFiled: April 2, 2015Date of Patent: December 31, 2019Assignees: University of Maryland, Baltimore, University of Maryland, Baltimore CountyInventors: Liyi Elliott Hong, Fow-Sen Choa
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Patent number: 10517197Abstract: Apparatus and techniques for implementing an isolation chamber, and more particularly for implementing an EMF shielded isolation chamber. In various embodiments, an isolation tank includes a shell having an upper cover and a lower tank portion having one or more sidewalls connected to a floor. The lower tank portion is configured to hold liquid and the lower tank portion and the upper cover together define an interior chamber configured to receive a user. The isolation tank further includes a conductive shield associated with at least a portion of the shell and configured to shield at least a portion of the interior chamber from external electromagnetic fields. In various additional embodiments, the isolation tank includes a shield ground for electrically grounding the shield and/or a liquid ground for electrically grounding the liquid.Type: GrantFiled: November 2, 2018Date of Patent: December 24, 2019Inventor: David McGhee
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Patent number: 10512434Abstract: It is intended to quantitatively evaluate deterioration in brain function associated with a disease such as dementia, with a high degree of accuracy by a simplified method using signals acquired from a few sensors arranged on the scalp.Type: GrantFiled: July 22, 2015Date of Patent: December 24, 2019Assignee: NIPRO CORPORATIONInventors: Yuri Watanabe, Yohei Kobayashi, Toshimitsu Musha, Yukio Kosugi, Takashi Asada
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Device and method for the geometric determination of electrical dipole densities on the cardiac wall
Patent number: 10463267Abstract: Disclosed are devices, a systems, and methods for determining the dipole densities on heart walls. In particular, a triangularization of the heart wall is performed in which the dipole density of each of multiple regions correlate to the potential measured at various locations within the associated chamber of the heart.Type: GrantFiled: January 29, 2018Date of Patent: November 5, 2019Inventor: Christoph Scharf -
Patent number: 10441172Abstract: A brain image reconstruction apparatus can reconstruct a brain image as a sharper image. A brain image reconstruction apparatus has a data acquisition unit that acquires brain activity data of a user; a brain image reconstructor that detects image information from the brain activity data and constructs a brain image; a linguistic information detector that detects linguistic information from the brain activity data; an image database that stores sample images corresponding to the linguistic information; and an image processor that superimposes the sample image with the brain image, and constructs a process image.Type: GrantFiled: July 29, 2016Date of Patent: October 15, 2019Assignee: Seiko Epson CorporationInventors: Toshiyuki Tanaka, Hiroaki Hosomi
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Patent number: 10433790Abstract: A catheter assembly or other elongate tubular device for use in establishing vascular or other access within the body of a patient is disclosed. The catheter assembly is equipped with one or more sensors that enable monitoring of one or more physiological aspects of the patient or physical aspect of the catheter assembly itself when the catheter assembly is disposed within the patient. Such aspects include central venous pressure, body temperature, ECG heart signals, oxygen levels, ultrasound data, glucose, etc. The catheter assembly includes the ability to wirelessly transmit or otherwise forward data relating to the detected physiological parameters to another location, such as a patient electronic medical record, smartphone or other mobile device, nurse station, etc. Catheter assemblies configured to detect the frequency of catheter flushing, flushing quality, etc., are also disclosed.Type: GrantFiled: September 23, 2016Date of Patent: October 8, 2019Assignee: C. R. Bard, Inc.Inventors: Gidon Ofek, Blake Allen, Todd P. McFarland, Samuel A. Francis, Bret Hamatake
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Patent number: 10426363Abstract: A magnetoencephalography (MEG) measuring apparatus and an MEG measuring method. The MEG measuring apparatus includes a superconducting helmet having an inward brim, a sensor-equipped helmet disposed inside the superconducting helmet, a pick-up coil disposed inside the sensor-equipped helmet, and a superconducting quantum interference device (SQUID) sensor mounted on the sensor-equipped helmet and connected to the pick-up coil.Type: GrantFiled: March 3, 2016Date of Patent: October 1, 2019Assignee: Korea Research Institute of Standards and ScienceInventors: Kwon-Kyu Yu, Yong-Ho Lee, Kiwoong Kim, Jin-Mok Kim, Hyukchan Kwon, Sang-Kil Lee
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Patent number: 10349870Abstract: Methods of exerting magnetic forces to collect and manipulate magnetic particles disposed in a portion of subsurface vasculature using a wearable device are provided. The wearable device is configured to change the exerted magnetic force over time. For example, the exerted magnetic force could be sufficient to collect the magnetic particles during a first period of time and low enough to release the magnetic particles during a second period of time. The exerted magnetic force could be changed over time to vary some effect on the magnetic particles, for example to control a rate of release of collected magnetic particles. In some embodiments, the magnetic particles are configured to bind to an analyte of interest. The collection and manipulation of the magnetic particles can enable detection of one or more properties of the analyte, modification of the analyte, and/or extraction of the analyte bound to the magnetic particles.Type: GrantFiled: September 22, 2015Date of Patent: July 16, 2019Assignee: Verily Life Sciences LLCInventors: Vasiliki Demas, Vikram Singh Bajaj
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Patent number: 10314520Abstract: A system and method for collecting a set of kinematic data streams from an activity tracking system with at least one activity monitoring system that is attached to a user; segmenting at least a subset of the kinematic data streams into a set of segments according to actions of the user; generating a set of biomechanical signals from the kinematic data streams wherein a biomechanical signal characterize a biomechanical property during a segment and includes generating a first integration data set through data integration and baseline error correction across the set of segments of the normalized kinematic data stream and determining at least a first biomechanical signal that is at least partially based on the first integration data set; and applying the set of biomechanical signals.Type: GrantFiled: September 30, 2016Date of Patent: June 11, 2019Assignee: SEISMIC HOLDINGS, INC.Inventors: Andreas Martin Hauenstein, Ray Franklin Cowan, Andrew Robert Chang
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Patent number: 10271795Abstract: A catheter assembly including one or more conductive pathways is disclosed. The conductive pathways assist with initial placement of the catheter assembly into a patient's vasculature by enabling ECG signals emanating from the patient's heart to be detected. In addition, the conductive pathways are configured to be used to reconfirm via ECG signal detection proper placement of the catheter assembly at a time subsequent to initial catheter placement into the vasculature. In one embodiment, therefore, a catheter assembly is disclosed, comprising an elongate catheter tube defining at least one lumen, a first conductive pathway extending distally from a proximal point on the catheter assembly to a predetermined distal location on the catheter tube, and a second conductive pathway at least partially disposed on an outer surface of the catheter tube and extending distally from a proximal point of the catheter assembly to a predetermined distal location on the catheter tube.Type: GrantFiled: June 9, 2016Date of Patent: April 30, 2019Assignee: C. R. Bard, Inc.Inventor: Dennis L. Salzmann
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Patent number: 10238349Abstract: An imaging apparatus for diagnosis comprises a display unit configured to display a longitudinal-sectional image in a first display area, and display a cross-sectional image corresponding to an arbitrary position in an axial direction in the longitudinal-sectional image in a second display area; a signal processing unit divides the second display area into at least two individual areas in case of accepting an instruction to the effect that a predetermined operation is executed with respect to the first display area; and the signal processing unit displays indicators in the first display area, wherein in a case in which the second display area is divided into at least two individual areas, cross-sectional images corresponding to the axial direction position are displayed by at least two indicators in respective individual areas.Type: GrantFiled: March 28, 2012Date of Patent: March 26, 2019Assignee: TERUMO KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Junya Furuichi, Naoya Iwata
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Patent number: 10197518Abstract: Methods, devices and systems for three-dimensional location of the disposition of a sensor coil in a subject including are disclosed. The systems include an array of three or more triplet or quadruplet drive coil sets, at least one moveable sensor coil configured to be disposed in a subject and to provide one or more sensor coil response signals responsive to the respective electromagnetic wave fields, a receiving component configured to control drive signals to the array of drive coil sets and to measure sensor coil response signals from the moveable sensor coil, and a processor is configured to determine a sensor coil disposition in the subject relative to said triplet or quadruplet drive coil sets. The receiving component provides a modified drive signal to maximize or optimize the generated respective electromagnetic wave fields, or the one or more sensor coil response signals.Type: GrantFiled: February 19, 2016Date of Patent: February 5, 2019Assignee: TELEFLEX MEDICAL DEVICES S.À R.L.Inventors: Peter E. Nelson, Robert D. Zellers, Charles W. Henry
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Patent number: 10159536Abstract: A method, a non-transitory computer readable medium, and an apparatus for operating the robotic control system comprising a master apparatus (64) in communication with an input device (58, 60) having a handle (102) and a slave system (54, 74) having a tool (66, 67) having an end effector (73) whose position and orientation is determined in response to a current position and current orientation of the handle. The method involves producing a desired end effector position and orientation in response to a current position and orientation of the handle. The method involves causing the input device to provide haptic feedback that impedes translational movement of the handle, while permitting rotational movement of the handle and preventing movement of the end effector, when a rotational alignment difference between the handle and the end effector meets a disablement criterion.Type: GrantFiled: January 8, 2016Date of Patent: December 25, 2018Assignee: Titan Medical Inc.Inventors: Joseph Kralicky, Peter Cameron, Rene Robert
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Patent number: 10159531Abstract: Devices and systems for navigation and positioning a central venous catheter within a patient. In an exemplary embodiment of a system of the present disclosure, the system comprises a first pole and a second pole, the first pole and the second pole configured to generate an electric field within a mammalian body sufficient to obtain a plurality of field measurements therein, and an elongated body configured for at least partial insertion into a blood vessel of the mammalian body and advancement through a vasculature, said advancement dependent upon the plurality of field measurements indicative of one or more locations of a portion of the elongated body within the vasculature. In at least one embodiment, the elongated body is configured as a stylet. In another embodiment, techniques for identifying and locating obstructions in the vessel in which a device is disposed are disclosed.Type: GrantFiled: September 8, 2015Date of Patent: December 25, 2018Assignee: C. R. Bard, Inc.Inventors: Anthony K. Misener, Paul D. Morgan, William R. McLaughlin, Ghassan S. Kassab, William Combs, Mark Svendsen, H. Toby Markowitz
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Patent number: 10119928Abstract: Methods, devices and systems for three-dimensional location of the disposition of a sensor coil in a subject including are disclosed. The systems include an array of three or more triplet or quadruplet drive coil sets, at least one moveable sensor coil configured to be disposed in a subject and to provide one or more sensor coil response signals responsive to the respective electromagnetic wave fields, a receiving component configured to control drive signals to the array of drive coil sets and to measure sensor coil response signals from the moveable sensor coil, and a processor is configured to determine a sensor coil disposition in the subject relative to said triplet or quadruplet drive coil sets. The receiving component provides a modified drive signal to maximize or optimize the generated respective electromagnetic wave fields, or the one or more sensor coil response signals.Type: GrantFiled: February 19, 2016Date of Patent: November 6, 2018Assignee: TELEFLEX MEDICAL DEVICES S.À R.L.Inventors: Peter E. Nelson, Robert D. Zellers, Charles W. Henry
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Patent number: 10028674Abstract: Provided are ultra-low-field nuclear-magnetic-resonance myocardial electrical activity detection method and an ultra-low-field nuclear-magnetic-resonance device. The ultra-low-field nuclear-magnetic-resonance device includes magnetic shielding room; a high-sensitivity magnetic field sensor disposed adjacent to a measurement target disposed inside the magnetic shielding room; and a bias magnetic field generating coil for providing an external measurement bias magnetic field, corresponding to a proton magnetic resonance frequency (nuclear magnetic resonance frequency) corresponding to a frequency of periodic myocardial activity of a lesion desired to be measured, to the measurement target. The high-sensitivity magnetic field sensor measures a magnetic resonance signal generated from the measurement target.Type: GrantFiled: May 10, 2013Date of Patent: July 24, 2018Assignee: Korea Research Institute of Standards and ScienceInventors: Kiwoong Kim, Yong-Ho Lee, Jin-Mok Kim, Hyukchan Kwon, Kwon Kyu Yu
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Patent number: 9999380Abstract: A variety of wearable magnetic assemblies are provided that are configured to produce magnetic fields having high field magnitudes and/or high field gradients. Such magnetic assemblies include a plurality of magnetic segments arranged in a linear array. Individual magnetic segments of the magnetic array can each include multiple magnetic elements. An individual magnetic segment can include elements that have similar shape, size, composition, and relative location to elements of neighboring magnetic segments while having magnetic moments that are antiparallel to the magnetic moments of corresponding elements of the neighboring magnetic segments. These wearable magnetic assemblies are configured to exert forces on magnetic particles disposed in a portion of subsurface vasculature to attract, slow, speed, separate, or otherwise influence the magnetic particles in various applications. The magnetic particles can be configured to bind to an analyte of interest.Type: GrantFiled: September 22, 2015Date of Patent: June 19, 2018Assignee: Verily Life Sciences LLCInventors: Vasiliki Demas, Vikram Singh Bajaj
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Patent number: 9981564Abstract: A foreign object detector includes a plurality of first coils and a plurality of second coils. The plurality of first coils are arranged along an upper surface of a power transmission coil. The plurality of second coils are provided to correspond to the plurality of first coils, with the second coils each being arranged to face a corresponding one of the first coils. An outer shape of each of the plurality of first coils and each of the plurality of second coils is smaller than an outer shape of the power transmission coil when the power transmission coil is viewed two-dimensionally from above the power transmission coil.Type: GrantFiled: June 11, 2015Date of Patent: May 29, 2018Assignees: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA, KOJIMA INDUSTRIES CORPORATION, YAZAKI CORPORATIONInventors: Toru Nakamura, Hideaki Yamada, Makoto Kawaide, Satoru Horiuchi, Hiroaki Saito
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Patent number: 9928597Abstract: There are provided an image processing apparatus, an image processing method and an image processing program which can easily and accurately specify and analyze an abnormal part of a subject. An image processing apparatus 100 used to specify the abnormal part of the subject includes a calculation unit 130 calculating position adjustment data between contour data of a specific subject extracted from an X-ray radiographic image and contour data of a photographic image obtained by photographing the specific subject, a sectional image generation unit 140 generating a sectional image of a three-dimensional X-ray CT image correlated with the X-ray radiographic image on a plane parallel with a light receiving face of a two-dimensional biolight image correlated with the photographic image, and a display processing unit 150 displaying the three-dimensional X-ray CT image and the two-dimensional biolight image in superposition on the sectional image, using the calculated position adjustment data.Type: GrantFiled: August 10, 2015Date of Patent: March 27, 2018Assignee: RIGAKU CORPORATIONInventors: Yukihiro Hara, Takafumi Koike, Minoru Maesawa
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Patent number: 9913605Abstract: Systems and methods for autonomous intravenous needle insertion are disclosed herein. In an embodiment, a system for autonomous intravenous insertion include a robot arm, one or more sensors pivotally attached to the robot arm for gathering information about potential insertion sites in a subject arm, a medical device pivotally attached to the robot arm, and a controller in communication with the sensors and the robot arm, wherein the controller receives the information from the sensors about potential insertion sites, and the controller selects a target insertion site and directs the robot arm to insert the medical device into the target insertion site.Type: GrantFiled: May 13, 2016Date of Patent: March 13, 2018Assignee: Veebot Systems, Inc.Inventors: Richard J. Harris, Joseph B. Mygatt, Stuart I. Harris
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Device and method for the geometric determination of electrical dipole densities on the cardiac wall
Patent number: 9913589Abstract: Disclosed are devices, a systems, and methods for determining the dipole densities on heart walls. In particular, a triangularization of the heart wall is performed in which the dipole density of each of multiple regions correlate to the potential measured at various locations within the associated chamber of the heart.Type: GrantFiled: October 25, 2016Date of Patent: March 13, 2018Inventor: Christoph Scharf -
Patent number: 9901280Abstract: A measuring method and apparatus in which a measurable object (23) is irradiated with acoustic waves to measure a change in property value of charged particles in the object from electromagnetic waves induced thereby. A part (2) of the measurable object irradiated with an acoustic focused beam (1) is in a charge distribution state in which positive charged particles (3) are greater in number in the part (2) where electromagnetic waves induced by positive charged particles (3) are not canceled by those induced by negative charged particles (4) and where net electromagnetic waves (6) are induced. Since a change in concentration of positive charged particles (3) and/or negative charged particles (4) changes the intensity of electromagnetic waves (6), it is possible to know such a change in concentration of the charged particles from a change in intensity of electromagnetic waves (6).Type: GrantFiled: August 14, 2006Date of Patent: February 27, 2018Assignee: JAPAN SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY AGENCYInventors: Kenji Ikushima, Susumu Komiyama
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Patent number: 9877679Abstract: The present invention relates to a movement disorder monitor, and a method of measuring the severity of a subject's movement disorder. The present invention additionally relates to a drug delivery system for dosing a subject in response to the increased severity of a subject's symptoms. The present invention provides for a system and method, which can accurately quantify symptoms of movements disorders, accurately quantifies symptoms utilizing both kinetic information and electromyography (EMG) data, that can be worn continuously to provide continuous information to be analyzed as needed by the clinician, that can provide analysis in real-time, that allows for home monitoring of symptoms in subject's with these movement disorders to capture the complex fluctuation patterns of the disease over the course of days, weeks or months, that maximizes subject safety, and that provides remote access to the clinician or physician.Type: GrantFiled: February 3, 2016Date of Patent: January 30, 2018Assignee: Great Lakes NeuroTechnologies Inc.Inventor: Joseph Giuffrida
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Patent number: 9861283Abstract: The present invention relates to a movement disorder monitor, and a method of measuring the severity of a subject's movement disorder. The present invention additionally relates to a drug delivery system for dosing a subject in response to the increased severity of a subject's symptoms. The present invention provides for a system and method, which can accurately quantify symptoms of movements disorders, accurately quantifies symptoms utilizing both kinetic information and electromyography (EMG) data, that can be worn continuously to provide continuous information to be analyzed as needed by the clinician, that can provide analysis in real-time, that allows for home monitoring of symptoms in subject's with these movement disorders to capture the complex fluctuation patterns of the disease over the course of days, weeks or months, that maximizes subject safety, and that provides remote access to the clinician or physician.Type: GrantFiled: February 3, 2016Date of Patent: January 9, 2018Assignee: Great Lakes NeuroTechnologies IncInventor: Joseph Giuffrida
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Patent number: 9804125Abstract: Invention, relates to the field of supersensitive biomagnetometry under presence of external electromagnetic interferences. In order to perform passive compensation of said interferences, design of device at the magnetometer input is proposed, comprising compensation elements and means for their moving including shifting, holding, and fixation units. In the basic embodiment, three short-closed wire contours are used which are orthogonally placed in space and independently moved up-down relative to the magnetometer or its input antenna. Contours are fixed in positions where minimum of external interference amplitude is achieved according to given field projection. Variants are proposed with cooling of meter and/or contours, location of contours inside the cryostat and their manufacturing from superconductors.Type: GrantFiled: May 17, 2012Date of Patent: October 31, 2017Inventors: Volodymyr Mykolaiovych Sosnytskyy, Yurii Dmytrovych Minov, Mykola Mykolaiovych Budnyk
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Patent number: 9689932Abstract: The present invention relates to an apparatus and a method for influencing and/or detecting magnetic particles in a field of view (28), in particular for examination of human patients.Type: GrantFiled: November 13, 2012Date of Patent: June 27, 2017Assignee: Koninklijke Philips N.V.Inventors: Claas Bontus, Ingo Schmale, Bernhard Gleich
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Patent number: 9684069Abstract: A ground-penetrating radar system or other low-frequency radar system that operates at a wavelength that is comparable to or larger than the dimensions of the transmitting and receiving antennas. In one embodiment, a radar transmitter includes two drive coils, misaligned with respect to each other, that produce respective field patterns, each modulated with a respective modulation. A radar receiver includes a composite sense coil that senses the effect a target has on the fields, and generates a corresponding signal that carries the two modulations. From the proportion of the two modulations in the received signal, which depends on the extent to which the target is in each of the two field patterns, the receiver estimates the angle (e.g., the azimuth angle) to the target. An additional measurement of the angle may be made by comparing the phases of the carrier in the two received modulations.Type: GrantFiled: January 8, 2015Date of Patent: June 20, 2017Assignee: RAYTHEON COMPANYInventor: Benjamin Dolgin
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Patent number: 9675273Abstract: The present invention involves a computer-based system and method for detecting and identifying implantable medical devices (“IMDs”) and/or retained foreign objects (“RFSOs”) from diagnostic medical images. In some embodiments, the system provides further identification—information on the particular IMD or RSFO that has been recognized. For example, the system may be configures to provide information feedback regarding the IMD, such as detailed manual information, safety alerts, recall, access to its structural integrity, and/or suggested courses of action in a specific clinical setting/troubleshooting. Embodiments are contemplated in which the system is configured to report possible 3D locations of RSFOs in the surgical field/images.Type: GrantFiled: April 17, 2016Date of Patent: June 13, 2017Assignee: Rush University Medical CenterInventor: Vicko Gluncic
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Patent number: 9649155Abstract: A medical device is provided comprising a shaft comprising a first segment and a second segment. The first segment is configured to buckle upon application of a first critical force. The second segment includes an outer surface and an inner surface and is configured to buckle upon application of a second critical force. The second critical force is lower than the first critical force. The medical device further comprises a coil disposed radially inwardly of the inner surface of the second segment.Type: GrantFiled: December 23, 2014Date of Patent: May 16, 2017Assignee: St. Jude Medical, Atrial Fibrillation Division, Inc.Inventors: Eric S. Olson, James V. Kauphusman, Linda K. Nemec, Troy T. Tegg
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Patent number: 9629568Abstract: A method and system provides for electrophysiological data analysis in a networked processing environment. The method and system includes receiving, via a networked connection, electrophysiological data of a patient and electronically performing, via at least one network processing device, a data analysis on the electrophysiological data. The method and system includes generating at least one report based on the data analysis, wherein the at least one report includes determination of one or more intervention options for the patient and therein transmitting the report to a recipient device across the network connection for utilization with the patient. The results of the report direct the user to apply from within the same system non-invasive brain stimulation, neurofeedback, and biofeedback modalities.Type: GrantFiled: September 16, 2015Date of Patent: April 25, 2017Assignee: EVOKE NEUROSCIENCE, INC.Inventors: David W Hagedorn, James W. G. Thompson
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Patent number: 9601031Abstract: A medical attachment device position detection system for use during medical training including a processor and a medical attachment device communicatively coupled to the processor, a first magnetometer coupled to the medical attachment device and configured to detect a first angle, and a second magnetometer configured to detect a second angle. The second magnetometer is communicatively coupled to the processor. The processor is operably configured to compare a relationship of the first angle relative to the second angle to determine a position of the medical attachment device relative to a subject.Type: GrantFiled: May 24, 2016Date of Patent: March 21, 2017Inventor: Christian Raul Gutierrez Morales
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Patent number: 9576107Abstract: A parametric model representing a portion of a heart is constructed using a statistical prior of the shape from a dataset of other instances of the portion. Using a mapping electrode, electrical data is acquired in a plurality of locations in the portion of the heart of a subject. The parametric model is fitted to the electrical data and the statistical prior to produce an isosurface of the portion of the heart and a reconstruction of its shape.Type: GrantFiled: June 24, 2014Date of Patent: February 21, 2017Assignee: BIOSENSE WEBSTER (ISRAEL) LTD.Inventors: Moshe Safran, Meir Bar-Tal
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Patent number: 9551688Abstract: [Problem to be Solved] To provide a property measuring device for measuring a measurement object, which can highly reliably extract an electric signal serving as the measurement object from an electromagnetic field noise or the like generated by an acoustic wave generating source even if the acoustic wave is a continuous wave, while a high spatial resolution is maintained, by using an acoustic wave as a properly measuring means for measuring an object and method thereof.Type: GrantFiled: July 10, 2012Date of Patent: January 24, 2017Assignee: TOKYO UNIVERSITY OF AGRICULTURE AND TECHNOLOGYInventor: Kenji Ikushima
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Device and method for the geometric determination of electrical dipole densities on the cardiac wall
Patent number: 9504395Abstract: Disclosed are devices, a systems, and methods for determining the dipole densities on heart walls. In particular, a triangularization of the heart wall is performed in which the dipole density of each of multiple regions correlate to the potential measured at various locations within the associated chamber of the heart.Type: GrantFiled: October 19, 2015Date of Patent: November 29, 2016Inventor: Christoph Scharf -
Patent number: 9451883Abstract: Decoding and reconstructing a subjective perceptual or cognitive experience is described. A first set of brain activity data produced in response to a first brain activity stimulus is acquired from a subject using a brain imaging device. An encoding model is used to convert the brain activity data into a corresponding set of predicted response values. A second set of brain activity data produced in response to a second brain activity stimulus is acquired from a subject and decoded using a decoding distribution derived from the encoding model, and the probability the second set of brain activity data corresponds to said predicted response values is determined. The second set of brain activity stimuli is then reconstructed based on the probability of correspondence between the second set of brain activity data and the predicted response values.Type: GrantFiled: December 21, 2012Date of Patent: September 27, 2016Assignee: THE REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIAInventors: Jack L. Gallant, Thomas Naselaris, Kendrick Kay, Ryan Prenger
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Patent number: 9427559Abstract: A centering tool and a combined centering-indicator tool for finding the magnetic center and indicating the setting of an implantable adjustable valve. The centering and combined centering-indicator tools include a magnetic capsule movable within a cavity to a target located on the tool when the magnetic capsule is centered over magnet of an adjustable valve.Type: GrantFiled: September 8, 2015Date of Patent: August 30, 2016Assignee: Medtronic Xomed, Inc.Inventors: Deep Shah, Tony Daniel Cepeda, Lori Speckman, W. Jeff Bertrand, Lawrence Hampton
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Patent number: 9317920Abstract: A computer-based system and method(s) are described which detects and identifies implanted medical devices (“IMDs”) and/or retained surgical foreign objects (“RSFOs”) from diagnostic medical images. In some embodiments, the system provides further identification—information on the particular IMD and/or RSFO that has been recognized. For example, the system could be configured to provide information feedback regarding the IMD, such as detailed manual information, safety alerts, recalls, assess its' structural integrity, and/or suggested courses of action in a specific clinical setting/troubleshooting. Embodiments are contemplated in which the system is configured to report possible 3D locations of RSFOs in the surgical field/images.Type: GrantFiled: November 29, 2012Date of Patent: April 19, 2016Assignee: Rush University Medical CenterInventor: Vicko Gluncic
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Patent number: 9255818Abstract: An electronic circuit detecting proximity includes an excitation coil emitting an inductive excitation field toward a target. A first pair of detection coils obtains a first differential inductive signal that is modified by a transition of the target within the inductive field. An out-of phase second pair of detection coils obtains a second differential inductive signal that is modified by a transition of the target within the inductive field. A comparator generates a transition signal when the difference between the first and second differential signals reaches a threshold value. A stationary target, in a ferromagnetic or conductive material, creates an offset to the signals at the outlet of the coil pairs. The offset is decreased during the presence of a movable target within the same type of material or increased during the presence of a movable target within another type of material. A comparator detects the offset level.Type: GrantFiled: June 13, 2012Date of Patent: February 9, 2016Assignee: Posic SAInventors: Johan Bergqvist, Sietse Wouters
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Luminescent tension-indicating orthopedic strain gauges for non-invasive measurements through tissue
Patent number: 9179865Abstract: Strain gauges that can provide information with regard to the state of implantable devices are described. The strain gauges can exhibit luminescence that is detectable through living tissue, and the detectable luminescent emission can vary according to the strain applied to the gauge. A change in residual strain of the device can signify a loss of mechanical integrity and/or loosening of the implant, and this can be non-invasively detected either by simple visual detection of the luminescent emission or through examination of the emission with a detector such as a spectrometer or a camera.Type: GrantFiled: August 7, 2013Date of Patent: November 10, 2015Assignee: Clemson UniversityInventors: Jeffrey Anker, Melissa Rogalski, Dakota Anderson, Jonathon Heath -
Patent number: 9173614Abstract: The use of machine learning for pattern recognition in magnetocardiography (MCG) that measures magnetic fields emitted by the electrophysiological activity of the heart is disclosed herein. Direct kernel methods are used to separate abnormal MCG heart patterns from normal ones. For unsupervised learning, Direct Kernel based Self-Organizing Maps are introduced. For supervised learning Direct Kernel Partial Least Squares and (Direct) Kernel Ridge Regression are used. These results are then compared with classical Support Vector Machines and Kernel Partial Least Squares. The hyper-parameters for these methods are tuned on a validation subset of the training data before testing. Also investigated is the most effective pre-processing, using local, vertical, horizontal and two-dimensional (global) Mahanalobis scaling, wavelet transforms, and variable selection by filtering.Type: GrantFiled: May 28, 2014Date of Patent: November 3, 2015Assignee: CardioMag Imaging, Inc.Inventors: Karsten Sternickel, Boleslaw Szymanski, Mark Embrechts
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Patent number: 9125581Abstract: A system identifies double-layer dipoles in a magnetic image by defining two-dimensional patches of distributed point charges that simulate the double-layer dipoles. The geometric center of a two-dimensional patch is used as the location of an equivalent dipole moment of the double-layer dipole. The momentum of the equivalent dipole moment is determined by submitting the magnetic image to a dipole construction system that identifies the location and momentum based on the submitted magnetic image.Type: GrantFiled: May 23, 2012Date of Patent: September 8, 2015Assignee: Seiko Epson CorporationInventors: Chenyu Wu, Jing Xiao
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Patent number: 9113803Abstract: Disclosed is a magnetoencephalography meter which includes a plurality of optical pumping magnetometers which are arranged in a helmet shape to cover the head of the subject. Each optical pumping magnetometer has a vapor cell which is filled with alkali metal atoms and is arranged substantially in parallel to the surface of the head of the subject, a laser light emission unit that emits laser light in a direction toward the head of the subject and causes laser light to enter the vapor cell, a reflection unit that reflects laser light passed through the vapor cell in a direction away from the head of the subject which is a direction substantially perpendicular to the surface of the head of the subject, and a polarization change detection unit that receives laser light reflected by the reflection unit and detects change in polarization of laser light.Type: GrantFiled: November 20, 2013Date of Patent: August 25, 2015Assignee: Sumitomo Heavy Industries, Ltd.Inventor: Yanping Zhang