Patents Assigned to Masimo Corporation
  • Monitor configuration system
    Patent number: 11622733
    Abstract: A monitor configuration system which communicates with a physiological sensor, the monitor configuration system including one or more processors and an instrument manager module running on the one or more processors. At least one of the one or more processors communicates with the sensor and calculates at least one physiological parameters responsive to the sensor. The instrument manager controls the calculation, display and/or alarms based upon the physiological parameters. A configuration indicator identifies the configuration profile. In one aspect of the invention, the physiological sensor is a optical sensor that includes at least one light emitting diode and at least one detector.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 17, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 11, 2023
    Assignee: Masimo Corporation
    Inventor: Ammar Al-Ali
  • Congenital heart disease monitor
    Patent number: 11607139
    Abstract: A congenital heart disease monitor utilizes a sensor capable of emitting multiple wavelengths of optical radiation into a tissue site and detecting the optical radiation after attenuation by pulsatile blood flowing within the tissue site. A patient monitor is capable of receiving a sensor signal corresponding to the detected optical radiation and calculating at least one physiological parameter in response. The physiological parameter is measured at a baseline site and a comparison site and a difference in these measurements is calculated. A potential congenital heart disease condition in indicated according to the measured physiological parameter at each of the sites or the calculated difference in the measured physiological parameter between the sites or both.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 13, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 21, 2023
    Assignee: MASIMO CORPORATION
    Inventor: Massi Joe E. Kiani
  • Medical monitoring analysis and replay including indicia responsive to light attenuated by body tissue
    Patent number: 11605188
    Abstract: The present disclosure includes a medical monitoring hub as the center of monitoring for a monitored patient. The hub is configured to receive and process a plurality of physiological parameters associated with the patient. The hub includes advanced analytical presentation views configured to provide timely, clinically-relevant, actionable information to care providers. In certain embodiments, the monitoring hub stores and is able to replay previously presented data reflective of the patient's condition.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 1, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 14, 2023
    Assignee: Masimo Corporation
    Inventors: Ammar Al-Ali, Keith Ward Indorf, Swapnil Sudhir Harsule, Ronald Keith Rumbaugh, II, Kun Han Kim
  • Soft boot pulse oximetry sensor
    Patent number: 11602289
    Abstract: A reusable sensor is disclosed for producing a signal indicative of at least one physiological parameter of tissue. The sensor can include a sensor housing that has a distal opening, a wire lumen, and a proximal opening. The distal opening can include a lumen extending through the body of the sensor housing and the wire lumen can be located on the outside of the sensor housing. The sensor can also include a first component located on a top surface of the sensor housing and along the pathway of the wire lumen. The sensor can also include a second component located on the bottom surface of the sensor housing opposite of the first component. The second component can also be located along the pathway of the wire lumen. The sensor can also include a wire coaxially disposed within the wire lumen and connecting the first component and second component.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 21, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 14, 2023
    Assignee: Masimo Corporation
    Inventors: Charles D. O'Neil, Sujin Hwang, John Schmidt
  • Modular multi-parameter patient monitoring device
    Patent number: 11596365
    Abstract: A multi-parameter patient monitoring device rack can dock a plurality of patient monitor modules and can communicate with a separate display unit. A signal processing unit can be incorporated into the device rack. A graphics processing unit can be attached to the display unit. The device rack and the graphic display unit can have improved heat dissipation and drip-proof features. The multi-parameter patient monitoring device rack can provide interchangeability and versatility to a multi-parameter patient monitoring system by allowing use of different display units and monitoring of different combinations of parameters. A dual-use patient monitor module can have its own display unit configured for displaying one or more parameters when used as a stand-alone device, and can be docked into the device rack when a handle on the module is folded down.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 16, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 7, 2023
    Assignee: Masimo Corporation
    Inventors: Nicholas Evan Barker, Chad A. DeJong, Kirby Clark Dotson, Ammar Al-Ali, Bilal Muhsin, Sujin Hwang, Massi Joe E. Kiani
  • Patient-worn wireless physiological sensor
    Patent number: 11576582
    Abstract: A wireless, patient-worn, physiological sensor configured to, among other things, help manage a patient that is at risk of forming one or more pressure ulcers is disclosed. According to an embodiment, the sensor includes a base having a top surface and a bottom surface. The sensor also includes a substrate layer including conductive tracks and connection pads, a top side, and a bottom side, where the bottom side of the substrate layer is disposed above the top side of the base. Mounted on the substrate layer are a processor, a data storage device, a wireless transceiver, an accelerometer, and a battery. In use, the sensor senses a patient's motion and wirelessly transmits information indicative of the sensed motion to, for example, a patient monitor. The patient monitor receives, stores, and processes the transmitted information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 8, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 14, 2023
    Assignee: Masimo Corporation
    Inventors: Ammar Al-Ali, Kevin Forrest
  • Calibration for multi-stage physiological monitors
    Patent number: 11571152
    Abstract: A physiological monitor is provided for determining a physiological parameter of a medical patient with a multi-stage sensor assembly. The monitor includes a signal processor configured to receive a signal indicative of a physiological parameter of a medical patient from a multi-stage sensor assembly. The multi-stage sensor assembly is configured to be attached to the physiological monitor and the medical patient. The monitor of certain embodiments also includes an information element query module configured to obtain calibration information from an information element provided in a plurality of stages of the multi-stage sensor assembly. In some embodiments, the signal processor is configured to determine the physiological parameter of the medical patient based upon said signal and said calibration information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 25, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 7, 2023
    Assignee: Masimo Corporation
    Inventors: Ammar Al-Ali, Walter M. Weber, Valery G. Telfort
  • Opioid overdose monitoring
    Patent number: 11564642
    Abstract: An overdose of opioids can cause the user to stop breathing, resulting in death. A physiological monitoring system monitors respiration based on oxygen saturation readings from a fingertip pulse oximeter in communication with a smart mobile device and sends opioid monitoring information from the smart mobile device to an opioid overdose monitoring service. The opioid overdose monitoring service notifies a first set of contacts when the opioid monitoring information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 11, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 31, 2023
    Assignee: Masimo Corporation
    Inventors: Massi Joe E. Kiani, Bilal Muhsin, Ammar Al-Ali, Keith Ward Indorf, Omar Ahmed, Jerome Novak, Walter M. Weber
  • Gas sampling line
    Patent number: 11564593
    Abstract: A gas sampling line having a channel for conducting respiratory gases from a patient respiratory interface to a gas monitor, the gas sampling line comprising, i.a., a gas sampling tube comprised of a polyether block amide material, the polyether segments of which comprise polyethyleneoxide. Use of a tube comprised of a polyether block amide material, the polyether segments of which comprise polyethyleneoxide, for sampling of respiratory gases; and a method for sampling of respiratory gases, the method comprising conducting respiratory gases through such a tube. A gas analysis system for analysing respiratory gases, comprising a gas sampling line as defined above and a gas monitor connectable to the gas sampling line.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 22, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 31, 2023
    Assignee: Masimo Corporation
    Inventors: Anders Eckerbom, Robert Zyzanski
  • Acoustic sensor assembly
    Patent number: 11559275
    Abstract: An acoustic sensor is configured to provide accurate and robust measurement of bodily sounds under a variety of conditions, such as in noisy environments or in situations in which stress, strain, or movement may be imparted onto a sensor with respect to a patient. Embodiments of the sensor provide a conformable electrical shielding, as well as improved acoustic and mechanical coupling between the sensor and the measurement site.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 17, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 24, 2023
    Assignee: Masimo Corporation
    Inventors: Valery G. Telfort, Predrag Pudar, Dimitar Dimitrov, Phi Trang, Ammar Al-Ali
  • Non-invasive physiological sensor cover
    Patent number: 11559227
    Abstract: A sensor cover according to embodiments of the disclosure is capable of being used with a non-invasive physiological sensor, such as a pulse oximetry sensor. Certain embodiments of the sensor cover reduce or eliminate false readings from the sensor when the sensor is not in use, for example, by blocking a light detecting component of a pulse oximeter sensor when the pulse oximeter sensor is active but not in use. Further, embodiments of the sensor cover can prevent damage to the sensor. Additionally, embodiments of the sensor cover prevent contamination of the sensor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 26, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 24, 2023
    Assignee: Masimo Corporation
    Inventors: Abraham Mazda Kiani, Massi Joe E. Kiani
  • Automated assembly sensor cable
    Patent number: 11557407
    Abstract: An automated assembly sensor cable has a generally wide and flat elongated body and a registration feature generally traversing the length of the body so as to identify the relative locations of conductors within the body. This cable configuration facilitates the automated attachment of the cable to an optical sensor circuit and corresponding connector. In various embodiments, the automated assembly sensor cable has a conductor set of insulated wires, a conductive inner jacket generally surrounding the conductor set, an outer jacket generally surrounding the inner jacket and a registration feature disposed along the surface of the outer jacket and a conductive drain line is embedded within the inner jacket. A strength member may be embedded within the inner jacket.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 22, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 17, 2023
    Assignee: MASIMO CORPORATION
    Inventors: Ammar Al-Ali, Yassir Abdul-Hafiz, William Jack MacNeish, III, Kevin Forrest
  • Nose sensor
    Patent number: 11534110
    Abstract: A patient monitor can noninvasively measure a physiological parameter using sensor data from a nose sensor configured to be secured to a nose of the patient. The nose sensor can include an emitter and a detector. The detector is configured to generate a signal when detecting light attenuated by the nose tissue of the patient. An output measurement of the physiological parameter can be determined based on the signals generated by the detector. The nose sensor can include an inner prong and an outer prong to assist the nose sensor in securing to a patient's nose. The detector can be coupled to an inner post of the inner prong and can be configured to secure to an interior or exterior portion of the patient's nose.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 23, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 27, 2022
    Assignee: MASIMO CORPORATION
    Inventors: Samir Shreim, Vikrant Sharma, Philip Perea, Jennifer Rines, Clinton Robins, Chad Eichele, Yassir Kamel Abdul-Hafiz, Sean Devlin
  • Display screen or portion thereof with graphical user interface
    Patent number: D971933
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 30, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 6, 2022
    Assignee: Masimo Corporation
    Inventor: Omar Ahmed
  • Display screen or portion thereof with graphical user interface
    Patent number: D973072
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 21, 2022
    Date of Patent: December 20, 2022
    Assignee: Masimo Corporation
    Inventor: Omar Ahmed
  • Display screen or portion thereof with graphical user interface
    Patent number: D973685
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 21, 2022
    Date of Patent: December 27, 2022
    Assignee: Masimo Corporation
    Inventor: Omar Ahmed
  • Display screen or portion thereof with graphical user interface
    Patent number: D973686
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 21, 2022
    Date of Patent: December 27, 2022
    Assignee: Masimo Corporation
    Inventor: Omar Ahmed
  • Wearable temperature measurement device
    Patent number: D974193
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 27, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 3, 2023
    Assignee: Masimo Corporation
    Inventors: Kevin Forrest, Ammar Al-Ali, Valery G. Telfort
  • Connector
    Patent number: D979516
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 11, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 28, 2023
    Assignee: Masimo Corporation
    Inventors: Ammar Al-Ali, Yuan Zhang, Sujin Hwang, Benjamin C. Triman
  • Wearable temperature measurement device
    Patent number: D980091
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 27, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 7, 2023
    Assignee: Masimo Corporation
    Inventors: Kevin Forrest, Ammar Al-Ali, Valery G. Telfort