Patents Examined by Abid A Mustansir
  • Patent number: 11937923
    Abstract: A non-invasive method to determine a current functional blood oxygen saturation level: acquiring, at a sampling frequency, a photoplethysmography light response for each wavelength of a plurality of at least three wavelengths, resulting respectively in a first, second and third raw data series, applying a low -pass filter to each of the first, second and third raw data series, resulting respectively in a first, second and third DC data series representing an unmodulated amplitude response determining respectively in a first, second and third AC data series representing an unmodulated amplitude response, applying a. computation engine to the first, second and third AC and DC data series, and determining therefrom a user current blood oxygen saturation level.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 30, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2024
    Assignee: WITHINGS
    Inventors: Paul Edouard, Romain Kirszenblat
  • Patent number: 11925438
    Abstract: An apparatus for estimating body temperature of an object is provided. The apparatus for estimating body temperature includes: a sensor configured to obtain spectra through a plurality of light paths of an object; and a processor configured to obtain a temperature slope between temperatures corresponding to the plurality of light paths based on the spectra of the plurality of light paths and a reference spectrum measured at a reference temperature, and estimate the body temperature of the object based on the temperature slope.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 17, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 12, 2024
    Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Sung Hyun Nam, So Young Lee, Ka Ram Choi
  • Patent number: 11918324
    Abstract: A pulse transit time is measured non-invasively and used to calculate a blood pressure value. A method of determining one or more blood pressure values includes propagating an alternating drive current through a thorax of a subject via electrodes located on a wrist-worn device. Resulting voltage levels of the subject are sensed by the wrist-worn device. The voltage levels are processed to detect when a volume of blood is ejected from the left ventricle. Output from a pulse arrival sensor coupled to the wrist-worn device is processed to detect when a blood pressure pulse generated by ejection of the volume of blood from the left ventricle arrives at the wrist. A pulse transit time (PTT) for transit of the blood pressure pulse from the left ventricle to the wrist is calculated. One or more blood pressure values for the subject are determined based on the PTT.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 11, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 5, 2024
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Thomas J. Sullivan, Wren Nancy Dougherty, Richard C. Kimoto, Erno Klaassen, Ravi K. Narasimhan, Stephen J. Waydo, Todd K. Whitehurst, Derek Park-Shing Young, Santiago Quijano, Zijing Zeng
  • Patent number: 11911155
    Abstract: An apparatus for monitoring blood oxygen saturation of a subject is provided. The apparatus includes a unit configured for wearing on the subject's upper arm, the unit comprising first and second light sources configured to emit light of first and second wavelengths and a photodetector configured to detect light of the first and second wavelengths, where the light sources are arranged to direct light into the upper arm and the photodetector is arranged to detect light reflected from within the upper arm.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 30, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 27, 2024
    Assignee: CURRENT HEALTH LIMITED
    Inventors: Stewart Whiting, Samuel Moreland, Hugh Carter, Morgan Smith
  • Patent number: 11911154
    Abstract: The disclosure discloses a skin-attached blood oxygen saturation detection system and a preparation method thereof. The system includes a front-end flexible blood oxygen saturation detection circuit and a back-end signal processing output module connected to each other. The front-end flexible blood oxygen saturation detection circuit uses a flexible packaging material to act as a packaging layer, a surface of the front-end flexible blood oxygen saturation detection circuit has an adhesive functional layer, and is configured to detect blood oxygen saturation of a human tissue through a reflective optical principle. The back-end signal processing output module is configured to transmit a blood oxygen saturation signal to a mobile terminal through a Bluetooth antenna transmission module.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 8, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 27, 2024
    Assignee: HUAZHONG UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY
    Inventors: Hao Wu, Xin Huang, Ganguang Yang
  • Patent number: 11903687
    Abstract: A triboelectric wearable device (100) and a method for physiological monitoring, comprising: a support element (101); a first element (102) consisting of a first metallic contact (102a) and a second metallic contact (102b) between which is placed a dielectric layer, said first element (102) being able to be placed in contact with a wrist (50) of a user and bonded to the support element (101); a second element (103) overlapped and bonded to the first element (102) and to the support element (101). The triboelectric wearable device (100) further comprises an electronic interface (104) for acquiring and processing the signal generated by means of the triboelectric effect in the blood vessels of the user near the wrist (50), said electronic interface (104) being housed into the support element (101) and connected to the first metallic contact (102a) and to the second metallic contact (102b) of the first element (102).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 28, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 20, 2024
    Assignee: UNIVERSITA′ DEGLI STUDI MAGNA GRAECIA DI CATANZARO
    Inventors: Antonino Secondo Fiorillo, Salvatore Andrea Pullano, Costantino Davide Critello
  • Patent number: 11903700
    Abstract: Systems, methods and devices for reducing noise in health monitoring including monitoring systems, methods and/or devices receiving a health signal and/or having at least one sensor for health monitoring.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 28, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 20, 2024
    Assignee: RDS
    Inventors: Mark P. Marriott, George Stefan Golda, Steve Hurwitz, Sam Eletr, Jeffrey C. Marshall, George E. Smith, Clifton J. Shak, Bruce O'Neil
  • Patent number: 11896401
    Abstract: A method and system for measuring personal health, the method comprising detecting a photoplethysmograph (PPG) wave, the PPG wave generated based on a combination of infra-red and red lights, transmitting the PPG wave to a server, the server processing the PPG wave to infer biometric statistics based on machine learned correlations generated from a training set of PPG waves and biometric data, receiving the biometric statistics from the server, and generating display data based on the biometric statistics.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 5, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 13, 2024
    Assignee: Helo Corp.
    Inventor: Fabio Galdi
  • Patent number: 11896402
    Abstract: An electronic device may include a housing and a PhotoPlethysmoGram (PPG) sensor disposed inside the housing. The PPG sensor may include a first Light Emitting Diode (LED) configured to generate light in a first wavelength band, a second LED configured to generate light in a second wavelength band, a third LED configured to generate light in a third wavelength band, a fourth LED configured to generate light in a fourth wavelength band, and a light receiving module including at least one photo diode. The electronic device may include a processor operatively coupled with the PPG sensor and a memory operatively coupled with the processor. The memory may include instructions that, when executed, cause the processor to measure optical densities of the light generated by the first LED to the fourth LED, and calculate a blood glucose value based at least in part on the measured optical densities.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 11, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 13, 2024
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Hyejung Seo, Minji Kim, Jinho Kim, Taehan Jeon, Jeongmin Park
  • Patent number: 11890084
    Abstract: An apparatus for estimating bio-information may include a sensor configured to obtain a bio-signal from an object, and a processor configured to obtain a second-order differential signal of the bio-signal, and extract a progressive wave component from the bio-signal using, based on a first local minimum point of the second-order differential signal being stable, the first local minimum point of the second-order differential signal, or extract the progressive wave component from the bio-signal using, based on the first local minimum point of the second-order differential signal being unstable, a maximum amplitude point in a systolic portion of the bio-signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 30, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 6, 2024
    Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Chang Soon Park, Ui Kun Kwon, Seung Keun Yoon, Dae Geun Jang
  • Patent number: 11890105
    Abstract: A method of operation of a compute system includes: generating a skin segmentation including a non-skin region and a skin prediction based on a patient image; generating a body part segmentation based on the patient image; generating a cropped image based on the skin segmentation and the body part segmentation with the cropped image includes the non-skin region based on the skin prediction; generating a psoriasis segmentation based on the cropped image and the skin prediction; generating intermediate scores for erythema, induration, desquamation for the cropped image; and generating a full body PASI score based a psoriasis segmentation and the intermediate scores on the for displaying on a device to assist in diagnosis.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 23, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 6, 2024
    Assignee: BelleTorus Corporation
    Inventors: Tien Dung Nguyen, Léa Mathilde Gazeau, Matthew Gregory Gloss, Thomas Hustache-Marmou, Kavita Mariwalla, Emily Kathryn McAnelly, Megan M. Morbitzer, Duong Thuy Nguyen, Hoang-Phuong Nguyen, Nga Thi Thuy Nguyen, Thang Duc Nguyen, Thi Thu Hang Nguyen, Clifford Perlis, Christopher C. Szajna, Jonathan Wolfe
  • Patent number: 11890083
    Abstract: Systems, devices, and methods are described herein for maintaining a physiological sensor at constant pressure against a subject. A system may include a wearable band that is wearable by a subject, a physiological sensor coupled to the wearable band, a pressure sensor coupled to the wearable band, a processor and a user interface. The physiological sensor may be positioned along an inside surface of the wearable band, embedded in the wearable band, or otherwise positioned in the band to be adjacent to the subject as the subject wears the wearable band. The pressure sensor may directly or indirectly measure a pressure of the physiological sensor against the subject. The processor may generate an alert when a pressure measurement for the physiological sensor against the subject is outside a specified range. The user interface may present the alert to the subject.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 14, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 6, 2024
    Assignee: Tula Health, Inc.
    Inventors: Josh Williams, Nicole Winter, Spencer Talbot, Mitchell Slater, Devin Miller, Ethan Krause, Thomas A. Naylor, Paul McMullin, Roger Black, Brian Jensen, Cameron Hernandez
  • Patent number: 11892326
    Abstract: The present invention relates to an improved tocodynamometer transducer that exhibits increased mechanical stability, dynamic range, accuracy, and reliability. Improvement components include top and bottom enclosures, plunger, ferrite core, LVDT transformer, transformer housing, flat spring, and other components. The flat spring includes four spring ribs that are symmetrical, curvilinear in shape, identical in path length, separated by an air gap, and equally spaced between the outer ring, inner ring, and the spring ribs that are adjacent. The spring constant is identical along two or more axes improving the accuracy of the improved tocodynamometer transducer. The ferrite core travel length is increased and mechanically constrained to remain between the LVDT transforming winding increasing the dynamic range and the linearity of the voltage output of the improved tocodynamometer transducer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 10, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 6, 2024
    Assignee: Aronix LLC
    Inventors: Arun Narayan Patil, Anand Raghunath Bhave, Sunanda Narayan Patil, Pratibha Narayan Patil
  • Patent number: 11883134
    Abstract: Embodiments of the present technology may include a system for monitoring a physiological parameter in a person, the system including a frequency synthesizer configured to generate radio waves across a range of radio frequencies. Embodiments may also include at least one transmit antenna configured to transmit the radio waves below the skin surface of a person. Embodiments may also include a two-dimensional array of receive antennas configured to receive radio waves, the received radio waves including a reflected portion of the transmitted radio waves. Embodiments may also include processing circuits configured to generate data in response to the received radio waves and to coherently combine the generated data across the two-dimensional array of receive antennas and across the range of radio frequencies to produce a pulse wave signal of the person.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 18, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 30, 2024
    Assignee: Movano Inc.
    Inventor: Michael A. Leabman
  • Patent number: 11877845
    Abstract: A method, system, apparatus, and/or device to determine a condition of a user using a spectrometer with a collimator on a glass substrate. The method, system, apparatus, and/or device may include: a band comprising a shape, size, and flexibility designed for attaching the band to a body part of a user; a light source embedded in the band that emits light comprising a constituent wavelength that provides an indication of a feature of the body part; an optical sensor positioned in the band to receive the constituent wavelength; and a glass substrate oriented in the band to receive the light, the glass substrate comprising: an optical filter that comprises a passband to isolate the constituent wavelength from other wavelengths of the light; and a carbon nanotube grid structure comprising walls and through-channels, the carbon nanotube grid structure adhered to the glass substrate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 30, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 23, 2024
    Assignee: Brigham Young University
    Inventors: Robert Davis, Richard Vanfleet, Nick Morrill, David Miller
  • Patent number: 11879626
    Abstract: A patient monitoring sensor having a communication interface, through which the patient monitoring sensor can communicate with a monitor is provided. The patient monitoring sensor includes a light-emitting diode (LED) communicatively coupled to the communication interface and a detector, communicatively coupled to the communication interface, capable of detecting light. The patient monitoring sensor includes a layer of material is provided over the LED on the patient-side of the sensor to reduce transmission of heat therefrom to the skin of the patient.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 18, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 23, 2024
    Assignee: COVIDIEN LP
    Inventors: Derek L Moody, Linden A. Reustle, Sarah L. Hayman, Jacob Dove
  • Patent number: 11872060
    Abstract: A method for calculating physiological parameters includes: selecting a section of time domain signal corresponding to at least one signal of red light and infrared light obtained by sampling, and performing a conversion from time domain to frequency domain to obtain a corresponding frequency domain signal; selecting all rational frequency spectrum peak information, calculating energy information of selected reasonable frequency spectrum peaks, and forming a frequency spectrum peak energy ratio sequence; constructing a stability coefficient according to the frequency spectrum peak energy ratio sequence, and if the stability coefficient is low, constructing a compensation coefficient by using the frequency spectrum peak energy ratio sequence; and compensating for at least one of the time domain signal and the frequency domain signal by using the compensation coefficient, and calculating based on at least one of the compensated time domain signal and the frequency domain signal to obtain the physiological param
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 19, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 16, 2024
    Assignee: Shenzhen Mindray Bio-Medical Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Fei Han, Fei Ye, Zuming Yao, Fei Zhang, Xianliang He, Lihan Liu, Ming Li, Xingliang Jin
  • Patent number: 11872014
    Abstract: An optical detection device for physiological characteristic identification includes a substrate, a light source and an optical receiver. The light source includes a plurality of first lighting units and a plurality of second lighting units symmetrically arranged on the substrate. The optical receiver is disposed on the substrate and adapted to analyze optical signals emitted by the light source for acquiring a result of the physiological characteristic identification.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 28, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 16, 2024
    Assignee: PixArt Imaging Inc.
    Inventor: Cheng-Nan Tsai
  • Patent number: 11871172
    Abstract: An apparatus is described which comprises the following: (a) a housing configured to be carried in an ear, (b) a motion sensor unit for acquiring motion data, (c) a physiological sensor unit for acquiring physiological data, (d) a data processing unit configured to generate performance data based on the motion data and/or the physiological data, (e) a signal processing unit configured to generate an audio signal based on the generated performance data, and (f) a loudspeaker for outputting the generated audio signal, wherein the motion sensor unit, the physiological sensor unit, the loudspeaker, the data processing unit, and the signal processing unit are incorporated in the housing. Furthermore, a system, a method and a use is described.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 25, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 9, 2024
    Assignee: BRAGI GMBH
    Inventor: Nikolaj Hviid
  • Patent number: 11864922
    Abstract: A sensor system has a low-noise sensor controller providing communications between an active-temperature-regulated optical sensor and an external monitor. A low-noise sensor controller drives optical emitters, receives resulting detected signals after attenuation by a blood perfused tissue site and communicates the detector signals to the attached signal processor. An optically-isolated controller front-end receives and digitizes the detected signals. A controller serializer transmits the digitized detector signal to the processor via a single, shielded coaxial cable.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 12, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 9, 2024
    Assignee: Cercacor Laboratories, Inc.
    Inventors: Cristiano Dalvi, Jeroen Poeze