Patents Examined by Benjamin J Klein
  • Patent number: 12714308
    Abstract: A method includes providing one or more instructions to perform a first action associated with administration of a medication; obtaining first data representing a capture of a patient performing the first action based on the one or more instructions as output by the output device; extracting information about movements of the patient from the first data; presenting an image configured to induce an emotional response in the patient; obtaining second data representing capture of the patient performing one or more microexpressions in response to presentation of the image; obtaining additional data including one or more of demographic information of the patient, information of a disease associated with the patient, or one or more characteristics of the medication; and based on the extracted information about the movements, the one or more microexpressions, and the additional data, determining a medical outcome including a progression of the disease in the patient.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 5, 2023
    Date of Patent: August 25, 2026
    Assignee: AICure Corporation
    Inventors: Adam Hanina, Ryan Bardsley, Michelle Marlborough, Daniel Glasner, Dehua Lai, Xiaoguang Lu, Edward Ikeguchi
  • Patent number: 12714846
    Abstract: A blood pump system including a blood pump, an intravascular flow cannula, and a pressure sensor. The intravascular flow cannula is in flow communication with the blood pump and has a distal end portion distally from the blood pump and a proximal end portion closer to the blood pump. The intravascular flow cannula has at least one blood flow through opening at its distal end portion for blood to enter or exit the flow cannula. The blood flow through opening has a borderline surrounding the through opening. The pressure sensor is configured radially within the flow cannula and borders a proximal portion of the borderline.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 24, 2024
    Date of Patent: August 25, 2026
    Assignee: Abiomed Europe GmbH
    Inventors: Thorsten Siess, Frank Kirchhoff, Christoph Nix
  • Patent number: 12702479
    Abstract: A catheter system includes a power source, a controller, and a light guide. The power source generates a plurality of energy pulses. The controller controls the power source so that the plurality of energy pulses cooperate to produce a composite energy pulse having a composite pulse shape. The light guide receives the composite energy pulse. The light guide emits light energy in a direction away from the light guide to generate a plasma pulse away from the light guide. The power source can be a laser and the light guide can be an optical fiber. Each of the energy pulses has a pulse width, and the energy pulses are added to one another so that the composite energy pulse has a pulse width that is longer than the pulse width of any one of the energy pulses. At least two of the energy pulses can have the same wavelength as or a different wavelength from one another.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 3, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 11, 2026
    Assignee: BOSTON SCIENTIFIC SCIMED, INC.
    Inventors: Daniel Massimini, Roger McGowan, Haiping Shao, Christopher A. Cook
  • Patent number: 12702310
    Abstract: A device for providing augmented reality may include a support frame supporting at least one transparent lens, an image display module displaying augmented reality content through the at least one transparent lens, a blood-pressure information detector connected to the support frame to detect at least one blood-pressure related information including a blood-pressure, a heart rate, and oxygen saturation in case that a skin of the user touches the blood-pressure information detector, a skin information detector connected to the support frame to detect at least one skin related information including a moisture level and an oil level of the user's skin in case that the user's skin touches the skin information detector, and a control module that controls the image display module to display the at least one blood-pressure related and the at least one skin related information as augmented reality contents.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 25, 2022
    Date of Patent: August 11, 2026
    Assignee: SAMSUNG DISPLAY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Tae Hee Lee, Min Woo Kim, So Young Yeo, So Yeon Yoon, Ok Yi Lee
  • Patent number: 12702838
    Abstract: A device used for neurostimulation includes a plurality of electrodes. In order to improve therapeutic efficacy when using a group of N electrodes equal to or larger than 3, the device is configured to deliver a number of N+1 electrical phases during one cycle via the electrodes such that during N electrical phases of the cycle each electrode of the group delivers alternating a therapeutic electric phase and a number of N?1 charge balancing electric phases. One electrode of the group delivers its specific therapeutic electric phase and the other electrodes of the group deliver a charge balancing phase having an opposite polarity of the therapeutic electric phase delivered, and such that during an additional electrical phase each electrode of the plurality of electrodes delivers an electrical phase with an amplitude that establishes charge neutrality for residual charge on each respective electrode based on phases of the N other electrical.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 10, 2022
    Date of Patent: August 11, 2026
    Assignee: BIOTRONIK SE & Co. KG
    Inventors: Sean Slee, Andrew B. Kibler, Marcelo Baru
  • Patent number: 12702510
    Abstract: A method comprises driving, by a motor, a camshaft of a transmission of a telesurgically operated instrument to a first rotational state of a plurality of rotational states. The camshaft defines a longitudinal axis and rotates about the longitudinal axis. The method further comprises engaging, in the first rotational state, a first input gear of a first effector drivetrain of the transmission with a first gear of the first effector drivetrain via a first power cam of the camshaft. The method further comprises disengaging, in the first rotational state, a first locker arm of the first effector drivetrain from the first gear via a first locker cam of the camshaft.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 17, 2023
    Date of Patent: August 11, 2026
    Assignee: INTUITIVE SURGICAL OPERATIONS, INC.
    Inventors: Gabriel F. Brisson, Niels Smaby, Melody Wu
  • Patent number: 12702842
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides systems and methods relating to neuromodulation. In particular, the present disclosure provides systems and methods for evaluating the efficacy of neuromodulation therapy using evoked potential (EPs). The systems and methods disclosed herein facilitate the evaluation of both parameter-dependent and system-dependent changes in EPs as indicators of therapeutic efficacy.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 13, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 11, 2026
    Assignee: Duke University
    Inventors: Isaac Cassar, Warren Grill
  • Patent number: 12706211
    Abstract: A network-hosted product selection system includes a first server having at least one connected data repository, the first server including a non-transitory medium coupled thereto, the non-transitory medium including instructions for the first server to accept a digitally coded patient state diagnosis model from a connected input device, parse said diagnosis model for information, compare results with information derived from individual ones of product data models, the product data models including parse able tags weighing efficacy in treatment of one or more medical conditions and or symptoms derived from the patient state diagnosis model, select one or more product data models weighing high in efficacy based on at least collective tag weight and displaying products and associated transactional data and product consumption recommendation data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 20, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 11, 2026
    Assignee: Global Healing Arts LLC
    Inventors: Ronald Douglas Brazil, James E. Thomas, Mark Ferrel
  • Patent number: 12697077
    Abstract: An electronic device, method, and computer-readable recording medium execute a customizable physiological measurement schedule for measuring one or more physiological parameters of a patient. A display displays information related to the patient including physiological data, and a memory is configured to store one or more programs. The one or more processors execute the one or more programs to provide a graphical user interface (“GUI”) on the display including a customizable measurement schedule. An input is received directed to one or more measurement times and corresponding measurement intervals of the one or more physiological parameters to the customizable measurement schedule using a first selection. When the customizable measurement schedule is executed, the one or more programs when executed by the one or more processors provide a first visible indication as each measurement time and corresponding measurement interval of the customizable measurement schedule is completed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 30, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 4, 2026
    Assignee: Drägerwerk AG & Co. KGaA
    Inventors: Rajesh S. Rane, Lianna Colombo
  • Patent number: 12690774
    Abstract: The various implementations described herein include methods and systems for monitoring biometric information. In one aspect, a method includes (i) capturing, via an inward-facing camera of an artificial-reality headset, a plurality of images of a region of a face of the user, the region including an eye of the user, where (a) a first image of the plurality of images includes a first position of a pupil in the eye, and (b) a second image of the plurality of images includes a second position of the pupil in the eye, the second position different than the first position; and (ii) determining heart rate information based on the plurality of images.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 26, 2023
    Date of Patent: July 28, 2026
    Assignee: Meta Platforms Technologies, LLC
    Inventors: Brian Keith Cabral, Michael John Toksvig
  • Patent number: 12690817
    Abstract: An apparatus and method for subject monitoring and diagnosing with non-invasive measures are disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 4, 2024
    Date of Patent: July 28, 2026
    Assignee: Anumana, Inc.
    Inventors: Rakesh Barve, Samir Awasthi, Abhijith Chunduru, Suthirth Vaidya
  • Patent number: 12685876
    Abstract: A device for non-invasive light delivery to a subject. The device includes a controller disposed in the housing, the controller being electrically connected to the power source; at least one waveform electronics assembly; a plurality of laser diodes disposed in the housing, the plurality of laser diodes being configured to operate in a super-pulsed regime, the controller being configured to operate the plurality of laser diodes with a Megahertz (MHz) modulation and peak power in milliwatts (mW), the plurality of laser diodes including at least one near-infrared laser diode, at least one mid-infrared laser diode, at least one far-infrared laser diode, and at least one visible-range laser diode; a plurality of optical fibers bundled into at least one fiber bundle, a distal end of the at least one fiber bundle being arranged and configured for delivering light from the plurality of optical fibers to the subject.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 14, 2023
    Date of Patent: July 21, 2026
    Assignee: POLYTONE LASER INC. / LASER POLYTONIE INC.
    Inventors: Luis Alberto Santana Blank, Elizabeth Rodriguez De Santana
  • Patent number: 12678332
    Abstract: In certain embodiments, a surgical contact lens system for ophthalmic treatment with a laser beam includes a patient contact lens and a surgical contact lens. The patient contact lens reduces one or more refractive errors of the eye and has a concave surface and a convex surface. The concave surface is to be disposed outwardly from a cornea of an eye. The surgical contact lens has an eye end to be disposed outwardly from the convex surface of the patient contact lens. The surgical contact lens includes a frame and an optical component coupled to the frame. The patient contact lens reduces pressure from the surgical contact lens to reduce corneal folding of a posterior surface of the cornea. The optical component of the surgical contact lens and the patient contact lens transmit the laser beam to treat the eye.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 4, 2022
    Date of Patent: July 14, 2026
    Assignee: Alcon Inc.
    Inventor: Zsolt Bor
  • Patent number: 12667314
    Abstract: Certain exemplary embodiments can provide an apparatus wearable by a user. The apparatus can comprise a biometric sensor constructed to generate signals based upon measurements of the user. The apparatus can comprise a processor constructed to determine a significant detrimental change in the user via an algorithm based upon the signals.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 29, 2022
    Date of Patent: June 30, 2026
    Assignee: SHERLOCK SOLUTIONS LLC
    Inventor: Robert Sampson
  • Patent number: 12667727
    Abstract: An electrical stimulation method is provided. The electrical stimulation method is applied to an electrical stimulation device. The steps of the electrical stimulation method include obtaining a target energy value; providing an electrical stimulation signal to a target area; calculating a total energy value according to an energy value transmitted from the electrical stimulation signal to the target area; and determining whether the total energy value has reached the target energy value.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 2, 2022
    Date of Patent: June 30, 2026
    Assignee: COFORCE MEDICAL CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Chi-Heng Chang, Jian-Hao Pan
  • Patent number: 12667440
    Abstract: A medical system can include a foot pedal assembly that includes one or more pedals configured to be foot operated for controlling various function of the system. A dynamic indicator can be associated with a first pedal of the one or more pedals. The dynamic indicator can be configured to provide a first indication when the medical system is in a first state, and provide a second indication when the medical system is in a second state. The system can further be configured to determine a state of the medical system, cause the dynamic indicator to provide the first indication in response to the determined state comprising the first state, and cause the dynamic indicator to provide the second indication in response to the determined state comprising the second state.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 30, 2020
    Date of Patent: June 30, 2026
    Assignee: AURIS HEALTH, INC.
    Inventors: Alexander Tarek Hassan, Eloi Le Roux
  • Patent number: 12661515
    Abstract: Systems and methods for closed-loop control of electrostimulation based on signal features derived from evoked neural activities are disclosed. A system comprises an electrostimulator to deliver a stimulation therapy, a sensing circuit to sense an evoked response induced by the stimulation therapy, and a controller circuit to identify, from a plurality of candidate signal features, a target signal feature that satisfies a performance criterion for distinguishing a first stimulation effect according to a first stimulation setting from a second stimulation effect according to a different second stimulation setting. The target signal feature can be identified based on evaluations of a discrimination metric for each of the candidate signal features. The controller circuit can determine a value of the target signal feature from the sensed evoked response, and control the electrostimulator to adjust the stimulation therapy based on the value of the target signal feature.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 7, 2023
    Date of Patent: June 23, 2026
    Assignee: Boston Scientific Neuromodulation Corporation
    Inventors: Andrew James Haddock, Tianhe Zhang, Satya Venkata Sandeep Avvaru
  • Patent number: 12661522
    Abstract: A transducer apparatus for delivering tumor treating fields to a subject's body, the transducer apparatus including: a plurality of electrode elements; wherein the plurality of electrode elements comprises a first electrode element and a second electrode element, wherein the first electrode element and the second electrode element are substantially located in a plane of the transducer apparatus; and when viewed from a direction perpendicular to the plane, the first electrode element and the second electrode element have edges located adjacent each other without any other electrodes between them, wherein the edges of the first electrode element and the second electrode element extend parallel to each other along their length.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 11, 2022
    Date of Patent: June 23, 2026
    Assignee: Novocure GmbH
    Inventors: Yoram Wasserman, Stas Obuchovsky, Nataliya Kuplennik, David Shapiro, Elie Yaacobi, Golan Bar-Tal, Noa Halavee
  • Patent number: 12653487
    Abstract: Provided is a digital stethoscope capable of outputting a heart sound data and/or a therapeutic data. The digital stethoscope includes a housing, a physiological data acquisition unit configured to acquire the heart sound data, a therapeutic data unit providing the therapeutic data and an output unit configured to output heart sound data and/or therapeutic data, wherein the physiological data acquisition unit and the therapeutic data unit are provided within the housing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 14, 2021
    Date of Patent: June 16, 2026
    Assignee: Ravnovesje d.o.o.
    Inventor: Klemen Rebolj
  • Patent number: 12636514
    Abstract: Respiratory function can be preserved and/or enhanced in patients with a respiratory insufficiency using a photoceutical applied by a photoceutical medical device to at least one primary inspiratory muscle and/or a lung. At least one site on a body of a patient can be selected for delivery of the photoceutical to the muscle(s); and the photoceutical can be applied at the at least one site by the photoceutical medical device for a time period from a first start time to a first end time to treat the at least one primary inspiratory muscle and/or the lung of the patient to preserve and/or enhance the respiratory function. The photoceutical can include a light signal with at least one delivery scheme (e.g., superpulsed, pulsed. and/or continuous) and one or more wavelengths.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 31, 2022
    Date of Patent: May 26, 2026
    Assignee: MEDICAL QUANT USA INC.
    Inventors: Douglas Johnson, Max Kanarsky, Ernesto Cesar Pinto Leal Junior