Patents Examined by Daniel L Cerioni
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Patent number: 12042268Abstract: One or more radar sensors can be used to monitor patients in a variety of different environments and embodiments. In one embodiment, radar sensors can be used to monitor a patient's movement, including movement in a patient bed and around a room. In another embodiment, a patient position can be monitored in a patient bed, which can be used as feedback for control of bladders of a patient bed. Additional embodiments are described herein.Type: GrantFiled: March 2, 2021Date of Patent: July 23, 2024Assignee: Hill-Rom Services, Inc.Inventors: Steven D. Baker, Douglas A. Seim, Frank E. Sauser, Theodore Corsaro, Michael Churilla, Kathryn R. Smith, Eric R. Meyer, Gregory J. Shannon, Michael S. Hood, Brandon P. Fisk, Rachel L. Williamson
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Patent number: 12042287Abstract: A catheter system may include a catheter adapter, which may include a distal end, a proximal end, a lumen extending through the distal end and the proximal end, and a side port in fluid communication with the lumen. A catheter may extend distally from the catheter adapter. A septum may be disposed within the lumen. The septum may include a first slit generally aligned with a longitudinal axis of the catheter and a second slit offset from the longitudinal axis of the catheter. An introducer needle may be secured within a needle hub and may extend through the catheter and the first slit of the septum. A winged needle set may include: a body; a needle extending distally from the body and through the second slit of the septum; an extension tube extending from the body; and a blood collection device coupled to the extension tube.Type: GrantFiled: August 10, 2020Date of Patent: July 23, 2024Assignee: Becton, Dickinson and CompanyInventor: Jithendra Kumar
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Patent number: 12036019Abstract: Systems and methods are disclosed for non-invasively measuring blood glucose levels in a biological sample based on spectral data. This includes a light source to strike a target area of a sample, a light detector positioned to receive light from the light source and to generate an output signal, having a time dependent current, which is indicative of the power of light detected, a processor to receive the output signal from the light detector based on the received output signal, calculate the attenuance attributable to blood in a sample present in the target area with a ratio factor, eliminate effect of uncertainty caused by temperature dependent detector response of the light detector, and then determine a blood glucose level associated with a sample present in the target area based on the calculated attenuance with the processor.Type: GrantFiled: April 9, 2021Date of Patent: July 16, 2024Assignee: St. Louis Medical Devices, Inc.Inventor: Zhi Xu
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Patent number: 12029548Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a novel device for selective collection and condensation of an exhaled breath, and the method of using the novel device. The novel device is portable and capable of collecting and condensing reproducible volumes of exhaled breath under about 10 minutes by using a unique temperature-based algorithm.Type: GrantFiled: June 18, 2019Date of Patent: July 9, 2024Assignee: Purdue Research FoundationInventors: Jacqueline C. Linnes, Divya Tankasala, Shubhankar S. Takle, Orlando S. Hoilett, Gabriel P. Ng, Michael S. Smith
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Patent number: 12016663Abstract: A pulse diagnosis apparatus includes a base, a bearing and a plurality of sensing module. The base has a motion module. The motion module is disposed on the base and moves back and forward in a first direction. The bearing is disposed on the motion module and includes a first face and a second face. Each sensing module includes a driving element, a flexible element and a sensing unit. The driving element moves in the first direction and passes through the bearing. The driving element includes a first terminal and a second terminal. The first terminal is adjacent to the second face. The second terminal is adjacent to the first face. The flexible element is hitched up the driving element. Two terminals of the flexible element are against the second terminal and the bearing. The sensing unit is disposed on the second terminal.Type: GrantFiled: October 26, 2021Date of Patent: June 25, 2024Assignee: AU OPTRONICS CORPORATIONInventors: Min-Qian Jiang, Chung-Chin Huang, Yi-Han Chang, Hao-Lun Hsieh
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Patent number: 11992292Abstract: Diagnostic systems and methods including temperature-sensing vascular devices. A diagnostic system can include a catheter assembly for establishing vascular or other access within a body of a patient. The catheter assembly can be equipped with one or more sensors such as temperature sensors that enable monitoring of one or more physiological aspects of the patient, such as temperature, when a portion of the catheter assembly is disposed within the patient. The catheter assembly can be configured to transmit or otherwise forward data relating to the physiological aspects to another location, such as a console, a smartphone or another mobile device, a nurse station, a patient electronic medical record, etc. A method of the diagnostic system can include an instantiating step of instantiating in memory of the console a diagnostic process having one or more functions for at least processing temperature data from the catheter assembly.Type: GrantFiled: January 7, 2021Date of Patent: May 28, 2024Assignee: Bard Access Systems, Inc.Inventors: Samuel Akins, Gidon Ofek
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Patent number: 11986291Abstract: Systems and methods are disclosed for non-invasively measuring blood glucose levels in a biological sample based on spectral data. This includes utilizing at least one light source configured to strike a target area of a sample, utilizing at least one light filter positioned to receive light transmitted through the target area from the at least one light source, utilizing at least one light detector positioned to receive light from the at least one light source and filtered by the at least one light filter, and to generate an output signal, having a time dependent current, which is indicative of the power of light detected, receiving the output signal from the at least one light detector with a processor and based on the received output signal, calculating the attenuance attributable to blood in a sample with a signal-to-noise ratio of at least 20-to-1; and determining a blood glucose level.Type: GrantFiled: July 29, 2021Date of Patent: May 21, 2024Assignee: St. Louis Medical Devices, Inc.Inventor: Zhi Xu
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Patent number: 11980447Abstract: An esophageal deflection device includes an elongate outer tube that has a natural curved deflection at a position that corresponds to a targeted esophagus region for deflection. The outer diameter of the outer tube is substantially matched to an inner diameter of the esophagus to closely contact the esophagus wall, or is at least half of the inner diameter, or is smaller and includes suction ports for drawing the esophagus wall inward. An insertion rod or tube includes a portion that is stiffer than the curved deflection, and slides into the elongate outer tube to straighten the tube and can serve to guide the deflection device into an esophagus. Subsequent withdrawal of the insertion tube or rod will allow the curved deflection to return to its natural shape and deflect the targeted region of the esophagus.Type: GrantFiled: March 8, 2018Date of Patent: May 14, 2024Assignee: The Regents of the University of CaliforniaInventors: Karcher Morris, Anay Mahesh Pandit, Thomas Savides, Young Seo, Frank Talke, Youyi Fu, Greg Feld, Scott Garner
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Patent number: 11963736Abstract: A device for obtaining physiological information of a medical patient and wirelessly transmitting the obtained physiological information to a wireless receiver. The device can include a blood pressure device that can be coupled to a medical patient and a wireless transceiver electrically coupled with the blood pressure device. The wireless transceiver can wirelessly transmit blood pressure data received by the blood pressure device and physiological data received from one or more physiological sensors coupled to the blood pressure device.Type: GrantFiled: December 30, 2020Date of Patent: April 23, 2024Assignee: MASIMO CORPORATIONInventors: James P. Welch, Massi Joe E. Kiani, Gregory A. Olsen, Nicholas Evan Barker
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Methods and systems using modeling of crystalline materials for spot placement for radiation therapy
Patent number: 11957934Abstract: A crystalline structure modeling methodology that is conventionally used to model crystalline matter down to the atomic level is instead used to determine spot placement for radiation treatment. The cross-sectional shape of a treatment target is specified; locations (peaks) in a density field inside the shape are determined using the crystalline structure model; locations of spots in the treatment target for spot scanning are determined, where the locations correspond to the locations (peaks) inside the shape determined using the crystalline structure model; and the locations of the spots are stored as candidates for potential inclusion in a radiation treatment plan.Type: GrantFiled: July 1, 2020Date of Patent: April 16, 2024Assignee: SIEMENS HEALTHINEERS INTERNATIONAL AGInventors: Petri Hirvonen, Michiko Rossi, Pierre Lansonneur, Matti Ropo, Viljo Petaja, Perttu Niemela, Timo Koponen -
Patent number: 11951267Abstract: The present disclosure relates to guidewire devices having shapeable tips and effective torquability. A guidewire device includes a core having a proximal section and a tapered distal section. A tube structure is coupled to the core such that the tapered distal section extends into the tube structure. The tube structure includes a plurality of bypass cuts formed tangentially within the tube structure to increase the flexibility of the tube structure and to reduce the tendency of resilient forces from the tube structure to disrupt a shaped distal tip of the guidewire device.Type: GrantFiled: June 1, 2021Date of Patent: April 9, 2024Assignee: Scientia Vascular, Inc.Inventors: John A Lippert, Edward J. Snyder, Clark C. Davis
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Patent number: 11931173Abstract: A mobile healthcare device and method of operating the same are provided. The method includes setting a mode of the mobile healthcare device to a measurement mode, displaying a screen for guiding a user to maintain a predetermined position during the measurement mode, and, in response to a predetermined amount of time passing from a time at which the screen begins to be displayed, obtaining state information of the user based on bio information of the user, the bio information being received from a sensor.Type: GrantFiled: July 6, 2021Date of Patent: March 19, 2024Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.Inventors: Kunsun Eom, Kak Namkoong, Yeolho Lee, Myounghoon Jung, Seongho Cho
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Patent number: 11931183Abstract: A system of sensors integrated into toys for monitoring free play activity of a human subject wherein patterns in play activity automatically are weighted into a pattern for identification of behavioral milestones, developmental progress and/or behavioral disorders. Specifically, accelerometers detect movement of toys which determine: (1) if the toy is being played with; and (2) the intensity in which the toy is moved. Pressure sensors detect the level and location in which a child may hold a toy. Synchronized with an audiovisual record of the play therapy session and a computer-generated avatar representation of the physical object, this data is integrated to find peak levels of behavior giving clinicians more efficient analytical tools.Type: GrantFiled: April 29, 2020Date of Patent: March 19, 2024Assignee: University of Central Florida Research Foundation, Inc.Inventors: Dalena Dillman Taylor, Dave Edyburn
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Patent number: 11931179Abstract: Optical-and-electrical medical systems and methods thereof are disclosed. Such a medical system can include a console, an optical shape-sensing (“OSS”) medical device including an optical-fiber stylet, one or more electrical medical devices, and a relay module for establishing one or more optical or electrical relay connections between the relay module and a remainder of the medical system including the console. The console can be configured for converting reflected optical signals from the optical-fiber stylet into shapes thereof for display. The relay module can include a primary receptacle configured to accept insertion of a medical barrier-piercing plug of the OSS medical device and establish a through-barrier optical connection therebetween. The relay module also can include one or more secondary receptacles configured to accept insertion of a corresponding number of electrical plugs of the one-or-more electrical medical devices and establish one or more under-barrier electrical connections therebetween.Type: GrantFiled: March 30, 2021Date of Patent: March 19, 2024Assignee: Bard Access Systems, Inc.Inventors: Steffan Sowards, Anthony K. Misener, William Robert McLaughlin
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Patent number: 11911147Abstract: A body sway measurement system is disclosed herein. The body sway measurement system includes an inertial measurement unit or camera configured to generate time series output data for determining one or more parameters indicative of the body sway of a user; and a mobile device or other computing device having a data processor, the data processor including at least one hardware component, the data processor being operatively coupled to the inertial measurement unit or camera, the data processor configured to receive the time series output data from the inertial measurement unit or camera, and the data processor and/or a cloud server configured to determine the one or more parameters indicative of the body sway of the user using a trained neural network.Type: GrantFiled: June 9, 2022Date of Patent: February 27, 2024Assignee: Bertec CorporationInventors: Necip Berme, Murat Kerim Berme, Fernando Vanderlinde dos Santos, Mohan Chandra Baro
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Patent number: 11896206Abstract: A method is provided for measuring an opening of an appendage of an atrium of a subject, the method including inserting a catheter into the atrium of the subject using a transvenous approach. Thereafter, at least one loop is deployed from a wall of the catheter, such that a distal end of the loop is distal to a distal end of the catheter. Thereafter, the loop is used to measure the opening of the appendage. Other embodiments are also described.Type: GrantFiled: January 30, 2019Date of Patent: February 13, 2024Assignee: TRANSSEPTAL SOLUTIONS LTD.Inventor: Elad Sapir
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Patent number: 11889996Abstract: A specimen collection container having a separation chamber includes a first chamber, a second chamber, and a valve located between the first chamber and the second chamber. In an open position, the valve permits fluid communication between the first chamber and the second chamber. In a closed position, the valve maintains fluid isolation between the first chamber and the second chamber. A fluid stream passes from the first chamber to the second chamber through the valve permitting a predetermined volume of fluid to pass from the first chamber to the second chamber. When the predetermined volume of fluid passes to the second chamber, the valve transitions from the open position to the closed position so that additional fluid of the fluid stream received by the first chamber is maintained in the first chamber in fluid isolation from the predetermined volume of fluid contained in the second chamber.Type: GrantFiled: January 31, 2018Date of Patent: February 6, 2024Assignee: Becton, Dickinson and CompanyInventors: Robert G. Ellis, Keith A. Moskowitz, Craig A. Gelfand, Raymond T. Wasek, Bradley M. Wilkinson, Jean-Bernard Alla, Kenneth Louis Lee
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Patent number: 11883195Abstract: The disclosure provides BMDs that have multiple device modes depending on operational conditions of the devices, e.g., motion intensity, device placement, and/or activity type. The device modes are associated with various data processing algorithms. In some embodiments, the BMD is implemented as a wrist-worn or arm-worn device. In some embodiments, methods for tracking physiological metrics using the BMDs are provided. In some embodiments, the process or the BMD applies a time domain analysis on data provided by a sensor of the BMD for a first activity, and applies a frequency domain analysis on the data for a second activity, which contributes to improved accuracy and speed of biometric data.Type: GrantFiled: June 27, 2019Date of Patent: January 30, 2024Assignee: FITBIT, INC.Inventors: Jung Ook Hong, Andrew Larsen Axley, Shelten Gee Jao Yuen
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Patent number: 11883188Abstract: A method comprising receiving data from a sleep sensor integrated in a mattress system, the sleep sensor coupled via a cord to a data collection unit, analyzing the data at the data collection unit, and providing results of the analyzed data to a user mobile device via a wireless connection, for display to the user.Type: GrantFiled: March 15, 2016Date of Patent: January 30, 2024Assignee: DP Technologies, Inc.Inventors: Philippe Richard Kahn, Arthur Kinsolving, Mark Andrew Christensen, Venkat Easwar
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Patent number: 11872054Abstract: A physiological sensor includes a sensing element to detect physiological information from a patient's skin, a substrate configured to hold the sensing element on the patient's skin, and at least two contact probes on the substrate. The contact probes are positioned on the substrate such that galvanically contact the patient's skin when the substrate is fully attached against the patient's skin. A controller is configured to measure impedance between the at least two contact probes and determine whether the substrate has lifted from the patient's skin based on the impedance.Type: GrantFiled: June 2, 2020Date of Patent: January 16, 2024Assignee: GE Precision Healthcare LLCInventor: Daniel W. Medeiros