Patents Examined by Eric F. Winakur
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Patent number: 11950906Abstract: This disclosure is related to devices, systems, and techniques for performing patient parameter measurements. In some examples, a medical device system includes an optical sensor configured to measure ambient light and a tissue oxygen saturation parameter and processing circuitry configured to determine that a current measurement of the tissue oxygen saturation parameter is prompted and control the optical sensor to perform an ambient light measurement associated with the current measurement of the tissue oxygen saturation parameter.Type: GrantFiled: February 1, 2022Date of Patent: April 9, 2024Assignee: Medtronic, Inc.Inventors: Jonathan L. Kuhn, Can Cinbis, Saul E. Greenhut
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Patent number: 11950682Abstract: In various embodiments, a method of providing a hair treatment agent is provided. The method can have a detecting of at least one sensor value on hair of a user by employing at least one portable sensor, a determining of a hair condition of the user by employing the detected at least one sensor value, a computer-assisted determining of a user-specific hair treatment agent including the determined hair condition, and a preparing of the determined user-specific hair treatment agent by employing a hair treatment agent mixing device.Type: GrantFiled: May 29, 2018Date of Patent: April 9, 2024Assignee: HENKEL AG & CO. KGAAInventors: Esther Kumpan-Bahrami, Jordan Katzarov, Georg Knuebel
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Patent number: 11944452Abstract: An example method for detecting stability of a medical implant is provided. The method includes (a) applying a force to the medical implant with a probe, (b) based on the applied force, determining a response signal associated with a vibration of the medical implant, (c) comparing the determined response signal with a computer model of the medical implant, and (d) based on the comparison, determining an angular stiffness coefficient of the medical implant, wherein the angular stiffness coefficient indicates a stability of the medical implant.Type: GrantFiled: March 12, 2018Date of Patent: April 2, 2024Assignee: University of WashingtonInventors: I-Yeu Shen, John A. Sorensen, Naseeba Khouja, Wei Che Tai
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Patent number: 11944418Abstract: Disclosed embodiments relate to apparatuses and methods for a skin perfusion pressure determination device.Type: GrantFiled: September 11, 2019Date of Patent: April 2, 2024Assignee: Smith & Nephew PLCInventors: Allan Kenneth Frazer Grugeon Hunt, Peter Georg Laitenberger, Lee Ian Partington, Marcus Damian Phillips, Felix Clarence Quintanar
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Patent number: 11944454Abstract: A system includes a garment and a sensor module. The garment includes an engagement feature. The garment is configured to encompass a first location on a body. The engagement feature is positioned in fixed alignment with the garment. The sensor module includes a sensor housing and includes a sensor having an electrical node. The sensor is configured to provide an electrical output on the node. The housing has a complementary feature. The complementary feature is configured to couple and decouple with the engagement feature. The electrical output is based on a measure of a physiological parameter associated with the body and is based on site information corresponding to the engagement feature.Type: GrantFiled: August 14, 2015Date of Patent: April 2, 2024Assignee: NONIN MEDICAL, INC.Inventors: Scott Gregory Klimek, Gregory J. Rausch
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Patent number: 11937905Abstract: Methods, systems, and devices for leveraging data from multiple data sources are described. A method includes receiving physiological data associated with a user from a wearable device and receiving additional data from an external device different from the wearable device, the additional data including at least data associated with characteristics of an environment associated with the user. The method further includes identifying one or more relationships between the collected physiological data and the characteristics of the environment associated with the user, and causing a graphical user interface (GUI) of a user device to display an indication of the one or more relationships, a message associated with the one or more relationships, or both. In some cases, the method includes causing the GUI to display instructions for selectively adjusting the one or more characteristics of the environment associated with the user based on the one or more relationships.Type: GrantFiled: December 22, 2022Date of Patent: March 26, 2024Assignee: Oura Health OyInventors: Robert Alexander Singleton, Steve Kent, Mika Erkkilä, Heli Tuulia Koskimäki, Michael Chapp
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Patent number: 11937900Abstract: The present invention relates to the field of medical monitoring, and in particular non-contact monitoring and communication with other medical monitoring devices. Systems and methods are described for receiving a video signal of a medical monitoring device that is outputting a light signal, identifying the light signal emitted by the medical monitoring device from the video signal, decoding information from the light signal, and determining a communication from the decoded information related to a patient being monitored or the medical monitoring device itself.Type: GrantFiled: February 3, 2021Date of Patent: March 26, 2024Assignee: Covidien LPInventors: Paul S. Addison, Keith Batchelder
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Patent number: 11937920Abstract: Intelligent real-time blood glucose monitoring system and method based on cloud big data is disclosed. The system includes an implantable dynamic glucose sensor, a smart phone, a blood glucose monitoring software application installed on the smart phone, a finger blood glucose meter, and a big data cloud server. By processing historical blood glucose measurement data of a user stored in the cloud, the monitoring system effectively corrects and influences signal differences produced by individual users so as to ensure the validity and accuracy of measurement signals during sensor operation.Type: GrantFiled: October 8, 2018Date of Patent: March 26, 2024Assignee: MICROTECH MEDICAL (HANGZHOU) CO., LTD.Inventors: Fei Yu, Zhiyan Chen
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Patent number: 11937925Abstract: Independent component analysis may be performed on a plurality of detected electronic signals to separate signals within the detected electronic signals that are contributed by different sources. Each of the plurality of detected electronic signals may be received from a separate detector and may correspond to a detected optical signal emanating from a pregnant mammal's abdomen and a fetus contained therein. The detected optical signals may correspond to light that is projected into the pregnant mammal's abdomen from a light source. The separated signals may be analyzed to determine a separated signal that corresponds to light incident upon the fetus, which may be analyzed to determine a fetal hemoglobin oxygen saturation level of the fetus. An indication of the fetal hemoglobin oxygen saturation level may then be provided to the user.Type: GrantFiled: July 20, 2022Date of Patent: March 26, 2024Assignee: Raydiant Oximetry, Inc.Inventors: Neil Padharia Ray, Mark Andrew Rosen, Adam Jacobs, Kenneth Holt
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Patent number: 11937923Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: April 30, 2021Date of Patent: March 26, 2024Assignee: WITHINGSInventors: Paul Edouard, Romain Kirszenblat
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Patent number: 11931147Abstract: Robust estimation of a characteristic of a user's physiological signals can be achieved by filtering or classifying samples. Rather than estimating the characteristic of the user's physiological signals based on each sample at a first wavelength and a second wavelength, a robust system and method can, in some examples, estimate the characteristic using samples at the first wavelength and the second wavelength that meet one or more criteria and filter out samples that fail to meet the one or more criteria. In some examples, the system and method can weight samples based on the one or more criteria, and estimate the characteristic using the weighted samples. Samples failing to meet the one or more criteria can be given less weight or no weight in the estimation. The one or more criteria can include a criterion based on at least the physiological signal at a third wavelength.Type: GrantFiled: May 13, 2022Date of Patent: March 19, 2024Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventors: Saeed Mohammadi, Albert E. Cerussi, Paul D. Mannheimer
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Motion state monitoring system, training support system, motion state monitoring method, and program
Patent number: 11925458Abstract: A motion state monitoring system, a training support system, a motion state monitoring method, and a program capable of suitably managing measurement results according to an attaching direction of a sensor are provided. A motion state monitoring system according to the present disclosure monitors a motion state of a target part of a subject's body. The motion state monitoring system includes an acquisition unit, an attaching direction detection unit, and a control processing unit. The acquisition unit acquires sensing information of a sensor attached to the target part. The attaching direction detection unit detects an attaching direction of the sensor. The control processing unit outputs information related to the sensing information in association with the attaching direction.Type: GrantFiled: August 13, 2021Date of Patent: March 12, 2024Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Makoto Kobayashi, Toru Miyagawa, Issei Nakashima, Keisuke Suga, Masayuki Imaida, Manabu Yamamoto, Yohei Otaka, Masaki Katoh, Asuka Hirano, Taiki Yoshida -
Patent number: 11925438Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: October 17, 2022Date of Patent: March 12, 2024Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.Inventors: Sung Hyun Nam, So Young Lee, Ka Ram Choi
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Patent number: 11925464Abstract: An evaluation apparatus includes: a display screen; a gaze point detecting unit that detects a position of a gaze point of a subject observing the display screen; a display control unit that causes the display screen to display an image including a specific object and a comparison object different from the specific object; an area setting unit that sets a specific area corresponding to the specific object and a comparison area corresponding to the comparison object; a determining unit that, based on the position of the gaze point, determines whether the gaze point is present in the specific area and the comparison area during a period in which the image is displayed; a calculating unit that calculates gaze point data based on the determination result of the determining unit; and an evaluating unit that obtains evaluation data of the subject based on the gaze point data.Type: GrantFiled: September 24, 2020Date of Patent: March 12, 2024Assignee: JVCKENWOOD CorporationInventors: Katsuyuki Shudo, Makoto Kito
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Patent number: 11925483Abstract: A risk estimation apparatus includes a data acquisition unit that acquires measured data of foot pressures of the left foot and the right foot obtained by sensors that are provided in shoes and measure the foot pressures, a stance phase identification unit that identifies a starting timing and an ending timing of a stance phase of each of the left foot and the right foot from the measured data of the foot pressures, and a risk estimation unit that estimates a risk of abnormality of a lower limb on the basis of asymmetry between the foot pressures of the left foot and the right foot during the stance phase.Type: GrantFiled: June 29, 2021Date of Patent: March 12, 2024Assignee: NEC CORPORATIONInventors: Chenhui Huang, Kenichiro Fukushi, Yusuke Sekiguchi, Haruki Yaguchi, Keita Honda, Shinichi Izumi, Dai Owaki
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Patent number: 11928632Abstract: A method of deception detection based upon ocular information of a subject provides a video camera configured to record a close-up view of a subject's eye. A cognitive state model is configured to determine a high to a low cognitive load experienced by the subject. An emotional state model is configured to determine a high to a low state of arousal experienced by the subject. After asking a question, the ocular information is processed to identify changes in ocular signals of the subject. The cognitive state and emotional state models are evaluated based solely on the changes in ocular signals where a probability of the subject being either truthful or deceptive is estimated for a binary output.Type: GrantFiled: December 18, 2020Date of Patent: March 12, 2024Assignee: Senseye, Inc.Inventors: David Zakariaie, Jared Bowden, Patricia Herrmann, Seth Weisberg, Andrew R. Sommerlot, Taumer Anabtawi, Joseph Brown, Alexander Rowe
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Patent number: 11918324Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: August 11, 2020Date of Patent: March 5, 2024Assignee: 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
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Patent number: 11911134Abstract: An apparatus for non-invasively measuring bio-information is provided. The apparatus for estimating bio-information may include a pulse wave sensor configured to measure a pulse wave signal from an object; a sensor position sensor configured to obtain sensor position information of the pulse wave sensor with respect to the object, based on the object being in contact with the pulse wave sensor; and a processor configured to estimate the bio-information based on blood vessel position information of the object, the sensor position information, and the pulse wave signal.Type: GrantFiled: December 23, 2020Date of Patent: February 27, 2024Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.Inventors: Jin Woo Choi, Sang Yun Park, Hye Rim Lim, Jae Min Kang, Seung Woo Noh
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Patent number: 11911154Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: February 8, 2021Date of Patent: February 27, 2024Assignee: HUAZHONG UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGYInventors: Hao Wu, Xin Huang, Ganguang Yang
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Patent number: 11911148Abstract: Presented are concepts for monitoring walker usage by a subject. One such concept obtains movement data comprising values of detected movement of an arm of the subject for a first time period during which the subject is determined to have transferred between first and second locations the first time period. It is determined if the subject used a walker during the first time period based on a measure of variance in the values of detected movement of the subject's arm during the first time period.Type: GrantFiled: October 16, 2019Date of Patent: February 27, 2024Assignee: Koninklijke Philips N.V.Inventors: Warner Rudolph Theophile Ten Kate, Doortje Van De Wouw