Patents Examined by Eric F. Winakur
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Patent number: 12239450Abstract: Disclosed electroencephalogram (EEG) monitoring and detection systems and methods can detect differentiated electrographic seizure characteristics of different seizure types across a diverse group of patients. Disclosed systems and methods can utilize EEG data collected by discrete wireless EEG sensors positioned on a scalp of a patient.Type: GrantFiled: May 24, 2024Date of Patent: March 4, 2025Assignee: Epitel, Inc.Inventors: Mitchell A. Frankel, Avidor Kazen, Tyler James Newton, Zoë Vera Tosi
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Patent number: 12239422Abstract: An apparatus for estimating biological information may include a sensor configured to detect a first light signal and a second light signal from an object of a user and a processor configured to determine whether a condition for estimating biological information is satisfied based on the detected first light signal and estimate biological information based on the second light signal, wherein the sensor includes a force sensor configured to measure a force applied to the object when the object is in contact with a cover surface of the sensor.Type: GrantFiled: June 16, 2021Date of Patent: March 4, 2025Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.Inventors: Byung Hoon Ko, Yong Joo Kwon, Seung Woo Noh, Hyun Seok Moon, Sung Mo Ahn, Kun Sun Eom, Jong Wook Lee, Tak Hyung Lee, Myoung Hoon Jung, Chang Mok Choi
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Patent number: 12232842Abstract: An embodiment of a sensor device includes a base substrate, a circuit pattern formed overlying the interior surface of the substrate, a physiological characteristic sensor element on the exterior surface of the substrate, conductive plug elements located in vias formed through the substrate, each conductive plug element having one end coupled to a sensor electrode, and having another end coupled to the circuit pattern, a multilayer component stack carried on the substrate and connected to the circuit pattern, the stack including features and components to provide processing and wireless communication functionality for sensor data obtained in association with operation of the sensor device, and an enclosure structure coupled to the substrate to enclose the interior surface of the substrate, the circuit pattern, and the stack.Type: GrantFiled: October 19, 2022Date of Patent: February 25, 2025Assignee: Medtronic MiniMed, Inc.Inventors: Daniel Hahn, David L. Probst, Randal C. Schulhauser, Mohsen Askarinya, Patrick W. Kinzie, Thomas P. Miltich, Mark D. Breyen, Santhisagar Vaddiraju
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Patent number: 12232869Abstract: Various aspects of the present disclosure generally relate to a multispectral sensor device. In some aspects, a sensor device may obtain, from image data collected by a sensor of the sensor device, first image data regarding a first measurement location of a measurement target, and may obtain, from the image data, second image data regarding a second measurement location of the measurement target, wherein the first measurement location and the second measurement location are sub-surface measurement locations within the measurement target. The sensor device may determine, based on the first image data and the second image data, a pulse transit time measurement, and provide information identifying the pulse transit time measurement. Numerous other aspects are provided.Type: GrantFiled: October 15, 2020Date of Patent: February 25, 2025Assignee: VIAVI Solutions Inc.Inventor: William D. Houck
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Patent number: 12226205Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a continuous glucose monitoring device, in which a body attachment unit is manufactured so as to be assembled in an applicator, thereby minimizing additional work for a user in attaching the body attachment unit to a body, and allowing attachment of the body attachment unit to the body simply by operation of the applicator. In particular, a wireless communication chip is provided in the body attachment unit to enable communication with an external terminal, thereby enabling simple and convenient use without additional work of connecting a separate transmitter, and allowing easier maintenance. In addition, the continuous glucose monitoring device is activated by a user's operation after the body attachment unit is attached to the body, such that an activation start time can be adjusted to a time appropriate to the user's needs, and the continuous glucose monitoring device can be activated in a stabilized state, and thereby can monitor blood glucose more accurately.Type: GrantFiled: June 4, 2019Date of Patent: February 18, 2025Assignee: I-SENS, INC.Inventors: Kyung Chul Chae, Hyun Ho Choi, Goang Yel Ryu, Ji Hoon Wang, Young Jea Kang
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Patent number: 12226206Abstract: The present disclosure describes the derivation and measurement of a fractional oxygen saturation measurement. In one embodiment, a system includes an optical sensor and a processor. The optical sensor can emit light of multiple wavelengths directed at a measurement site of tissue of a patient, detect the light after attenuation by the tissue, and produce a signal representative of the detected light after attenuation. The processor can receive the signal representative of the detected light after attenuation and determine, using the signal, a fractional oxygen saturation measurement based on two or more different measures of fractional oxygen saturation.Type: GrantFiled: July 15, 2021Date of Patent: February 18, 2025Assignee: Masimo CorporationInventors: Philip Perea, Ammar Al-Ali, Massi Joe E. Kiani
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Patent number: 12228507Abstract: A method and apparatus of non-invasively determining a blood circulatory hemoglobin value for a subject using a near-infrared spectrophotometric (NIRS) sensing device is provided. The method includes: a) non-invasively sensing tissue of the subject using the NIRS sensing device at about a time T1, and determining at least one NIRS tissue totalHb value; b) acquiring at least one circulatory blood sample from the subject at about the time T1; c) determining at least one blood circulatory THb value; d) calibrating the NIRS sensing device using the at least one blood circulatory THb value and the at least one MRS tissue TotalHb value; and e) determining at least one blood circulatory hemoglobin value using the calibrated NIRS sensing device and the at least one NIRS tissue totalHb value.Type: GrantFiled: August 19, 2022Date of Patent: February 18, 2025Assignee: Becton, Dickinson and CompanyInventor: Paul B. Benni
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Patent number: 12226209Abstract: 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: March 5, 2024Date of Patent: February 18, 2025Assignee: RAYDIANT OXIMETRY, INC.Inventors: Neil Padharia Ray, Mark Andrew Rosen, Adam Jacobs, Kenneth Holt
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Patent number: 12220257Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: May 3, 2024Date of Patent: February 11, 2025Assignee: Masimo CorporationInventors: Samir Shreim, Vikrant Sharma, Philip Perea, Jennifer Rines, Clinton Robins, Chad Eichele, Yassir Kamel Abdul-Hafiz, Sean Devlin
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Patent number: 12213788Abstract: Provided are a seat system and a computer program product by which an occupant seated on a seat can grasp his/her own reflexes or the like. The seat system includes a seat which includes a seat body, and a sensor configured to acquire information for use in detecting motion of an occupant seated on the seat body, and a terminal configured to acquire the information from the sensor. The terminal outputs an instruction to prompt the occupant to make a predetermined motion, makes a determination based on the information acquired from the sensor as to whether or not the occupant has made the predetermined motion, and notifies the occupant of a response time elapsed between outputting the instruction and making the predetermined motion, and/or a performance level evaluated based on the response time.Type: GrantFiled: January 14, 2020Date of Patent: February 4, 2025Assignee: TS TECH CO., LTD.Inventors: Hiroyuki Kaku, Takako Miyoshi, Ryosuke Sato, Yoshikazu Ito, Satoshi Suzuki, Munetaka Kowa
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Patent number: 12201445Abstract: Aspects relate to a portable device that may be used to identify a critical intensity and an anaerobic work capacity of an individual. The device may utilize muscle oxygen sensor data, speed data, or power data. The device may utilize data from multiple exercise sessions, or may utilize data from a single exercise session. The device may additionally estimate a critical intensity from a previous race time input from a user.Type: GrantFiled: May 17, 2023Date of Patent: January 21, 2025Assignee: NIKE, Inc.Inventors: Brett S. Kirby, Bradley W. Wilkins, David Clark, Eric Bradley, Elizabeth Besemer
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Patent number: 12193831Abstract: The present disclosure provides methods and apparatus for evaluating the flow of blood in damaged or healing tissue. The present disclosure also provides methods of identifying a patient at the onset of risk of pressure ulcer or at risk of the onset of pressure ulcer, and treating the patient with anatomy-specific clinical intervention selected based on perfusion or blood oxygenation values, or a combination thereof. The present disclosure also provides methods of stratifying groups of patients based on risk of wound development and methods of reducing incidence of tissue damage in a care facility. The present disclosure also provides methods to analyze trends of perfusion or oxygenation measurements to detect tissue damage before it is visible, and methods to compare bisymmetric perfusion values to identify damaged tissue.Type: GrantFiled: July 7, 2023Date of Patent: January 14, 2025Assignee: BBI Medical Innovations, LLCInventors: Martin F. Burns, Graham O. Ross
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Patent number: 12193839Abstract: A wearable electronic device may include a display and a housing. The housing may include a chassis defining a first portion of a rear exterior surface of the wearable electronic device, a first portion of a side exterior surface of the wearable electronic device, and an internal wall. The housing may also include a glass shell defining a front wall positioned over the display and defining a front exterior surface of the wearable electronic device and a side wall extending from the front wall and overlapping the internal wall, the side wall defining a second portion of the side exterior surface of the wearable electronic device. The wearable electronic device may also include a touch sensing system within the housing and configured to detect a touch input applied to the front exterior surface of the wearable electronic device.Type: GrantFiled: May 7, 2021Date of Patent: January 14, 2025Assignee: APPLE INC.Inventors: Daniel J. Hiemstra, Erik G. de Jong, Sameer Pandya
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Patent number: 12193809Abstract: A physiological signal monitoring device includes a base including a base body that has a bottom plate and an opening, a biosensor mounted to the base, and a transmitter removably mounted to the base body. The base further includes a first coupling structure disposed on a top surface of the bottom plate, and the transmitter includes a second coupling structure coupled to the first coupling structure when the transmitter is mounted to the base body. When the first and second coupling structures are coupled to each other, they are disposed to be distal from a periphery cooperatively defined by the base and the transmitter. They are uncoupled from each other when an external force is applied through the opening of the base body to separate the transmitter from the base.Type: GrantFiled: July 31, 2020Date of Patent: January 14, 2025Assignee: BIONIME CORPORATIONInventors: Chun-Mu Huang, Chieh-Hsing Chen, Chen-Hao Lee
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Patent number: 12197694Abstract: A measurement engine of a wearable electronic device may compensate for wavelength variations of light emitted as part of blood-oxygen saturation measurements. In some cases, determining an estimated blood-oxygen saturation value is based at least partially on temperature data that may be used to compensate for temperature-based wavelength variations of the emitted light, drive current data that may be used to compensate for drive-current-based wavelength variations of the emitted light, and/or calibration information that may be used to compensate for manufacturing variability across different light emitters. In various embodiments, the measurement engine may use temperature data, the drive current data, and/or calibration information in a variety of ways to determine estimated blood-oxygen saturation values, including using lookup tables or calibration curves, applying functions, and the like.Type: GrantFiled: June 28, 2023Date of Patent: January 14, 2025Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventors: Ravi K. Shaga, Paul D. Mannheimer, Theodore Yu
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Patent number: 12193812Abstract: Estimation of a characteristic of a user's physiological signals can be improved using one or more calibration relationships that may be dependent on a characteristic of the optical sensor. For example, different calibration relationships can be used that are dependent on a spatial characteristic and/or that are dependent on a wavelength characteristic of the light emitting component(s) of the respective emitter of a channel. In some examples, a unique calibration relationship can be used for each channel. In some examples, a common calibration relationship can be used for multiple channels with shared distance and/or wavelength characteristics. Utilizing distance-dependent and/or wavelength-dependent calibration relationships can improve robustness of pulse oximetry measurements.Type: GrantFiled: August 25, 2023Date of Patent: January 14, 2025Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventors: Paul D. Mannheimer, Albert E. Cerussi
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Patent number: 12193811Abstract: A device, a substrate including a connection port. The substrate includes traces to enable a circuit of the substrate. The circuit is connected to the connection port. A light sensor mechanically and electrically attached respectfully to a first planar surface of the substrate and the circuit. A light source is mechanically and electrically attached respectively to the first planar surface and the circuit. The light source is located lateral to the light sensor at a first distance. A light signal of the light source emanates from the light source at an angle perpendicular to the first planar surface and a reflector mechanically attached to the first planar surface and located between the light sensor and the light source. The light signal is substantially reflected by the reflector away from the light sensor.Type: GrantFiled: December 21, 2020Date of Patent: January 14, 2025Assignee: BIOBEAT TECHNOLOGIES LTD.Inventors: Arik Ben Ishay, Israel Sarussi, Johanan May, Hassid C. Gurgov
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Patent number: 12193813Abstract: An active-pulse blood analysis system has an optical sensor that illuminates a tissue site with multiple wavelengths of optical radiation and outputs sensor signals responsive to the optical radiation after attenuation by pulsatile blood flow within the tissue site. A monitor communicates with the sensor signals and is responsive to arterial pulses within a first bandwidth and active pulses within a second bandwidth so as to generate arterial pulse ratios and active pulse ratios according to the wavelengths. An arterial calibration curve relates the arterial pulse ratios to a first arterial oxygen saturation value and an active pulse calibration curve relates the active pulse ratios to a second arterial oxygen saturation value. Decision logic outputs one of the first and second arterial oxygen saturation values based upon perfusion and signal quality.Type: GrantFiled: October 27, 2023Date of Patent: January 14, 2025Assignee: Masimo CorporationInventors: Massi Joe E. Kiani, Mathew Paul, Jesse Chen, Marcelo M. Lamego
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Patent number: 12186136Abstract: Systems and methods are disclosed in which changes in the position and/or orientation of an anatomical structure or of a surgical tool can be measured quantitatively during surgery. In some embodiments, the systems and methods disclosed herein can make use of inertial motion sensors to determine a position or orientation of an instrument or anatomy at different times and to calculate changes between different positions or orientations. In other embodiments, such sensors can be utilized in conjunction with imaging devices to correlate sensor position with anatomical landmarks, thereby permitting determination of absolute angular orientation of a landmark. Such systems and methods can facilitate real-time tracking of progress during a variety of procedures, including, e.g., spinal deformity correction, etc.Type: GrantFiled: September 30, 2022Date of Patent: January 7, 2025Assignee: Medos International SàrlInventors: Saurav V. Gupta, Mark Hall, Dennis Chien, Michael J. O'Neil
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Patent number: 12186079Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: December 19, 2022Date of Patent: January 7, 2025Assignee: Masimo CorporationInventors: Ammar Al-Ali, Walter M. Weber, Valery G. Telfort