Patents Examined by Jessandra Hough
  • Patent number: 10376356
    Abstract: An optical beam scanning system for incising target tissue in a patient's eye includes a laser source configured to deliver a laser beam to produce optical breakdown and initiate a plasma-mediated process; an OCT imaging device used to create an image of eye tissue that includes the cornea; a delivery system for delivering the laser beam to the target tissue to form a cataract incision; a scanner operable to scan the focal spot of the laser beam to different locations within the patient's eye; and a controller operatively coupled to the laser source, the imaging device, and the scanner. The OCT device is configured to scan the eye tissue to generate imaging data used to define an incision pattern configured to incise one or more relaxation incisions into the cornea, so that the one or more relaxation incisions are formed starting from the inside and proceeding outward.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 25, 2015
    Date of Patent: August 13, 2019
    Assignee: Optimedica Corporation
    Inventors: William Culbertson, David Angeley, George Marcellino, Dan E. Andersen
  • Patent number: 10165954
    Abstract: An integrated sensor module includes one or more packaged light source semiconductor devices and one or more packaged light detector semiconductor devices mounted to a top surface of a substrate. A pre-molded cover structure includes a portion molded from an opaque molding compound and a further portion molded from a light transmissive molding compound. For each of the packaged light source and light detector semiconductor devices, the pre-molded cover structure includes a pre-molded cavity covered by a window formed of the light transmissive molding compound. The pre-molded cover structure is attached to the substrate such that each of the packaged light source and light detector semiconductor devices fits within a respective cavity, and such that a barrier formed of the opaque molding compound is positioned between each packaged light source semiconductor device and light detector semiconductor device. The module can also include additional sensors and/or electrodes for use by sensors.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 18, 2015
    Date of Patent: January 1, 2019
    Assignee: SALUTRON INC.
    Inventor: Yong Jin Lee
  • Patent number: 10149984
    Abstract: The system for treating a region of the epidermis, comprising: —at least one laser energy source; —a time control device to generate a laser beam; —a laser energy focusing system arranged and produced to direct a laser beam on said region of the epidermis. The control device generates a laser beam comprising a plurality of composite pulses, emitted at a base frequency, each composite pulse comprising a sequence of sub-pulses at a higher frequency than said base frequency.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 9, 2012
    Date of Patent: December 11, 2018
    Assignee: EL.EN. S.P.A.
    Inventors: Stefano Modi, Maurizio Scortecci, Damiano Fortuna, Tiziano Zingoni, Leonardo Masotti, Gabriele Clementi, Nicola Zerbinati
  • Patent number: 9984214
    Abstract: A method of aggregating medical information can include receiving, at a remote aggregation system, individual syndromes collected by mobile personal medical devices associated with respective bodies as the mobile personal medical devices move within an environment, aggregating the individual syndromes at the remote aggregation system, and determining whether an environmental syndrome exists for at least some of the individual syndromes. Related systems and computer program products are also disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 7, 2014
    Date of Patent: May 29, 2018
    Assignee: AT&T Intellectual Property I, LP
    Inventors: Ari Craine, Jonathan Reeves, Steven Tischer
  • Patent number: 9833201
    Abstract: The present invention is directed to a system for monitoring a physiological parameter of a cyclist, and methods of using the system. The system comprises a garment, a sensor, and a signal processor. The garment is configured to be worn by the cyclist. The sensor is fixedly coupled to the garment and configured to measure a signal representative of the physiological parameter during pedaling. The signal processor is operatively coupled to the sensor and configured to determine a diagnosis based on the measured signal. An alert is generated in response to the diagnosis substantially in real time.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 14, 2014
    Date of Patent: December 5, 2017
    Assignee: THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS
    Inventors: Craig Niederberger, Peter Pfanner, James Hotaling, Matthew Clark, Andrew Graham, Michael Paradise, Michael Scott
  • Patent number: 9827440
    Abstract: Lighting systems, methods, and devices for protecting human circadian neuroendocrine function during night use are described. Suitable lighting conditions can be provided for a working environment while protecting the circadian neuroendocrine systems of those occupying the illuminated workplace during the night. Lighting systems, methods, and devices can provide substantive attenuation of the pathologic circadian disruption in night workers. Lighting systems, methods, and devices can attenuate the specific bands of light implicated in circadian disruption. LED lighting systems, methods, and devices can provide increased intensity at a different portion of the spectrum than conventional LEDs, providing a useable white light even when unfavorable portions of the wavelength are attenuated by a notch filter.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 5, 2015
    Date of Patent: November 28, 2017
    Assignee: CIRCADIAN ZIRCLIGHT INC.
    Inventors: Martin Christopher Moore-Ede, Rebecca Mary Chacko, Anneke Marlies Heitmann, Robert Frederic Casper, Robert Frank Karlicek, Jr., Doros Platika, Udo Trutschel