Patents Examined by Joseph M Dietrich
  • Patent number: 12156709
    Abstract: A robotic electromechanical surgical instrument includes a housing, an elongated shaft that extends distally from the housing, a wrist assembly supported on the elongated shaft, an end effector coupled to the wrist assembly, cables coupled to the wrist assembly, and an electrical cable coupled to the end effector. The wrist assembly includes a first joint coupled to a second joint. The first joint includes a proximal segment defining an arcuate surface and a distal segment defining an arcuate surface. The electrical cable is positioned relative to the proximal arcuate surface and the distal arcuate surface such that during articulation of the wrist assembly the electrical cable rolls off of the distal arcuate surface as the electrical cable rolls on to the proximal arcuate surface and the electrical cable rolls off of the proximal arcuate surface as the electrical cable rolls on to the distal arcuate surface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 10, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 3, 2024
    Assignee: Covidien LP
    Inventor: Zachary Traina
  • Patent number: 12151117
    Abstract: Technologies and implementations for a wearable healthcare system, which may detect and determine moisture level at a contact interface between an electrode and a skin of a person. The wearable healthcare system may be a wearable cardioverter defibrillator (WCD) having a moisture sensor at the electrode. The WCD may include moisture providing systems to add moisture material to the contact interface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 30, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 26, 2024
    Assignee: West Affum Holdings DAC
    Inventors: Pamela F. Breske, Zoie R. Engman
  • Patent number: 12144650
    Abstract: A catheter (20), which can be part of an intravascular blood pump, possesses a kink sensor which extends over the total length of the catheter and comprises an optical fiber (28A). The optical fiber is attached to an evaluation device (100) which evaluates a preset light quantity transmitted through the optical fiber as to whether a part of the light quantity is coupled out of the optical fiber along the length of the optical fiber. This is interpreted as a kink event and displayed. The optical fiber preferably utilized for the kink sensor is the optical fiber of an optical pressure sensor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 22, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 19, 2024
    Assignee: Abiomed Europe GmbH
    Inventors: Gerd Spanier, Thorsten Siess
  • Patent number: 12144992
    Abstract: A system includes one or more memory devices having instructions stored thereon that, when executed by one or more processors, cause the one or more processors to perform operations including calculating a depression detection value based in part on a first depression-indicative value based on a first body parameter value, a second depression-indicative value based on a second body parameter value, and a weighting applied to at least one of the first depression-indicative value and the second depression-indicative value, comparing the depression detection value to a first threshold and a second threshold that is different from the first threshold to detect an onset of a depression episode, and initiating neurostimulation therapy by one or more electrodes responsive to detecting the onset of the depression episode.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 28, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 19, 2024
    Assignee: LivaNova USA, Inc.
    Inventor: Wangcai Liao
  • Patent number: 12144581
    Abstract: The present invention provides for a data acquisition system for sleep diagnostics, and method of using such system. The wireless sleep diagnostic data acquisition system can be used for remote testing, and provides for an easy and seamless transfer of testing data through cellular systems from a portable, wearable patient interface box to a computer and/or monitor to allow the patients physician to review and analyze the sleep data at one or more sites remote from where the patient was tested.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 15, 2023
    Date of Patent: November 19, 2024
    Inventors: Hani Kayyali, Craig A Frederick, Daniel Bishop, Robert N Schmidt, Brian M Kolkowski
  • Patent number: 12133989
    Abstract: A medical device housing having a reduced footprint is described. The medical device housing includes a flange coupled to a first portion of the housing and a second portion of the housing that is configured to be coupled to the flange to substantially enclose an electronic component(s) within an interior of the medical device housing. The first portion of the housing includes a support(s) that supports the flange within the first portion. In some examples, a trench is formed between an interior wall of the first portion of the housing and the flange. An adhesive is deposited within the trench to bond the flange to the first portion of the housing. The second portion of the housing is configured to decouple from the flange to allow access to the interior of the medical device housing, such as for maintenance or repairs.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 29, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 5, 2024
    Assignee: Physio-Control, Inc.
    Inventors: Cathlene Buchanan, Chris Egbert, Barry D. Curtin, David Wesche, Ken Dickenson
  • Patent number: 12127678
    Abstract: A sensing unit is configured to generate pressure readings from a phenomena within a sleep environment and to generate temperature readings from a sensed temperature. A processing unit is configured to select a thermoregulation adjustment and to alter a thermal property of a sleep environment based on the selected thermoregulation adjustment.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 13, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 29, 2024
    Assignee: Sleep Number Corporation
    Inventors: Omid Sayadi, Farzad Siyahjani
  • Patent number: 12128248
    Abstract: An optical probe includes a light source configured to generate an optical signal, a plurality of waveguides configured to guide the optical signal to a target, a plurality of electrodes configured to record an electrical signal generated by the target, and a modulator configured to transmit the optical signal of the light source to at least one target waveguide from among the plurality of waveguides.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 6, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 29, 2024
    Assignee: Ewha University—Industry Collaboration Foundation
    Inventors: Chang-Hyeon Ji, Sang Beom Jun
  • Patent number: 12128249
    Abstract: The embodiment discloses a rhinitis treatment device including a frame covering a nose; a substrate disposed inside the frame; and a plurality of light emitting devices disposed on the substrate, wherein the substrate includes: a pair of first regions spaced apart from each other in a first direction to face both sides of the nose; and a second region disposed between the pair of first regions and extending in a second direction from a tip of the nose toward a root of the nose, and wherein the plurality of light emitting devices includes a plurality of first light emitting devices disposed in the pair of first regions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 5, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 29, 2024
    Assignee: Peach Tech
    Inventor: Hae Sung Park
  • Patent number: 12121744
    Abstract: A therapeutic light assembly used for reducing a patient's viral load including a housing containing at least one therapeutic light source configured to emit light at air exiting the patient's airway, a power source coupled to the at least therapeutic light source, and a tubing attachment coupled to the housing configured to secure the housing to a patient's tubing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 18, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 22, 2024
    Assignee: Pathy Medical, LLC
    Inventors: Mikiya Silver, Gennady Kleyman, Vinod V. Pathy
  • Patent number: 12121329
    Abstract: In one example, a wearable vital sign monitor (WVSM) system comprises a support structure configured to be worn by a patient, a plurality of patient physiological sensors configured to be coupled to the patient when the patient is wearing the support structure, each patient physiological sensor configured to output a respective patient physiological signal, a memory, and, a processor communicatively coupled to the plurality of patient physiological sensors and configured to store in the memory measurements of patient physiological signals taken at selected times based on a categorization of the patient physiological signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 2, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 22, 2024
    Assignee: West Affum Holdings DAC
    Inventor: Zoie R. Engman
  • Patent number: 12114838
    Abstract: Certain aspects relate to manually and robotically controllable medical instruments. A manually and robotically controllable medical instrument can include an elongated shaft articulable by pull wires. The elongated shaft can be connected to an instrument handle that attaches to an instrument drive mechanism. The instrument handle can include a pulley assembly on which the pull wires can be mounted. Rotation of the pulley assembly can actuate the pull wires to cause articulation of the elongated shaft. The medical instrument also includes a manual drive input connected to the pulley assembly such that manual actuation of the manual drive input causes rotation of the first pulley assembly and a robotic drive input configured to engage with a robotic drive output of the instrument drive mechanism such that rotation of the first robotic drive output causes rotation of the pulley assembly.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 4, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 15, 2024
    Assignee: Auris Health, Inc.
    Inventor: Luis Andrade Baez, Jr.
  • Patent number: 12115371
    Abstract: A system and method for determining the location of an implant such as a cochlear implant relative to a structure of interest such as a tissue wall. The implant has an electrode array including a first electrode and a second electrode. The electrode array is insertable into an electrically-conductive volume relative to the inner wall of the scala tympani of the cochlea. A pulse generator generates a biphasic, constant-current pulse on the first and second electrodes. A controller measures the differential voltage across the pair of electrodes during the current pulse. The controller determines the proximity between the inner wall and the segment of the electrode array between the first and second electrodes based on the differential voltage between the first and second electrodes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 17, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 15, 2024
    Assignee: Vanderbilt University
    Inventors: Trevor L. Bruns, Robert J. Webster
  • Patent number: 12115384
    Abstract: An illumination device includes a light source and a deformable light guide optically coupled to the light source. The deformable light guide is configured to conform to a surface of tissue when in contact with the tissue such that light from the light source is coupled directly from the deformable light guide to the tissue. By using a deformable light guide, more light can be delivered to a target tissue. This may increase treatment efficacy, reduce treatment time, or both.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 15, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 15, 2024
    Assignee: KNOW Bio, LLC
    Inventor: Antony Paul van de Ven
  • Patent number: 12109414
    Abstract: A fitting arrangement is described for fitting electrode contacts of cochlear implant electrode array implanted in a cochlea of an implanted patient. This involves iteratively fitting multiple fitting electrode contacts by for each of the fitting electrode contacts: i. delivering fitting stimulation signals to the fitting electrode contact and at least one neighboring electrode contact to stimulate adjacent auditory neural tissue, wherein the fitting stimulation signals are characterized by a charge level distribution function having a non-zero noise level charge at the at least one neighboring electrode contact and a response level charge much greater than the noise level charge at the fitting electrode contact, and ii. obtaining patient responses from the implanted patient to the fitting stimulation signals. A patient-specific fit map is then defined for the electrode contacts of cochlear implant electrode array based on the patient responses.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 17, 2023
    Date of Patent: October 8, 2024
    Assignee: MED-EL ELEKTROMEDIZINISCHE GERAETE GMBH
    Inventors: Richard Penninger, Sascha Fuchs
  • Patent number: 12102822
    Abstract: Some embodiments of an electrical stimulation system employ wireless electrode assemblies to provide pacing therapy, defibrillation therapy, or other stimulation therapy. In certain embodiments, the wireless electrode assemblies may include a guide wire channel so that each electrode assembly can be advanced over a guide wire instrument through the endocardium. For example, a distal tip portion of a guide wire instrument can penetrate through the endocardium and into the myocardial wall of a heart chamber, and the electrode assembly may then be advanced over the guide wire and into the heart chamber wall. In such circumstances, the guide wire instrument (and other portions of the delivery system) can be retracted from the heart chamber wall, thereby leaving the electrode assembly embedded in the heart tissue.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 26, 2022
    Date of Patent: October 1, 2024
    Inventors: Graig L. Kveen, Douglas R. Saholt, Roger N. Hastings, Richard C. Gunderson
  • Patent number: 12102823
    Abstract: Delivery of implantable active agent delivery components includes implanting a distal lead end of a lead into tissue at an implantation site. A delivery stylet is then inserted through a lead lumen of the lead. The delivery stylet includes a stylet body having a distal stylet end and an active agent delivery component detachably coupled to the distal stylet end. The active agent delivery component is inserted into the tissue at the implantation site by extending the distal stylet end of the delivery stylet from a distal lead end of the lead such that the active agent delivery component is inserted into the tissue at the implantation site. The active agent delivery component is then detached within the tissue at the implantation site and the delivery stylet may be retracted and removed from the lead lumen.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 15, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 1, 2024
    Assignee: Pacesetter, Inc.
    Inventor: Christopher Jenney
  • Patent number: 12097366
    Abstract: An apparatus for performing bioelectric stimulation, the apparatus comprising: a stimulation unit; a measurement unit comprising an amplifier; first and second stimulation electrodes operable to apply electrical signals to tissue of a patient; first and second measurement electrodes operable to receive first and second measurement signals from the tissue of the patient; wherein the stimulation unit is configured to deliver a first stimulation signal to the first stimulation electrode and a second stimulation signal to the second stimulation electrode; wherein the first signal and the second signal are mirrored about a biasing voltage, the biasing voltage set in dependence of the dynamic range of the amplifier.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 25, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 24, 2024
    Assignee: MONASH UNIVERSITY
    Inventors: Richard H. Thomson, Paul B. Fitzgerald, Caley Sullivan, Mark Harrison
  • Patent number: 12089809
    Abstract: A surgical instrument manipulator comprises a manipulator arm and an instrument mounting structure rotatably mounted to the manipulator arm. The instrument mounting structure comprises: an attachment interface configured to removably couple to a surgical instrument; and a passage within the instrument mounting structure. When the surgical instrument is coupled to the attachment interface, the surgical instrument is fixed to the instrument mounting structure. An elongate body of the surgical instrument extends through the passage when the surgical instrument is coupled to the attachment interface. The instrument mounting structure is rotatable relative to the manipulator arm, and when the surgical instrument is coupled to the attachment interface, rotation of the instrument mounting structure with respect to the manipulator arm causes rotation of the surgical instrument.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 18, 2023
    Date of Patent: September 17, 2024
    Assignee: INTUITIVE SURGICAL OPERATIONS, INC.
    Inventors: David Q. Larkin, Thomas G. Cooper, Catherine J. Mohr, David J. Rosa
  • Patent number: 12083286
    Abstract: A system for generating a Ganzfeld effect includes a flat light emitting diode (LED) panel emitting strobing light, and a controller for controlling the LED panel strobing light. The controller controls a strobing rate of the emitted strobing light so that the strobing light triggers a Ganzfeld effect to a user standing in front of the flat LED panel. The strobing light is generated by switching on/off a single color light, or by switching between different colors with an off period between alternating colors or without an off period between alternating colors.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 18, 2021
    Date of Patent: September 10, 2024
    Inventor: Brian Neltner