Patents Examined by Matthew Eric Ogles
  • Patent number: 12213794
    Abstract: A method for identifying a subject's response to a sound signal includes using a capture device to capture a baseline bioelectric or vital sign response signal from a portion of a subject's body in an unexcited state for a first time period, directing a first predetermined sound, or a set of predetermined sounds, at the portion of the subject's body for a second time period, using the capture device to capture a responsive bioelectric or vital sign response signal from the portion of the subject's body during the second time period and processing the responsive bioelectric or vital sign response signal to determine a state of the portion of the subject's body or a responsiveness of the subject's body to the predetermined sound, or the set of predetermined sounds directed thereto during the second time period.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 27, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 4, 2025
    Inventor: Bonnie S. Schnitta
  • Patent number: 12201443
    Abstract: According to an embodiment of an aspect, there is provided a computer-implemented method for determining a sleep state of a user. The method comprising receiving (S11) a physiological signal from a physiological signal detector used by the user. The method further comprising determining (S12), based on the received physiological signal, the sleep state of the user. The method further comprising calculating (S13) a reliability value associated with the determination. The reliability value being calculated based on a comparison of the received physiological signal with historic physiological signals of the same sleep state as the determined sleep state. There is further provided a device (20) and computer-readable medium (30). In accordance with the present disclosure, the sleep state of a user may be determined with greater accuracy when compared with past methods.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 13, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 21, 2025
    Assignee: KONINKLIJKE PHILIPS N.V.
    Inventors: Dimitrios Mavroeidis, Ulf Grossekathoefer, Aki Sakari Härmä
  • Patent number: 12171529
    Abstract: Various examples related to mobile bodily monitoring using ultra-wideband radar are provided. In one example, a method for determining a bodily characteristic includes collecting sets of reflected backscatter data for a sequence of ultra-wideband (UWB) pulses transmitted via an UWB sensor, and a corresponding calibration measurement from a calibration channel; determining reflection coefficients for each tissue interface based on the sets of reflected backscatter data; and determining a fluid level content of the lung tissue based upon the reflection coefficients. The reflection coefficients can be determined from reflection profiles based upon the reflected backscatter data for that sequence of UWB pulses and the corresponding calibration measurement. The UWB sensor can include an array of transmit (TX) and receive (RX) antenna pairs positioned on a body of a user. The reflection profile can be associated with a model of tissue layers in the body between the UWB sensor and lung tissue.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 17, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 24, 2024
    Assignee: OHIO STATE INNOVATION FOUNDATION
    Inventors: Emre Ertin, William T. Abraham
  • Patent number: 12167907
    Abstract: Wireless systems and methods are provided for protecting vital organs from blood flow loss, and for physiological monitoring of a subject in various settings. The systems and methods permit the coordinated delivery of various treatment protocols involving inflation or deflation of cuffs to multiple limbs of the subject.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 11, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 17, 2024
    Assignee: SNAP DX INC.
    Inventors: Aravind Ganesh, Ryan Rosentreter, Maliyat Noor, Noam Anglo, Kyle Guild
  • Patent number: 12161446
    Abstract: The present invention provides a sphygmomanometer that can create, before measuring a blood pressure, a state for making a blood pressure measurement accurate. A sphygmomanometer includes a fluid circuit and a control unit. The control unit has a first preparation processing unit, a second preparation processing unit, and a measurement processing unit which operate in a worn state of the sphygmomanometer. The first preparation processing unit operates a pressing cuff to discharge remaining fluid in a sensing cuff to the atmosphere through the fluid circuit. Then, the second preparation processing unit causes the sensing cuff to store a predetermined amount of pressure transmitting fluid received from a pump through the fluid circuit. Subsequently, the measurement processing unit operates the pressing cuff and calculates the blood pressure by the oscillometric method based on pressure of the pressure transmitting fluid stored in the sensing cuff.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 11, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 10, 2024
    Assignees: OMRON HEALTHCARE CO., LTD., OMRON CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yoshihiko Sano, Takanori Nishioka, Takeshi Kubo, Takehiro Hamaguchi, Yasuo Asano
  • Patent number: 12150772
    Abstract: The invention generally concerns methods and devices for determining inadequate lactation in female subject.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 28, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 26, 2024
    Assignee: MYMILK LABORATORIES LTD.
    Inventors: Ravid Shechter Ushpizin, Sharon Haramati
  • Patent number: 12138046
    Abstract: A method is provided which includes receiving first signals indicative of sound in an environment of a recipient. The method further includes receiving second signals indicative of sound perception by the recipient. The method further includes, in response to the first signals and the second signals, determining whether the recipient is experiencing tinnitus. The method further includes, while the recipient is experiencing tinnitus, transmitting stimulation signals to the auditory system of the recipient.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 11, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 12, 2024
    Assignee: Cochlear Limited
    Inventor: Ryan Orin Melman
  • Patent number: 12133724
    Abstract: Monitoring patients utilizing computer vision to analyze patient movements on or near a patient support apparatus such as a bed. Computer vision is employed to analyze video feed of patients to detect movements indicative of clinical parameters. Information generated by the computer vision processor can be recorded to a patient's electronic medical record. Such information can be used to make clinical assessments, diagnoses, or detect critical patient events requiring attention of caregivers. In instances where caregiver assistance is required, an alert can be communicated to one or more caregivers through a caregiver call system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 20, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 5, 2024
    Assignee: Hill-Rom Services, Inc.
    Inventors: Timothy Receveur, Eugene Urrutia
  • Patent number: 12109025
    Abstract: Disclosed herein are systems, methods and devices for predicting whether a user has a target health condition using eye images. Automated guidance is provided to the user to obtain, using a computing device operated by the user, images including the user's sclera, each of the images corresponding to a guided direction of the user's gaze. Images are received from the computing device by way of a network. Images are subject to verification that sufficiently show the user's sclera, including by estimating a direction of the user's gaze and confirming that the estimated direction for a given one of the images conforms with the guided direction. Feature-enhanced image data are generated by applying an autoencoder to enhance features corresponding to the user's sclera in the images. A prediction of whether the user has the target health condition is generated by providing the feature-enhanced image data to a convolutional neural network.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 2, 2023
    Date of Patent: October 8, 2024
    Assignee: AIZTECH CANADA INC.
    Inventors: Mohamed Sheta, Benjamin Fonooni, Sara Leblanc, Lingxiao Qi
  • Patent number: 12070322
    Abstract: The purpose of the present invention is to develop a method or system for measuring the skin condition easily and accurately. The method for determining the skin condition based on the thermal sensitivity in the skin was perfected by discovering that the skin condition, especially the skin barrier function, can be determined based on the thermal sensitivity in the skin.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 28, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 27, 2024
    Assignee: Shiseido Company, Ltd.
    Inventors: Ki Sai, Shigeyoshi Fujiwara, Hirofumi Aoki, Takeshi Hariya
  • Patent number: 12048516
    Abstract: An example medical device system and method includes accelerometer circuitry configured to generate at least one signal, a memory, and processing circuitry coupled to the accelerometer circuitry and the memory. The processing circuitry is configured to determine a first plurality of pulse transit times (PTTs), determine, based on the at least one accelerometer signal, a Sit-to-Stand transition, determine, based on the Sit-to-Stand transition occurring, a second plurality of PTTs after the Sit-to-Stand transition, and determine a likelihood that a person, such as a patient, may fall based on the first plurality of PTTs and the second plurality of PTTs.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 2, 2020
    Date of Patent: July 30, 2024
    Assignee: Medtronic, Inc.
    Inventors: Bruce D. Gunderson, Eduardo N. Warman, Mirko de Melis
  • Patent number: 12036032
    Abstract: A detection device for fusion of tactile sensing and optical tomography includes a handheld probe, a controller for performing signal control and data acquisition on the handheld probe and communicating with a computer, and the computer for performing data analysis and image reconstruction and display on controller information. The handheld probe includes a probe front cover. A tactile sensor, a probe base, and a photoelectric sensor module disposed in sequence are sandwiched between a first probe side cover and a second probe side cover matching the probe front cover. An optical fiber connected to the photoelectric sensor module is interposed between the first probe side cover and the second probe side cover. A detection method based on the detection device comprises detecting tumors inside biological tissue, and detecting physical changes (i.e. local hardness) of the tissue and functional changes (i.e. blood supply distribution) of the tissue.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 28, 2019
    Date of Patent: July 16, 2024
    Assignee: NANJING STARTON TECHNOLOGY CO.LTD.
    Inventor: Weiping Wang
  • Patent number: 12011281
    Abstract: A motor control score is automatically generated for a subject based on electroencephalography (EEG) data represented as a plurality of EEG waveforms obtained from a plurality of EEG electrodes. Each waveform is separated into at least one window, containing a portion of the EEG waveform representative of neural activity corresponding to a movement performed by the subject. At least one or more frequency components and/or signal components are determined from the EEG data in the window, and a motor control score is determined based on these components. The frequency components may correspond to event-related desynchronization (ERD) response frequency band and event-related synchronization (ERS) response frequency band. In other embodiments, the frequency components correspond to a phase response and the signal components correspond to a signal power spectrum density of the window, which are provided to a primary neural network model to determine the motor control score.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 24, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 18, 2024
    Assignee: Health Tech Connex Inc.
    Inventors: Ryan Clarke Newell D'Arcy, Xin Zhang, Carlo Menon, Zachary Frehlick, Pamela Tannouri
  • Patent number: 12011252
    Abstract: In one embodiment, a sensor includes a capsule having a cavity and a sheath, a transducer coupled to electronic circuitry in the cavity, and a clip outside the capsule. The capsule and the clip are configured to hold in vivo an object within an opening between the capsule and the clip. The transducer is configured to detect an incoming signal indicative of a physiological parameter of the object being held, and the electronic circuitry is configured to wirelessly transmit a signal containing information about the physiological parameter obtained from the incoming signal. The sensor is part of a measurement system to measure the physiological parameter. Another embodiment describes a method using the measurement system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 19, 2021
    Date of Patent: June 18, 2024
    Assignee: Teliatry, Inc.
    Inventors: Rahul Saini, Dane William Grasse, Vishnoukumaar Sivaji
  • Patent number: 11986289
    Abstract: Systems, methods, and apparatuses for enabling a plurality of non-invasive, physiological sensors to obtain physiological measurements from the same tissue site. Each of a plurality of sensors can be integrated with or attached to a multi-sensor apparatus. The multi-sensor apparatus can orient the plurality of non-invasive, physiological sensors such that each of the plurality of non-invasive, physiological sensors obtains physiological data from the same or a similar location.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 27, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 21, 2024
    Assignee: Willow Laboratories, Inc.
    Inventors: Cristiano Dalvi, Hung The Vo, Jeroen Poeze, Ferdyan Lesmana, Jesse Chen, Kevin Hughes Pauley, Ruiqi Long, Stephen Leonard Monfre, Sean Merritt, Mohamed K. Diab, Massi Joe E. Kiani
  • Patent number: 11974835
    Abstract: An aspect of the present disclosure describes an apparatus for non-invasive blood pressure monitoring that includes a plurality of pressure sensors, a plurality of sensor interfaces coupling the plurality of pressure sensors to at least one blood flow line disposed exterior from a patient, a pump for artificially generating blood flow through the at least one blood flow line, and a processor configured to receive pressure sensor measurements from the plurality of pressure sensors and generate a patient blood pressure estimation from the combined pressure sensor measurements.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 1, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 7, 2024
    Assignee: iTrend Medical Research Limited
    Inventors: Paul Stewart, Jill Stewart, Maarten Taal, Nicholas Selby, Mohamed Tarek Eldehni, Venkata R Latha Gullapudi
  • Patent number: 11957451
    Abstract: Breath sensor calibration methods and apparatus are described herein where a breath sensor device may generally comprise a sampling unit having a housing configured to receive a sample breath from a user and a sensor positioned within the housing. A processor in electrical communication with the sensor may be configured to determine a dissipation time when the sensor is exposed to a near-constant concentration level of CO detected from the breath sample down to an ambient level of CO detected. The processor may also be configured to calculate a time constant based on the dissipation time and a reduction from the near-constant concentration level to the ambient level. Furthermore, the processor may also be configured to apply the time constant to a transient response of the sensor to account for drift in calibrating the sensor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 23, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 16, 2024
    Assignee: Pivot Health Technologies Inc.
    Inventors: Allen Jameson, Brian Herold, Eric Tridas
  • Patent number: 11950895
    Abstract: In an embodiment, a method includes: generating a displacement signal indicative of a distension of a surface of a skin; determining a temperature of the skin using a temperature sensor; during a calibration time interval, collecting a plurality of distension values from the displacement signal, the plurality of distension values associated with a respective plurality of temperature values determined using the temperature sensor, the plurality of temperature values being indicative of a temperature change of the skin; determining compensation coefficients associated with the plurality of temperature values; and after the calibration time interval, collecting a first distension value from the displacement signal, determining a first temperature value using the temperature sensor, and determining a blood pressure based on the first distension value, the first temperature value, and the determined compensation coefficients.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 28, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 9, 2024
    Assignee: Infineon Technologies AG
    Inventors: Richard S. Sweet, Jr., Adrian Mikolajczak
  • Patent number: 11950887
    Abstract: Some implementations of the disclosure describe a blood pressure measurement apparatus and method that enable continuous, non-invasive blood pressure measurement using sound and ultrasound transducers. In one implementation, a blood pressure measurement device includes: a first transducer configured to emit multiple soundwaves having multiple frequencies, the soundwaves configured to cause a blood vessel of a subject to vibrate; a second transducer configured to capture one or more ultrasound images of the blood vessel; and a processing device configured to: determine, based on the one or more ultrasound images, a wall thickness, a radius, and a resonant frequency of the blood vessel; and calculate, based on the wall thickness, the radius, and the resonant frequency, a blood pressure of the subject.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 14, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 9, 2024
    Assignee: California Institute of Technology
    Inventors: Aditya Rajagopal, Dominic Yurk, Yaser Abu-Mostafa, Alaina Ann Brinley Rajagopal
  • Patent number: 11950888
    Abstract: A pulse diagnostic device and a system of pulse diagnosis are provided. The pulse diagnostic device includes a cuff and a main monitor. The cuff includes a tube and an air bag arranged with an air path interface. A gas medium is received in the air bag. The tube is connected to the air path interface. The main monitor includes a pressure sensor and a controller. The tube extends to reach the main monitor and is connected to the pressure sensor, and the pressure sensor further connects to the controller. When the pulse diagnostic device is working, the cuff contacts an artery, the pressure sensor senses a pressure of the gas medium in the tube. The pressure sensor transmits the pressure of the gas medium to the controller. The controller obtains the pulse information and the blood pressure information based on the pressure of the gas medium.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 16, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 9, 2024
    Assignee: SHENZHEN TATFOOK WISDOM HEALTH TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yu Luo, Tiecai Li, Xianrui Liang, Tong Zhang, Jianhao Liu, Libao Zhang, Yating Li