Patents Examined by Max N Hindenburg
  • Patent number: 9713439
    Abstract: A system and method are provided for targeted training of a person walking on a powered backward moving surface. Kinematic information of motor performance, such as ankle position and velocity, is measured throughout one or more phases of a gait cycle with a detector. The gait phase is determined, and a resistive/assistive force is applied to the leg that differs depending upon the gait phase and the measured kinematic information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 5, 2009
    Date of Patent: July 25, 2017
    Assignee: Rehabilitation Institute of Chicago
    Inventors: Ming Wu, Brian D. Schmit, T. George Hornby
  • Patent number: 9700200
    Abstract: A method, system or computer usable program product for detecting visual interaction factors indicative of visual impairment through normal use of a mobile device including monitoring and recording in memory visual interaction of a user with content presented by the mobile device during normal use of the mobile device in accordance with predetermined parameters; establishing a baseline pattern of visual interaction factors in accordance with the predetermined parameters; utilizing a processor to compare the visual interaction of the user with the baseline factors to determine a set of differences; and responsive to the set of differences exceeding a predetermined threshold, providing a notification of visual impairment.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 16, 2014
    Date of Patent: July 11, 2017
    Assignee: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
    Inventors: Mark B. Stevens, John D. Wilson
  • Patent number: 9653002
    Abstract: A cognitive and/or motor skill testing system and method may include a processor that records respective time information for each of multiple positions of a display device that are traced during administration of a test, that determines speed and/or velocity values based on the recorded time information, and that outputs test result information based on the determined values. The test result information may be based on a comparison between a graphed curve of such values to an ideal curve. The positions may correspond to a path between displayed targets whose size and/or distance therebetween depend on past test performance. The system and/or method may output a change expected with a change to therapy parameters for a patient, where the expected change is determined based on changes which occurred in other patients having similar test results and therapy parameters as those of the patient.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 19, 2010
    Date of Patent: May 16, 2017
    Assignee: The Cleveland Clinic Foundation
    Inventors: Jay L. Alberts, Cameron C. McIntyre