Patents Examined by Mehdi Poursoltani
  • Patent number: 11723552
    Abstract: An apparatus for determining a position of an object inside a body includes a first, detector configured to receive a signal from the object inside the body. The apparatus also includes a camera configured to capture an image or video of outside of a portion of the body, The object is positioned inside the portion of the body. A computing system is configured to receive the signal from the first detector and the image or video from the camera and to determine the position of the object Inside the body. A screen, is configured to display die position of the object inside the body.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 7, 2017
    Date of Patent: August 15, 2023
    Inventors: Sang M. Han, Jarred Caldwell, Nicholas Brechtel, Nathan Madrid, Divya Prakash
  • Patent number: 11607145
    Abstract: A dialysis access site monitoring system may generate a treatment recommendation for treating a condition of an access site based on a video of the access site. The dialysis access site monitoring system may include an apparatus having a processor and a memory coupled to the processor. The memory may include instructions that, when executed by the processor, may cause the processor to generate video information based on a video of a dialysis access site of a patient, determine change in the number of pixels (CNP) information of the video information, the CNP information associated with movement of a skin surface of the patient due to blood flow through the dialysis access site, determine frequency domain information of the CNP information, determine a maximum-to-median power (M2) value of the frequency domain information, and determine at least one access site characteristic based on the M2 value.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 8, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 21, 2023
    Assignee: FRESENIUS MEDICAL CARE HOLDINGS, INC.
    Inventors: Fansan Zhu, Peter Kotanko