Patents Examined by Patrick Fernandes
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Patent number: 11687163Abstract: A Head Mounted Display (HMD) device includes a display configured to display an augmented reality effect in relation to an Electromyography (EMG) device. The HMD device also includes at least one processor configured to control the display of the augmented reality effect in relation to the EMG device according to a user motion detected by the EMG device. The HMD device may further include a communication unit configured to communicate with the EMG device, and the at least one processor may be configured to receive, from the EMG device via the communication unit, information about data stored on the EMG device. At least some of the received information may be displayed in relation to the EMG device as the augmented reality effect. Information sent from the EMG device to a mobile terminal may be displayed in relation to the EMG device as the augmented reality effect.Type: GrantFiled: February 10, 2020Date of Patent: June 27, 2023Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.Inventors: William Stryker Clausen, Ashish Verma
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Patent number: 11684349Abstract: The present disclosure provides a female reproductive system sample collector, including a sampling device and an elution preservation device, where the elution preservation device is filled with an elution preservation solution, after sampling is completed, the sampling device is submerged in the elution preservation solution of the elution preservation device and sealed for preservation; the sampling device includes a sampling rod and a sheath; the sampling rod includes an operating rod, a straight rod brush and a ball head brush, an opening and closing cover corresponding to the ball head is disposed at a front end of the sheath, and the opening and closing cover includes four oscillating rods that are hinged with a front port of the sheath and the oscillating rods are connected through thin films. The present disclosure can collect cells or nucleic acids of uterus and ovaries in a uterine cavity, a sampling rod can deform in a shape along an outline of the uterine cavity.Type: GrantFiled: February 10, 2023Date of Patent: June 27, 2023Inventors: Yanhua Xie, Yinguang Gao, Mitchell Brown
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Patent number: 11684314Abstract: The present disclosure generally provides oral inserts useful for determining forces experienced by a user, such as a human user, to the head, for example, by measuring one or more of acceleration, velocity, displacement, or rotation. In some aspects, the disclosure provides oral inserts that, when worn properly by a human user, calculate the forces experienced by the user's head with high accuracy. In some aspects, the disclosure provides systems for detecting and calculating forces experienced by the user's head and to determine whether such forces are above a certain threshold indicative of increased concussion risk. In some aspects, the disclosure provides methods for calculating forces experienced by the user's head and determining whether such forces are above a certain threshold indicative of concussion.Type: GrantFiled: March 23, 2018Date of Patent: June 27, 2023Assignee: Ocellus, LLCInventors: Joel Douglas Stitzel, Jr., Michael Hurst, Jillian Urban Hobson
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Patent number: 11684288Abstract: Disclosed herein is a gait analysis apparatus that is configured to provide multidimensional measures of the gait of an individual as the individual traverses the gait analysis apparatus. The gait analysis apparatus may be configured to provide a gait measuring processing device with the multidimensional measurements. Based on the multidimensional measurements, the gait measuring process device may, for example, diagnose the test subject with lameness or particular neuromuscular dysfunctions (NM) disease and/or injury, monitor progression of lameness or a particular NM disease and/or injury over time, determine a static weight as the test subject is traversing, monitor the static weight of the test subject over an extended period time, and/or determine which measurements may be used as biomarkers to identify lameness or the particular NM disease and/or injury. A system including a gait analysis apparatus is also disclosed.Type: GrantFiled: July 6, 2022Date of Patent: June 27, 2023Assignee: STEP ANALYSIS LLCInventors: Uri Tasch, Jason Dunthorn
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Patent number: 11678936Abstract: A data processing method performed by a computer for judging implant orientation data representing an orientation of a first implant part relative to a first bone, the first implant part being part of an implant pair which further comprises a second implant part for a second bone, the implant pair being envisaged to be implanted in a patient, comprising the steps of: —acquiring the implant orientation data, -acquiring second implant orientation data representing the orientation of the second implant part relative to the second bone, -acquiring implant shape data representing the shapes of the first and second implant parts, —acquiring activity data representing at least one desired activity of the patient to be possible after implanting the implant, wherein each desired activity has an associated range of motion between the first bone and the second bone, —calculating a range of motion volume, which represents possible orientations between the first bone and the second bone over three rotational axes, from thType: GrantFiled: March 31, 2020Date of Patent: June 20, 2023Assignees: Smith & Nephew, Inc., Smith & Nephew Orthopaedics AG, Smith & Nephew Asia Pacific Pte. LimitedInventors: Lars Dohmen, Mario Schubert, Anna Wiedenmann
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Patent number: 11678843Abstract: An apparatus for monitoring for accumulation of lung fluid comprises a feeding tube having first electrode(s) positioned thereon for electrical contact with tissue of an esophagus of a target patient including a lower esophageal sphincter (LES) and/or tissue in proximity to the LES, second electrode(s) sized and shaped for contacting skin of the target patient, and a non-transitory memory having stored thereon code instructions for applying alternating current(s) to pair(s) of first and second electrodes, measuring a voltage over the pair(s), and computing an estimate of a change of lung fluid relative to a baseline in lung(s) of the target patient according to the applied alternating current and measured voltage, wherein the applying, the measuring, and the computing the estimate of the change in lung fluid are iteratively executed for monitoring the target patient for accumulation of lung fluid while the feeding tube is in use.Type: GrantFiled: November 12, 2020Date of Patent: June 20, 2023Assignee: ART MEDICAL Ltd.Inventors: Liron Elia, Gavriel J. Iddan
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Patent number: 11672467Abstract: A method and user device for determining a unified Parkinson's disease rating scale (UPDRS) value associated with a user of the user device include obtaining video data associated with a movement of a body part of the user. The UPDRS value is determined using a model and the video data associated with the movement of the body part of the user. The UPDRS value is provided to permit an evaluation of the user based on the UPDRS value.Type: GrantFiled: May 6, 2022Date of Patent: June 13, 2023Assignee: TENCENT AMERICA LLCInventors: Lianyi Han, Hui Tang, Yusheng Xie, Shih-Yao Lin, Qian Zhen, Zhimin Huo, Wei Fan
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Patent number: 11672427Abstract: Systems, methods, and computer program products are disclosed that can receive temperature data from at least one temperature sensor over a period of time. At least one metric of the temperature data can be calculated, which may utilize the temperature data from a particular sensor over the period of time and may be indicative of variability in the temperature data. A tissue assessment can be determined by utilizing a classifier with at least one feature input to the classifier, the feature(s) being determined from the metric(s).Type: GrantFiled: July 31, 2019Date of Patent: June 13, 2023Assignee: CYRCADIA ASIA, LTD.Inventors: Vinitha Sree Subbhuraam, Robert James Royea
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Patent number: 11666214Abstract: Methods and systems for measuring the intraocular pressure of an eye in a human. The methods include directing an acoustic incident wave at the surface of the eye to generate a reflected wave, measuring the coefficient of reflection of the incident and reflected waves, and determining the intraocular pressure of the eye from the coefficient of reflection. Also disclosed are methods of diagnosing glaucoma and/or intraocular hypertension.Type: GrantFiled: September 15, 2021Date of Patent: June 6, 2023Assignees: KHALIFA UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY, THE UNIVERSITY OF BIRMINGHAMInventors: Haider Butt, Khamis Essa, Matt Soanes, Nader Vahdati
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Patent number: 11666249Abstract: An automated method for cognitive training of the brain of a human using contralateral movement is provided wherein the body of the human is defined, in part, by having contralateral sides and the human body has a plurality of motion tracking sensors attached to respective limbs of the human body.Type: GrantFiled: August 19, 2022Date of Patent: June 6, 2023Assignee: HUMAN PERFORMANCE INC.Inventor: Timothy Todd Dunn
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Patent number: 11660080Abstract: A biopsy gun having a cannula and a stylet guided in the cannula comprises the following a housing, a cannula carriage for moving the cannula, a stylet carriage for moving the stylet, a tensioning grip for tensioning the cannula carriage and the stylet carriage from an initial position into a tensioning position, and an engaging member that is provided on the tensioning grip and has recesses adapted to engage with corresponding projections of the cannula carriage and the stylet carriage. The engaging member is rotatably attached to the tensioning grip and is biased by a spring against a contact surface of the housing.Type: GrantFiled: September 15, 2017Date of Patent: May 30, 2023Assignee: PETER PFLUGBEIL GMBHInventor: Florian Kneissl
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Patent number: 11660033Abstract: A data transmission system for transmitting an electrical data to a nerve cell. A data receiving system for receiving an electrical data from a nerve cell has at least two phototransistor crystals that is stimulated by light to form an electrical signal; an image source that allows the light to be sent to the phototransistor crystals and allows controlling the amount of light transmitted to each phototransistor crystal independently of each other, and at least one control unit that is connected to the image source that controls the amount of light transmitted from the image source to each of the phototransistor crystals.Type: GrantFiled: April 17, 2017Date of Patent: May 30, 2023Inventor: Utku Buyuksahin
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Patent number: 11660032Abstract: An oxygen-sensing assembly for attachment to a urinary catheter may include a housing having a flow pathway extending between an inlet end and an outlet end thereof, an oxygen sensor in operable communication with the flow pathway of the housing, the oxygen sensor configured to detect oxygen levels of a fluid flowing through the flow pathway and a flowrate sensor configured to detect a flowrate of the fluid flowing through the flow pathway. A risk of acute kidney injury may be determined based on the mass flowrate of oxygen through the flow pathway, determined based on the detected oxygen levels and the flowrate of the fluid through the flow pathway. Related catheter assemblies and methods are also disclosed.Type: GrantFiled: March 6, 2020Date of Patent: May 30, 2023Assignees: SWSA Medical Ventures, LLC, University of Utah Research FoundationInventors: Natalie A. Silverton, Kai Kuck, Bradley J. Stringer, Spencer B. Shumway, Lars Lofgren
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Patent number: 11660040Abstract: A processing subsystem generates perceived images from information bearing nerve impulses that are transmitted from a subject's eye(s) to a visual processing region of the subject's brain along one or more nerves in response to the subject viewing a real-world scene. The processing subsystem generates display images based on the perceived images, and controls a display device to display the display images to the subject. In certain embodiments, the processing subsystem generates the display images by manipulating or modifying the perceived images to include virtual images, and provides a type of virtual pointing on the display images that is used to invoke one or more actions.Type: GrantFiled: October 19, 2022Date of Patent: May 30, 2023Inventor: Moshe Ofer
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Patent number: 11647919Abstract: Active auscultation may be used to determine organ (e.g., lung or heart) characteristics of users. An acoustic or piezo-electric signal (e.g., a pulse, a tone, and/or a broadband pulse) may be projected into an animal (typically human) body or thorax. The signal interacts with the body, or lungs, and in some cases may induce resonance within the body/lungs. A resultant signal may be emitted from the body which may be analyzed to determine, for example, a lung's resonant frequency or frequencies and/or how the sound is otherwise absorbed, reflected, or modified by the body. This information may be indicative of lung characteristics such as lung capacity, a volume of air trapped in the lungs, and/or the presence of COPD.Type: GrantFiled: September 29, 2022Date of Patent: May 16, 2023Assignee: SAMAY, INC.Inventor: Maria Artunduaga
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Patent number: 11642046Abstract: This disclosure relates generally to a system and method for shoulder proprioceptive analysis of the person. The present disclosure monitors the shoulder joint motion by quantitative measure of range of motion (ROM) and kinesthesia of shoulder using a smart watch, thereby assessing the limit of active motion and the ability to passively reposition the arm in space. The present disclosure estimates the ROM, velocity, quality of joint movement, direction of hand movement using the sensor data captured by the smart watch. Further, the present disclosure provides a performance metrics of the shoulder function by comparing the shoulder motion before and after a prosthesis procedure. The present disclosure implements a rule engine-based approach classifying the shoulder/arm movement which includes flexion, extension, abduction, and adduction, internal and external rotation.Type: GrantFiled: October 16, 2020Date of Patent: May 9, 2023Assignee: Tata Consultancy Services LimitedInventors: Srinivasan Jayaraman, Murali Poduval, Joshin Sahadevan, Harshad Chandrakant Kulkarni
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Patent number: 11638545Abstract: Embodiments of the invention provide optimized sputtered metallic surfaces adapted for use with implantable medical devices as well as methods for making and using such polymeric surfaces. These sputtered metallic surfaces have features that function to inhibit or avoid an inflammatory immune response generated by implantable medical devices. Typical embodiments of the invention include an implantable glucose sensor used in the management of diabetes having a sputtered metallic surface adapted to contact an in vivo environment.Type: GrantFiled: October 16, 2019Date of Patent: May 2, 2023Assignee: MEDTRONIC MINIMED, INC.Inventors: Akhil Srinivasan, Tyler Wong, Inthirai Somasuntharam
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Patent number: 11631498Abstract: In an aspect a system for osteoporosis monitoring is presented. A system includes a computing device. A computing device is configured to measure osseous tissue data of a user through an osseous measurement device. A computing device is configured to determine a current osteoporosis state of a user as a function of measured osseous tissue data of a user. A computing device is configured to predict an advancement of a current state of osteoporosis of a user. A computing device is configured to generate an osteoporosis recovery program for the user. A computing device is configured to display an osteoporosis recovery program to a user. A computing device is configured to receive, through a remote computing device, physiological data of a user. A computing device is configured to update an osteoporosis recovery program.Type: GrantFiled: September 17, 2021Date of Patent: April 18, 2023Inventor: Taher Mahmud
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Patent number: 11622731Abstract: The present invention provides a method and system for processing data from an event, such as a neurological event. When a neurological event occurs, a spike in a neural waveform is generated. The spike can be detected and used to determine information about the neurological event. The method uses data values from a resistive switching component capable of undergoing a resistive state change when a voltage is applied to it. The data values represent a sequence of resistive state changes of the resistive switching component which correspond to the neurological event. The method further comprises processing the received data values to identify a resistive state change corresponding to the neurological event and to obtain information about the neurological event. Thus, a method and system for processing neural spikes is provided.Type: GrantFiled: October 16, 2017Date of Patent: April 11, 2023Assignee: UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHAMPTONInventors: Isha Gupta, Alexantrou Serb, Themistoklis Prodromakis
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Patent number: 11617620Abstract: Systems and methods are disclosed for identifying anatomically relevant blood flow characteristics in a patient. One method includes: receiving, in an electronic storage medium, a patient-specific representation of at least a portion of vasculature of the patient having a lesion at one or more points; receiving values for one or more metrics of interest associated with one or more locations in the vasculature of the patient; receiving one or more observed lumen measurements of the vasculature of the patient; determining the location of a diseased region in the vasculature of the patient using the received values for the one or more metrics of interest, wherein the determination of the location includes predicting or receiving one or more healthy lumen measurements of the vasculature of the patient; determining the extent of the diseased region; and generating a visualization of at least the diseased region.Type: GrantFiled: February 23, 2018Date of Patent: April 4, 2023Assignee: HeartFlow, Inc.Inventors: Amy Tran, Greg Hart, Heather Brown, Michiel Schaap, Rhea Tombropoulos, Sethuraman Sankaran