Patents Examined by Robert A. Sorey
  • Patent number: 11830606
    Abstract: Systems and methods for predicting risk for a medical event associated with evaluating or treating a patient for a disease are provided. Input medical imaging data and patient data of a patient are received. The input medical imaging data includes abnormality patterns associated with a disease. Imaging features are extracted from the input medical imaging data using a trained machine learning based feature extraction network. One or more of the extracted imaging features are normalized. The one or more normalized extracted imaging features and the patient data are encoded into features using a trained machine learning based encoder network. Risk for a medical event associated with evaluating or treating the patient for the disease is predicted based on the encoded features.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 3, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 28, 2023
    Assignee: Siemens Healthcare GmbH
    Inventors: Puneet Sharma, Ingo Schmuecking, Sasa Grbic, Dorin Comaniciu
  • Patent number: 11810658
    Abstract: A method for tracking and incentivizing wellness activity using a fitness tracking device includes: receiving user wellness data collected over a time period from at least one fitness tracking device of a user, the user wellness data including at least one wellness metric corresponding to the user; analyzing user transaction data including transactions initiated by the user with a portable financial device over the time period; automatically determining a wellness award for the user based at least partially on the user wellness data and the user transaction data for the time period; and automatically initiating the wellness award for the user. A system for tracking and incentivizing a wellness activity using a fitness tracking device is also disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 18, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 7, 2023
    Assignee: Visa International Service Association
    Inventor: Shweta Sitaram Naik
  • Patent number: 11810652
    Abstract: Systems, methods and computer-readable media are provided for predicting candidacy for Kidney Surgery and related computer-performed decision support. In particular, embodiments of the disclosure are directed to identifying populations of patients who are candidates for vascular access placement in Chronic Kidney Disease (CKD). Some embodiments of the present disclosure provide a system and method for continually tracking the clinical and physiologic status of a patient in a hospital. At least some of the embodiments assist nephrologists in preventing and reducing the frequency of crises in urgent/emergent presentation with requirement for dialysis (“crashing onto dialysis”) by using the systems' capability to recognize patterns in a patient's eGFR and serum uric acid values before the patient deteriorates or reaches a crisis.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 1, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 7, 2023
    Assignee: Cerner Innovation, Inc.
    Inventor: Douglas S. McNair
  • Patent number: 11798667
    Abstract: This description relates to insight into the asthma management habits of a patient or a plurality of patients. The provided information includes records of rescue medication usage events, records of controller medication events, and overall evaluations of a patients disease management. Users of the application may include both patients who may use the information to monitor their own habits or providers who may use the information to monitor patients or improve a patient's existing medication regimen.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 22, 2022
    Date of Patent: October 24, 2023
    Assignee: Reciprocal Labs Corporation
    Inventors: Meredith A. Barrett, Mike Lohmeier, Shannon M. Hamilton, Michael J. Tuffli, Dmitry Stupakov, Christopher Hogg, John David Van Sickle
  • Patent number: 11786735
    Abstract: The present invention relates to methods for remotely tuning treatment parameters in movement disorder therapy systems where the subject and clinician are located remotely from each other. The present invention still further provides methods of quantifying movement disorders for the treatment of patients who exhibit symptoms of such movement disorders including, but not limited to, Parkinson's disease and Parkinsonism, Dystonia, Chorea, and Huntington's disease, Ataxia, Tremor and Essential Tremor, Tourette syndrome, stroke, and the like. The present invention yet further relates to methods of remotely tuning a therapy device using objective quantified movement disorder symptom data to determine the therapy setting or parameters to be transmitted and provided to the subject via his or her therapy device. The present invention also provides treatment and tuning remotely, allowing for home monitoring of subjects.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 19, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 17, 2023
    Assignee: Great Lakes NeuroTechnologies Inc.
    Inventors: Dustin A Heldman, Joseph P Giuffrida, Thomas O Mera
  • Patent number: 11791024
    Abstract: A mechanism is provided in a data processing system to implement localized device specific limitations on access to patient medical information. An authorizing device receives a request from a requestor device via a dose proximity communication protocol requesting to access an electronic medical record (EMR) associated with a patient. The authorizing device receives user input via a user interface specifying conditions for permitting access to the EMR. The authorizing device transmits an access authorization request to a patient registry system requesting the patient registry system to provide access to the EMR associated with the patient in accordance with the conditions for permitting access specified by the user input. The patient registry system generates a temporary access data structure based on the specified conditions. The patient registry system processes a subsequent request from the requestor device to access the EMR in accordance with the temporary access data structure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 23, 2017
    Date of Patent: October 17, 2023
    Inventor: Corville O. Allen
  • Patent number: 11786730
    Abstract: A system and method for tuning the parameters of a therapeutic medical device comprises a movement measurement data acquisition system capable of wireless transmission; processing comprising kinematic feature extraction, a scoring algorithm trained using scores from expert clinicians, a therapeutic device parameter setting adjustment suggestion algorithm preferably trained using the parameter setting adjustment judgments of expert clinicians; and a display and/or means of updating the parameter settings of the treatment device. The invention facilitates the treatment of movement disorders including Parkinson's disease, essential tremor and the like by optimizing deep brain stimulation (DBS) parameter settings, eliminating as much as possible motor symptoms and reducing time and costs of surgical and outpatient procedures and improving patient outcomes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 27, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 17, 2023
    Assignee: Great Lakes NeuroTechnologies Inc.
    Inventors: Dustin A. Heldman, Joseph P. Giuffrida, Thomas O. Mera
  • Patent number: 11790319
    Abstract: Method and apparatus for managing the physician referral process, whereby a referring physician (e.g., a primary care provider) refers a patient to another physician (e.g., a specialist) for a particular medical procedure, analysis or care. An aggregator provides systems and methods available to physicians and their administrative staff (herein collectively referred to as physicians or doctors) to: book appointments on behalf of their patients online through a doctor directory and calendar function; filter available doctors by specialty, subspecialty, procedure, insurance participation and/or hospital network; transfer a patient's personal information, medical history and pre-selected insurance forms from one doctor's office to another's, electronically; transfer and upload relevant forms and paperwork via fax from one doctor's office to another; track referrals historically (over time) on a by-doctor or by-patient basis; facilitate referrals to and from doctors in a certain network or group.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 23, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 17, 2023
    Assignee: Zocdoc, Inc.
    Inventors: Oliver D. Kharraz Tavakol, Nikhil Ganju, Cyrus E. Massoumi
  • Patent number: 11783929
    Abstract: Systems and method are provided for generating a record of a medical procedure. A system includes a processor and a non-transitory computer readable medium. The medium includes a graphical user interface configured to display a graphic representing an anatomical region of a patient and accept a gesture from a user comprising a selected procedure and, diagnosis when appropriate, and a location on the displayed anatomical region. A knowledge base stores a plurality of templates, each comprising a set of fields. A record generation engine selects an associated one of the plurality of templates according to each of the selected procedure and, diagnosis when appropriate, and the location on the displayed anatomical region and populates the set of fields associated with the selected template. A database interface formats the populated template into a database record suitable for an electronic health records database associated with the system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 30, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 10, 2023
    Inventor: Matthew A. Molenda
  • Patent number: 11783262
    Abstract: An information system and user interface to enable the analysis of clinical data for operational improvement and issue identification in medical imaging procedures is disclosed. In an example, opportunity and usage analytics are generated from relevant imaging procedure data (e.g., radiology procedure data) through operations including: obtaining clinical data that indicates usage of imaging resources to perform medical imaging procedures; analyzing the usage of the imaging resources from the clinical data, to identify values of opportunities for predicted changes to the usage of the imaging resources; and generating a visualization of the values of the opportunities for output in a graphical user interface, the visualization indicating values of opportunities relative to past usage and predicted changes to the usage of the imaging resources.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 20, 2018
    Date of Patent: October 10, 2023
    Assignee: Canon Medical Systems Corporation
    Inventors: Benjamin Roy Slater, James E. Rosenthal, Joseph John Fromm
  • Patent number: 11783936
    Abstract: A computer-implemented method for determining a pathology in 3D image data is describe wherein the method may comprise:receiving at least a first 3D image of a body part, the 3D image comprising voxels associated with a predetermined image volume; a first 3D convolutional neural network determining a position of a volume of interest (VOI) in the image volume of the first 3D image, the VOI being associated with a pathology of the body part, the VOI defining a sub-volume of the image volume; determining first VOI voxels by selecting voxels of the first 3D image that have a position within the VOI as determined by the first 3D convolution neural network and providing the first VOI voxels to the input of a second 3D convolutional neural network; the second 3D convolutional neural network, determining a target label value on the basis of at least the first VOI voxels, the target label value being indicative of the presence or absence of a pathology in the VOI; and, generating a medical report by associating the ta
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 10, 2018
    Date of Patent: October 10, 2023
    Assignee: AIDENCE B.V.
    Inventor: Mark-Jan Harte
  • Patent number: 11755996
    Abstract: A method for adjudicating reimbursement for allergens includes obtaining National Drug Codes (NDC's) for a plurality of allergens, storing in a central control database the obtained NDC's in association with an associated AWP and associated information for the allergen, which associated information includes translation information to allow practitioners to determine from a desired diluted level and number of doses of a desired NDC carrying antigen and a known dilution procedure how to translate back to the amount of base concentration of the NDC carrying antigen used to create the desired diluted level and number of doses, and determining if any of the NDC's in the central control database are contained within the third-party database and, if not, transferring the associated NDC's not in the third-party database to the third-party database.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 21, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 12, 2023
    Assignee: ROCA MEDICAL LTD.
    Inventors: James Strader, Jovan Hutton Pulitzer
  • Patent number: 11756656
    Abstract: A method is provided for treating or preventing symptoms of asthma in a subject in need thereof by administering a corticosteroid pharmaceutical composition to a subject qualified for over-the-counter access to the corticosteroid pharmaceutical composition. In some embodiments, the corticosteroid pharmaceutical composition includes a class B corticosteroid, a glucocorticosteroid, budesonide, ciclesonide, fluticasone furoate, mometasone furoate, fluticasone propionate, or beclomethasone dipropionate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 13, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 12, 2023
    Assignee: ASTRAZENECA UK LIMITED
    Inventors: Robert Peter Prybolsky, Judy Firor
  • Patent number: 11749391
    Abstract: Systems and methods for a comprehensive online healthcare platform are provided that increase the efficiency of the medication selection process. In one embodiment, a method comprises responsive to a query from the user via the user device, receiving a list of one or more medications identified from a storage device and receiving medication information about each identified medication in the list of the one or more medications from the storage device. The method further includes, calculating a user personalized grade for each of the identified medications based on the medication information and the user information, transmitting the user personalized grade and medication information to the user device and displaying simultaneously on the user device, the user personalized grade, cost factor, prescription experience data, and secondary technical effects of each identified medication.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 12, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 5, 2023
    Assignee: Cambia Health Solutions, Inc.
    Inventors: Alexander Thorpe, Nicole Cathcart, Sean Karbowicz
  • Patent number: 11730550
    Abstract: A system comprises a teleoperational assembly including an operator input system and a teleoperational manipulator configured for operation by the operator input system. The teleoperational manipulator is coupled to a medical instrument in a surgical environment. The system also comprises a processing unit including one or more processors. The processing unit is configured to retrieve a user profile for a user. The user profile includes a parameter established during a prior teleoperational procedure. The parameter includes anthropometric data for the user. The processing unit is also configured to provide instructions to configure an operation of the teleoperational assembly based upon the parameter. The operation includes adjusting an operating table based on the anthropometric data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 11, 2017
    Date of Patent: August 22, 2023
    Assignee: INTUITIVE SURGICAL OPERATIONS, INC.
    Inventors: Brandon D. Itkowitz, Julie L. Berry, Anthony Michael Jarc, Amy E. Kerdok
  • Patent number: 11723560
    Abstract: Systems and methods are provided to provide guidance to a user regarding management of a physiologic condition such as diabetes. The determination may be based upon a patient glucose concentration data sensed by a glucose concentration sensor. A host state change associated with the host glucose concentration data may be determined. A guidance message based at least in part on the host state change may also be determined. The guidance message may be delivered through a user interface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 6, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 15, 2023
    Assignee: Dexcom, Inc.
    Inventors: Alexandra Elena Constantin, Scott M. Belliveau, Naresh C. Bhavaraju, Jennifer Blackwell, Eric Cohen, Basab Dattaray, Anna Leigh Davis, Rian Draeger, Arturo Garcia, John Michael Gray, Hari Hampapuram, Nathaniel David Heintzman, Lauren Hruby Jepson, Matthew Lawrence Johnson, Apurv Ullas Kamath, Katherine Yerre Koehler, Phil Mayou, Patrick Wile McBride, Michael Robert Mensinger, Sumitaka Mikami, Andrew Attila Pal, Nicholas Polytaridis, Philip Thomas Pupa, Eli Reihman, Peter C. Simpson, Tomas C. Walker, Daniel Justin Wiedeback
  • Patent number: 11727516
    Abstract: A system for customizing user parameters relating to a pharmaceutical treatment, receives, a first set of parameters associated with the pharmaceutical treatment, that indicate factors associated with the pharmaceutical treatment, in a first format. The system determines a subset of the set of first parameters based on the one or more factors and converts them into a second format. The system provides the second set of parameters to a second computing device, receives from the second computing device, a third set of parameters, wherein the third set of parameters are based on the one or more factors, the third set of parameters being provided in a third format, converts the third set of parameters from the second third format to the first format based on a second set of parameters, and present the converted third set of parameters received from the second computing device to the first computing device party.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 26, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 15, 2023
    Assignee: PHARMACCX, INC.
    Inventors: Armen Solakhyan, Peter Rice, Richard Bergström, Patrick Schneider, Cole Boskey
  • Patent number: 11715550
    Abstract: A multi-format communications system provides a way for a company to control information, some of which may be confidential information, such as PHI, exchanged with existing and potential customers, through individuals associated with the company in a manner preferred by the customers, particularly for non-confidential information, while maintaining a permanent record of communications. With the company maintaining control, if an employee leaves, the employee can be blocked from access to customer information, including communications. Additionally, a time-line view of all events related to a customer can be displayed including communications.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 19, 2017
    Date of Patent: August 1, 2023
    Assignee: Rhinogram Inc.
    Inventors: Keith Dressler, Bo Ferger, Douglas Ford, Rob Whelan, Yasser Ansari, Yanis Markin
  • Patent number: 11715563
    Abstract: Disclosed herein are embodiments of systems, methods, and products comprises an analytic server, which determines user health attributes by tracking the user’s behaviors and activities within a predetermined space. The analytic server receives tracking data from a set of sensors installed in the predetermined space. The sensors track a beacon worn by the user. The analytic server determines micro-locations and user behaviors based on the tracking data. The analytic server determines the coordinates of the sensors based on the sensor identifiers and maps the coordinates to regions by referring to a floor plan map. The analytic server determines the user behaviors and activities by aggregating the micro-locations and regions the user visited at different time. The analytic server determines the user’s health score based on the micro-locations and user behaviors by executing an artificial intelligence model. The analytic server determines a recommendation of premium based on the health score.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 6, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 1, 2023
    Assignee: Massachusetts Mutual Life Insurance Company
    Inventors: Adam Fox, Sears Merritt, Marc Maier
  • Patent number: 11715569
    Abstract: A medical information navigation engine (“MINE”) includes a medical information interface, a reconciliation engine and an intent-based presentation engine. The medical information interface receives medical information from a plurality of medical sources, which is subsequently reconciled by the reconciliation engine. The intent-based presentation engine clusters the reconciled medical information by applying at least one clustering rule to the reconciled medication information. The clustered reconciled medical information can be presented to a user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 25, 2015
    Date of Patent: August 1, 2023
    Assignee: Apixio, Inc.
    Inventors: Imran N. Chaudhri, Shahram Shawn Dastmalchi, Robert Derward Rogers, Vishnuvyas Sethumadhavan, Shamshad Alam Ansari