Patents Examined by Robert A. Sorey
  • Patent number: 11488695
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and computer-storage media are provided for facilitating the management of population health. A parallel processing architecture receives patient population health data from healthcare facilities along with any updated data. A high-level clinical logic is executed against the data to identify, among other things, patients in the population who qualify for health intervention programs. Using this information, healthcare facilities can implement management programs to help care for these patients.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 26, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 1, 2022
    Assignee: CERNER INNOVATION, INC.
    Inventors: Ryan Alan Brush, Paul Hartwell, Mike Rodriguez
  • Patent number: 11482312
    Abstract: Systems, methods, articles of manufacture, and computer-readable media for verification of medical status using a contactless card. An application may receive a request specifying a subject and a medical condition. The application may receive a cryptogram from a contactless card. The application may receive a decryption result from a server and determine that the server decrypted the cryptogram. The application may receive, from the contactless card, a medical attestation, a digital signature of the medical attestation, and a public key of the digital signature. The application may decrypt the digital signature based on the public key of the digital signature and verify the medical attestation based on the decrypted digital signature. The application may determine, based on the verification of the medical attestation, that the subject is immune to the medical condition. The application may output a result that the subject is immune to the medical condition.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 30, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 25, 2022
    Assignee: Capital One Services, LLC
    Inventors: Kevin Osborn, Jeffrey Rule
  • Patent number: 11481728
    Abstract: A method for implementing a radiation therapy knowledge exchange starts with searching a database of cases studies and selecting a case study. The selected case study is downloaded. The downloaded case study is applied to a medical case, wherein the downloaded case is applied using deformable image registration to deform reference images of the downloaded case to medical images of the medical case. After application of the downloaded case study, the medical case is uploaded to the network, wherein uploading the medical case allows at least the submitting clinician to download, review, and edit at least a portion of the medical case to create a reviewed medical case. Finally, the reviewed medical case is downloaded and applied to the medical case to create a final medical case.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 25, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 25, 2022
    Assignees: VARIAN MEDICAL SYSTEMS, INC., VARIAN MEDICAL SYSTEMS INTERNATIONAL AG
    Inventors: Burton Lang, Corey Zankowski, Ramin Baghaie
  • Patent number: 11478124
    Abstract: Systems and methods are provided for delivering consistent high quality, cost efficient results in fixed or mobile endoscopy facilities, without requiring the continuous real-time involvement of a fellowship trained gastroenterologist, by integrating patient specific information into decision support systems and AI/machine learning systems employed during the planning and examination phases of the endoscopy procedure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 9, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 25, 2022
    Assignee: DocBot, Inc.
    Inventors: Andrew Ninh, Peter Crosby, William E. Karnes, Efren Rael, John Cifarelli
  • Patent number: 11482330
    Abstract: A system comprising an assessment engine configured to asynchronously transmit assessment questions to a user and, in response, receive a plurality of personal data from a user. A behavior module communicatively coupled to the assessment engine and operable to generate a behavior profile associated with the user based, at least in part, on the plurality of personal data. The behavior profile configured to identify one or more addiction habits of the user and respective one or more triggers operable to induce the user to desire the one or more addiction habits. A plurality of sensors positioned proximate the user to provide real-time measurements of one or more biological conditions of the user body. A prediction module communicatively coupled to the plurality of sensors, the prediction module operable to predict occurrence of the one or more triggers based on the behavioral profile and the real-time measurements of the one or more biological conditions of the user body.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 10, 2018
    Date of Patent: October 25, 2022
    Assignee: Approved Assessments LLC
    Inventor: Annette Bosworth
  • Patent number: 11481395
    Abstract: A database query processing system for blood donation tracking includes a database, a network interface circuit and a processing circuit. The database stores records for a plurality of blood donors, each record comprising an amount of a blood component the blood donor has donated. The processing circuit determines an amount of a blood component a first donor may donate based on records for a plurality of donations made by the first blood donor and based on a limit of an amount of blood component the donor may donate in a predetermined period of time. The processing circuit further receives a request for the amount of the blood component the first donor may donate and transmits the amount of the blood component the first donor may donate to the remote computing device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 21, 2016
    Date of Patent: October 25, 2022
    Assignee: FENWAL, INC.
    Inventors: Kathleen Mickles, Dale Meixelsperger
  • Patent number: 11455597
    Abstract: Embodiments are directed to providing remote healthcare services including remote diagnostics, and facilitating third-party healthcare payments. In one embodiment, a computer system receives an input including authentication credentials from a healthcare entity, and also requests assistance from another healthcare entity. The computer system authenticates the first healthcare entity using the authentication credentials, receives an input including authentication credentials from the other healthcare entity, and authenticates the other healthcare entity using these authentication credentials. The computer system further receives real-time information related to a health condition of a patient, where the real-time health condition information is provided to the second healthcare entity.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 22, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 27, 2022
    Assignee: DAV ACQUISITION CORP.
    Inventors: Michael A. Liberty, Mike Love
  • Patent number: 11453126
    Abstract: The present disclosure describes various clinical workflows and other methods that utilize a telemedicine device in a healthcare network. According to various embodiments, a healthcare practitioner may utilize a remote presence interfaces (RPIs) on a remote access device (RAD), such as a portable electronic device (PED) to interface with a telemedicine device. The healthcare practitioner may directly interface with a display interface of a telemedicine device or utilize the RPI on a RAD. The present disclosure provides various clinical workflows involving a telemedicine device to view patient data during a telepresence session, perform rounds to visit multiple patients, monitor a patient, allow for remote visitations by companions, and various other clinical workflow methods.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 2, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 27, 2022
    Assignees: TELADOC HEALTH, INC., IROBOT CORPORATION
    Inventors: Fuji Lai, Timothy C. Wright, Yair Lurie, Yulun Wang
  • Patent number: 11450414
    Abstract: A system and method for patient data processing during diagnosis and therapy of a patient's sleep disorder breathing. The system and method includes providing diagnostic providers and therapy device providers with a simple and fast way to generate a clinical diagnosis from a diagnostic device and to transfer that patient's record and diagnostic data to the therapy provider responsible for the patient's ongoing care. The patient may be automatically assigned therapy devices having predetermined therapy settings that are based on the patient's record and diagnostic data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 3, 2014
    Date of Patent: September 20, 2022
    Assignee: ResMed Inc.
    Inventors: Mark David Buckley, Linda Elizabeth Laidlaw
  • Patent number: 11443854
    Abstract: Techniques are provided for identifying interactions between natural medicines and modern medicines. A corpus of information is analyzed pertaining to interactions of natural medicines with modern medicines for treating a condition. A mapping is created, wherein natural medicines are mapped to modern medicines for treating the condition. An on-line clinical trial study group is created, allowing participation by users, wherein a participation in a group is allowed for a selected set of users based on a group medication usage profile. Information from participants in each group is collected, and the collected information is analyzed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 24, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 13, 2022
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Anca Sailer, Kevin Paul Julier, Ajay Mohindra, Mujeebur Rahman
  • Patent number: 11429938
    Abstract: The subject matter disclosed herein includes distributed systems for secure storage and retrieval of encrypted biological specimen data. According to one embodiment, the system may include a submission device client operable to send, to a patient record server device, a patient record; and receive, from the patient record server device, a confirmation of receipt of the patient record. The system may further comprise a patient record server device comprising a first processor and second memory, a second communications interface associated with the first processor and second memory and operable to receive, from the submission device client, the patient record; send, to the submission device client, the confirmation of receipt of the patient record; receive, from a member device client, patient profile information; determine search results based on the patient profile information; and send, to the member device client, information indicating the search results.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 20, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 30, 2022
    Assignee: Global Specimen Solutions
    Inventors: Amelia Wall Warner, Mark Anthony Collins
  • Patent number: 11417424
    Abstract: Systems and methods for developing a disease detection model. One method includes training the model using an image study and an associated disease label mined from a radiology report. The image study including a sequence of a plurality of two-dimensional slices of a three-dimensional image volume, and the model including a convolutional neural network layer and a convolutional long short-term memory layer. Training the model includes individually extracting a set of features from each of the plurality of two-dimensional slices using the convolutional neural network layer, sequentially processing the features extracted by the convolutional neural network layer for each of the plurality of two-dimensional slices using the convolutional long short-term memory layer, processing output from the convolutional long short-term memory layer for each of the plurality of two-dimensional slices to generate a probability of the disease, and updating the model based on comparing the probability to the label.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 11, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 16, 2022
    Assignee: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
    Inventors: Nathaniel Mason Braman, Ehsan Dehghan Marvast, David James Beymer
  • Patent number: 11417419
    Abstract: A method includes displaying a window of a first application which includes text corresponding to a patient identifier for a first patient. The method further includes receiving input corresponding to a preconfigured input sequence associated with an electronic health records (EHR) agent, and initiating, by the EHR agent in response to the preconfigured input sequence, a patient information overlay process. The patient information overlay process includes sending a copy command to copy first text from the window of the first application to the clipboard, accessing the first text, searching the accessed first text for an identification of a patient, determining that the patient identifier represents an identification of a patient, accessing patient information for the first patient based on the patient identifier, and displaying an overlay interface overlaid over the window proximate a cursor, the overlay interface including accessed patient information for the first patient.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 4, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 16, 2022
    Inventor: Andre Hamer
  • Patent number: 11410259
    Abstract: Various analytics systems are disclosed. An analytics system is configured to communicably couple to a surgical hub. The surgical hub is configured to communicably couple to a modular device that is controlled by a control program. The analytics system comprises a processor and a memory coupled to the processor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 29, 2018
    Date of Patent: August 9, 2022
    Assignee: Cilag GmbH International
    Inventors: Jason L. Harris, Frederick E. Shelton, IV, David C. Yates
  • Patent number: 11410775
    Abstract: Systems and methods for automatically transforming a user interface include a computer system, a first data store containing medical records, a second data store containing one or more data models, and a communications network operatively coupling the computer system, the first data store, and the second data store. The computer system may be configured to automatically extract a term from the medical records, identify a first medical concept related to the term, identify an intervention related to the first medical concept, identify a second medical concept related to the intervention, and transform the user interface by generating an interactive node corresponding to the second medical concept. The user interface may display a first popup in response to an input cursor being placed over the interactive node. The first popup may display detailed information generated based on the second medical concept.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 10, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 9, 2022
    Assignee: The General Hospital Corporation
    Inventors: Michael E. Zalis, Mitchell A. Harris, Creagh Milford, Timothy Ferris
  • Patent number: 11387005
    Abstract: The techniques described in this disclosure relate to methods and systems for generating a model profile to identify opportunities to, for example, initiate dialogue between a pharmacy and a patient. The techniques include a method comprising generating a model profile to identify at least one discrete opportunity to initiate dialogue with a patient; analyzing a patient profile associated with a patient to determine whether the patient profile fits the model profile; determining that the patient profile fits the model profile; and sending a message to the patient.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 23, 2018
    Date of Patent: July 12, 2022
    Assignee: CVS Pharmacy, Inc.
    Inventors: Bryan D. Tate, Christine C. Sawicki
  • Patent number: 11379794
    Abstract: A drug dispensing system includes fulfillment stations that are each characterized by a set of dispensary attributes. The fulfillment stations each, in response to receiving a first order message including a first unique drug identifier, fill a container with pills matching the first unique drug identifier. A routing determination module, for each order message corresponding to a prescription order, selects one of the fulfillment stations based on compatibility between dispensary attributes for the selected fulfillment station and dispensation preferences related to the order message and transmits the order message to the selected fulfillment station. An order status subsystem conditionally sends a cancellation instruction relating to one of the order messages to the respective fulfillment station to cancel dispensing of pills.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 21, 2019
    Date of Patent: July 5, 2022
    Assignee: Express Scripts Strategic Development, Inc.
    Inventors: Charles E. Eller, Jonathan W. Joplin
  • Patent number: 11363982
    Abstract: A system and method for scoring movement disorder symptoms comprises a movement measurement data acquisition system and processing comprising kinematic feature extraction and an algorithm trained using Unified Parkinson's Disease Rating Scale (UPDRS) scores from skilled clinicians. The movement data acquisition system, or “movement measuring apparatus,” may comprise sensors such as accelerometers or gyroscopes or may utilize motion capture and/or machine vision technology or various other methods to measure tremor, bradykinesia, dyskinesia, or other movement disorders in a subject afflicted with Parkinson's disease, essential tremor or the like. The method outputs, and system displays, a score that uses the same scale as the UPDRS but has greater resolution and lower variability.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 15, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 21, 2022
    Assignee: Great Lakes NeuroTechnologies Inc.
    Inventors: Joseph P. Giuffrida, Dustin A. Heldman
  • Patent number: 11361257
    Abstract: Methods and systems are described for managing diagnostic imaging order requests. A system is configured to receive diagnostic image order request from ordering physicians. The received diagnostic imaging order requests comprise imaging order information including ordering provider information, patient information, diagnostic imaging order information, and/or clinical decision support information. Upon determining that a guideline-based clinical decision support system process was required but not followed, a notification to the ordering physician is generated and sent.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 11, 2018
    Date of Patent: June 14, 2022
    Assignee: RAMSOFT Inc.
    Inventor: Vijay Ramanathan
  • Patent number: 11354623
    Abstract: Embodiments are directed to providing remote healthcare services including remote diagnostics, and facilitating third-party healthcare payments. In one embodiment, a computer system receives an input including authentication credentials from a healthcare entity, and also requests assistance from another healthcare entity. The computer system authenticates the first healthcare entity using the authentication credentials, receives an input including authentication credentials from the other healthcare entity, and authenticates the other healthcare entity using these authentication credentials. The computer system further receives real-time information related to a health condition of a patient, where the real-time health condition information is provided to the second healthcare entity.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 15, 2014
    Date of Patent: June 7, 2022
    Assignee: DAV ACQUISITION CORP.
    Inventors: Michael A. Liberty, Mike Love