Patents Examined by Sunita Reddy
  • Patent number: 11633576
    Abstract: A multi-purpose balloon intra-cavity catheter includes a catheter having a proximal end portion, a central portion and a non-branching distal end portion, a plurality of lumens associated with the catheter extending from the proximal end portion, and a plurality of inflatable balloons positioned in the central portion and/or the non-branching distal end portion. Each of the plurality of inflatable balloons is communicatively associated with a corresponding one of the plurality of lumens, the plurality of inflatable balloons being selectively inflated or deflated to position and stabilize the catheter in a cavity for delivery of a medical treatment. The catheter can include an extraction opening associated with a lumen to remove fluids and materials from the cavity, and a connector associated with a corresponding lumen adapted to selectively receive one or more of a fluid medium or a radioactive isotope provided to a corresponding lumen for delivery of the medical treatment.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 9, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 25, 2023
    Assignee: Best Medical International, Inc.
    Inventor: Manny R. Subramanian
  • Patent number: 11617854
    Abstract: A method for helping a user awaken from sleep includes receiving information indicating a wake-up time frame; receiving a plurality of biometric readings of the user, each biometric reading including at least one of a heart rate or respiration rate; based on the plurality of biometric readings, determining that the user has had sufficient sleep; and arranging a wake-up sound after entering the wake-up time frame and after determining that the user has had sufficient sleep or at the end of the wake-up timeframe.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 9, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 4, 2023
    Assignee: BOSE CORPORATION
    Inventors: Jonathan Freed, Laura Ware, Jack Read, Debra Reich, Leela Keshavan, Brian David Mulcahey
  • Patent number: 11612713
    Abstract: Typically, high NREM stage N3 sleep detection accuracy is achieved using a frontal electrode referenced to an electrode at a distant location on the head (e.g., the mastoid, or the earlobe). For comfort and design considerations it is more convenient to have active and reference electrodes closely positioned on the frontal region of the head. This configuration, however, significantly attenuates the signal, which degrades sleep stage detection (e.g., N3) performance. The present disclosure describes a deep neural network (DNN) based solution developed to detect sleep using frontal electrodes only. N3 detection is enhanced through post-processing of the soft DNN outputs. Detection of slow-waves and sleep micro-arousals is accomplished using frequency domain thresholds. Volume modulation uses a high-frequency/low-frequency spectral ratio extracted from the frontal signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 27, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 28, 2023
    Assignee: KONINKLIJKE PHILIPS N.V.
    Inventors: Gary Nelson Garcia Molina, Ulf Grossekathöfer, Stojan Trajanovski, Jesse Salazar, Tsvetomira Kirova Tsoneva, Sander Theodoor Pastoor, Antonio Aquino, Adrienne Heinrich, Birpal Singh Sachdev
  • Patent number: 11606648
    Abstract: An implantable hearing aid system is disclosed. According to one or more of the mentioned aspects, the implantable hearing aid system comprises a charger unit which includes a coil unit having a first resonance frequency, a hearing aid and an implantable component. The hearing aid includes a rechargeable battery, an inductive coil arrangement having a second resonance frequency configured to form an inductive charging link with the coil unit to receive power signals from the charger unit. The implantable component includes an implantable coil, wherein the inductive coil arrangement may further be configured to form a transcutaneous link with the implantable coil to transmit at least one of data and power to the implantable component.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 31, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 14, 2023
    Assignee: Oticon Medical A/S
    Inventors: Bradford Backus, Régis Pierquin
  • Patent number: 11596803
    Abstract: Certain aspects relate to systems and techniques for an orthopedic treatment system. In one aspect, the system includes a body unit configured to attach to an orthopedic bone plate, an electromagnetic field emitter positioned within the body unit, the electromagnetic field emitter configured to project an electromagnetic field at a therapeutic frequency for a therapeutic duration. The system may further include an internal power source positioned within the body unit, the internal power source configured to provide electrical current to the electromagnetic field emitter. The system may also include a receiving coil positioned within the body unit, the receiving coil configured to receive power from an external power source, the external power source positioned outside the body unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 1, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 7, 2023
    Inventor: Richard Rogachefsky
  • Patent number: 11596802
    Abstract: Embodiments of the present disclosure provide a biofield apparatus. The apparatus includes a first vial and a second vial configured to hold fluid for storing biofield information associated with a subject. The apparatus includes an input plate and an output plate. The input plate and the output plate include an input plate vial well and an output plate vial well, respectively. The apparatus includes a control unit configured to provide a first signal to the input plate for capturing the biofield information from the subject. The control unit encodes and transmits the biofield information captured from the subject, to the fluid within the first vial. Further, the control unit amplifies the biofield information within the first vial based on a target amplification level. The control unit transmits the biofield information from the fluid within the second vial to the subject for enhancing the biofield information and properties of the subject.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 5, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 7, 2023
    Assignee: Starlight Investments, LLC
    Inventor: Sundara Delphini
  • Patent number: 11590355
    Abstract: Photobiomodulation therapy (PBMT) can be applied to a tender area on a subject's body to treat fibromyalgia. A light source device can be contacted to a subject's skin proximal to a tender area on the subject's body. A light signal (with wavelengths from the red to infrared part of the spectrum) can be applied in at least one of a pulsed operating mode, a continuous operating mode, and a super-pulsed operating mode through the light source device to the tender area. The light signal is applied for a time sufficient to stimulate a phototherapeutic response in the tender area to treat fibromyalgia.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 13, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 28, 2023
    Assignee: MULTI RADIANCE MEDICAL
    Inventors: Douglas Johnson, Max Kanarsky, Ernesto Leal-Junior
  • Patent number: 11571348
    Abstract: A flexible rapid deployable system that may be used create an isolated space within a medical transport vehicle for use when transporting infected or contaminated patients, including a flexible tent-like liner that creates a room inside the vehicle where both the patient and medical personnel can be isolated and that isolates contaminants within and a filtration system capable of producing the required air flow to maintain a negative pressurized isolated environment, sized to effectively accomplish this for the isolated cubic space.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 9, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 7, 2023
    Assignee: AIR SHELTERS USA, LLC
    Inventor: Willem VanBasten
  • Patent number: 11559700
    Abstract: A fastener applicator includes a body portion including a handle assembly, a cartridge assembly supported within the body portion, the cartridge assembly including implantable fasteners, a drive assembly supported within the body portion and operatively coupled to the cartridge assembly to engage the implantable fasteners, and an actuation assembly supported within the handle assembly and operatively coupled to the drive assembly to fire a distal-most implantable fastener upon actuation of the actuation assembly. At least one of the implantable fasteners includes a body including a tissue facing surface, a tissue penetrating portion extending from the body, and a capsule affixed to the tissue facing surface of the body, the capsule including radioactive material.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 29, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 24, 2023
    Assignee: Covidien LP
    Inventors: Stanislaw Kostrzewski, Gerald Hodgkinson, Lee A. Olson, Russell Pribanic, Matthew Chowaniec, Robert Pedros, Thomas Campanelli, David Nicholas
  • Patent number: 11534572
    Abstract: An earphone includes a loudspeaker, a microphone, a housing supporting the loudspeaker and microphone, and ear tip surrounding the housing and configured to acoustically couple both the loudspeaker and the microphone to an ear canal of a user, and to acoustically close the entrance to the user's ear canal. A processor provides output audio signals to the loudspeaker, receives input audio signals from the microphone, extracts a rate of respiration from the input audio signals, adjusts the output audio signals based on the extracted rate of respiration, and provides the adjusted output audio signals to the loudspeaker.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 4, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 27, 2022
    Assignee: Bose Corporation
    Inventors: Jack Read, Tegan Ayers, Christopher R. Paetsch, Harsh Anilkant Mankodi, Andrew D. Dominijanni, Daniel M. Gauger, Jr., Romain Kirszenblat, Lifun Lin, Mikhail Ioffe
  • Patent number: 11534318
    Abstract: A stent graft having an internal bidirectional branch formed from a tubular segment of graft material. The internal bidirectional branch extends within the lumen of the stent graft and proximally and distally from a lateral opening in the sidewall of the stent graft. The tubular segment from which the stent graft is made is partitioned into first and second sections along a length of the tubular segment to form the internal bidirectional branch. The lateral opening has a length and a width that may be greater than the diameter of the internal bidirectional branch and may be in the shape of a quadrilateral. The internal bidirectional branch and the stent graft are formed from a single piece of graft material.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 22, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 27, 2022
    Assignee: Cook Medical Technologies LLC
    Inventors: Blayne A. Roeder, Chantelle King, Nuno Dias, Marcelo Ferreira
  • Patent number: 11534620
    Abstract: A magnetic stimulation device having planar coil structure is disclosed. It contains a power supply module, a current control module, a plurality of planar coil modules and a plurality of electrical connection modules. In the planar coil module of the present invention, the coil structure has a flat and thin design and can be modularized. Compared with the existing magnetic stimulation devices, the overall structure of the present invention is light, thin, short, convenient to carry and use, and can be installed on clothing or built in a mobile device to provide a convenient magnetic stimulation treatment.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 24, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 27, 2022
    Inventor: Po-Lei Lee
  • Patent number: 11524135
    Abstract: Non-pharmaceutical systems and methods of treating the symptoms of fibromyalgia are described. The method includes administering a therapeutically effective amount of a sensory stimulus to a person, wherein the sensory stimulus includes one or more visual stimuli and one or more auditory stimuli.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 9, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 13, 2022
    Assignee: Sana Health Inc.
    Inventor: Richard Hanbury
  • Patent number: 11517706
    Abstract: The invention discloses a functional electrical stimulation device including a headset, an electrical stimulation patch, an LED display screen, a circuit board, a rechargeable battery and a wireless terminal, and a method for using same. Two headphone bodies are symmetrically disposed on the headset, the circuit board and rechargeable battery are respectively mounted on the headphone bodies, and a music control button and an electrical stimulation mode and time control button are mounted on the two headphone bodies respectively. Two electrical stimulation patches are mounted on a middle portion of the headset, two LED display screens are respectively mounted on the two electrical stimulation patches. An audio decoder chip, a button control module, a power switch, an electrical stimulation generation module, a wireless communications module and a charging port are disposed on the circuit board, and the wireless terminal is independently disposed and in wireless communication with the circuit board.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 18, 2017
    Date of Patent: December 6, 2022
    Assignee: SOOCHOW UNIVERSITY
    Inventors: Shaolong Kuang, Xiao Cheng, Yinfang Fang, Yucun Tang, Fangxia Li, Shuai Wu, Shumei Yu
  • Patent number: 11517759
    Abstract: The invention relates to a device for generating electrical, magnetic, and/or electromagnetic signals, which, at different treatment frequencies, can be used to treat the human body, an electronic noise element (22) being provided as a means for providing a noise signal, which noise signal can be used for the selection of a treatment frequency, the properties of which electronic noise element are at least partly dependent on at least one biophysical radiation emission of the human body.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 11, 2018
    Date of Patent: December 6, 2022
    Assignee: HEALY INTERNATIONAL AG
    Inventors: Marcus Schmieke, Andreas Hilburg, Matthias Krzizan
  • Patent number: 11517707
    Abstract: A method of providing repetitive motion therapy comprising providing access to audio content; selecting audio content for delivery to a patient; performing an analysis on the selected audio content, the analysis identifying audio features of the selected audio content, and extracting rhythmic and structural features of the selected audio content; performing an entrainment suitability analysis on the selected audio content; generating entrainment assistance cue(s) to the selected audio content, the assistance cue(s) including a sound added to the audio content; applying the assistance cues to the audio content simultaneously with playing the selected audio content; evaluating a therapeutic effect on the patient, wherein the selected audio content continues to play when a therapeutic threshold is detected, and a second audio content is selected for delivery to the patient when a therapeutic threshold is not detected.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 15, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 6, 2022
    Assignee: MEDRHYTHMS, INC.
    Inventors: Owen McCarthy, Brian Harris, Alex Kalpaxis, David Guerette
  • Patent number: 11517704
    Abstract: A device comprising a wristband for housing an ammonium inhalant capsule whereby a wearer can self administer an ammonium inhalant to prevent syncope. The wristband comprises a sleeve for receiving an ammonium capsule and a cradle to fracture the capsule for release of the ammonia inhalant.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 6, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 6, 2022
    Assignee: Stat Capsule Inc.
    Inventor: Yuri Busiashvili
  • Patent number: 11511087
    Abstract: A dual double balloon catheter includes a catheter having a proximal end portion, a central portion and a distal end portion, and a secondary treatment balloon for a catheter. The catheter includes a plurality of lumens within the catheter extending from the proximal end portion, a plurality of inflatable balloons positioned in the central portion and a secondary treatment balloon communicatively associated with the distal end portion of the catheter, and the balloons and the secondary treatment balloon being communicatively connected with a corresponding one of the plurality of lumens to selectively inflate/deflate the corresponding inflatable balloon or to receive a radioactive dose or a therapeutic agent for a treatment.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 4, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 29, 2022
    Assignee: Best Medical International, Inc.
    Inventor: Manny R. Subramanian
  • Patent number: 11511125
    Abstract: Described are methods, devices, and systems for a novel, easy to use treatment for spasticity that does not involve medication. Methods and devices herein use low-frequency repetitive magnetic fields to enhance communication in the spinal nerve, thereby allowing improved relaxation, control, and coordination in a muscle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 22, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 29, 2022
    Assignee: Wave Neuroscience, Inc.
    Inventor: Yi Jin
  • Patent number: 11511072
    Abstract: An electronic device for providing meditation content corresponding to a stress level of a user, and an operating method thereof are provided. The electronic device includes a communication interface comprising communication circuitry, a memory, and at least one processor operatively coupled to the communication interface and the memory. The memory is configured to store instructions that, when executed, cause the processor to control the electronic device to: receive stress information from at least one collecting device using the communication interface, confirm meditation content corresponding to a stress level based on at least part of the received stress information, confirm at least one executing device related to the confirmed meditation content, and control the execution of the confirmed meditation content and the confirmed at least one executing device using the communication interface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 22, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 29, 2022
    Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Hoon Cho, Hongchun Chon