Patents Examined by Wen W. Huang
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Patent number: 12389221Abstract: There is provided a mobile terminal capable of being protected against unauthorized use by a third party without using a dedicated key device. A plurality of mobile terminals are previously registered mutually. When unlocked among them, one mobile terminal communicates with another mobile terminal in a communication range of short-range wireless communications, unlocks the above another mobile terminal, and when out of the communication range, locks it again.Type: GrantFiled: January 29, 2024Date of Patent: August 12, 2025Assignee: MAXELL, LTD.Inventors: Masayuki Hirabayashi, Hideo Nishijima
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Patent number: 12376923Abstract: A system is provided including a reclosable storage container comprising an interior sterile environment. The system also includes a sterile teleoperated component of a teleoperated surgical manipulator assembly in the interior sterile environment. A communications interface enables communication between a device outside the storage container and the component inside the storage container. A viewing window allows the stored component to be seen through the storage container. Multiple storage containers can be moved and stored. In an operating room, the storage container is opened, and the component is removed and assembled into the teleoperated surgical assembly.Type: GrantFiled: October 14, 2019Date of Patent: August 5, 2025Assignee: INTUITIVE SURGICAL OPERATIONS, INC.Inventors: John Ryan Steger, Daniel H. Gomez
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Patent number: 12357592Abstract: Disclosed herein are systems, media, and methods for processing and aligning breast images and uses thereof. The processes disclosed herein may be used to diagnose, predict, and monitor the status or outcome of breast density masking, and breast cancer in a subject, and methods of treating the same.Type: GrantFiled: January 24, 2019Date of Patent: July 15, 2025Inventors: Per Hall, Mikael Eriksson
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Patent number: 12363635Abstract: The application discloses example methods and apparatuses. One example method includes receiving, by a terminal, a power saving signal sent by a network device, wherein the power saving signal is used to indicate statuses of the terminal on N frequency resource units, and N is an integer greater than 1. The terminal then determines the statuses of the terminal on the N frequency resource units based on the power saving signal. By applying the technical solutions, the statuses of the terminal on the plurality of frequency resource units are indicated by using one power saving signal, without the need to correspondingly indicate the statuses of the terminal on the plurality of frequency resource units by using a plurality of power saving signals. This can reduce signaling overheads.Type: GrantFiled: March 30, 2020Date of Patent: July 15, 2025Assignee: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd.Inventors: Yifan Xue, Jian Wang
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Patent number: 12354364Abstract: Cameras capture time-stamped images of predefined areas. At least one image includes a representation of multiple individuals in a group of individuals. Attributes retained with each individual are combined with a limb and pose recognition to properly identify each individual of the group within the image.Type: GrantFiled: April 23, 2021Date of Patent: July 8, 2025Assignee: NCR Voyix CorporationInventors: Brent Vance Zucker, Adam Justin Lieberman, Nathan Somavarapu
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Patent number: 12347186Abstract: Embodiments described include apparatuses, computer program products, and methods for automatic proof of delivery, for example by capturing and decoding a visual indicia. Some embodiments minimize possibilities of errors, false proof, and/or the like in item delivery. At least one embodiment enables automatic proof of delivery in a multi-sensor environment. Example embodiments are configured for capturing an image data object set utilizing at least one of an image sensor set, where the image data object set includes a captured-indicia image data object including a visual indicia; decoding the visual indicia to identify delivery information; identifying a delivery proof image data object from the image data object set; and processing the delivery proof image data object for use as a proof of delivery. Some embodiments include a near-field image sensor for capturing the delivery proof image data object and a far-field sensor for capturing the captured-indicia image data object.Type: GrantFiled: March 11, 2024Date of Patent: July 1, 2025Assignee: Hand Held Products, Inc.Inventors: Manjul Bizoara, David M Wilz, Wei Zhao, Jingzhe Zhang
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Patent number: 12347546Abstract: The invention relates to a method for determining whether a tooth is correctly shaped and oriented to avoid interference with another tooth using virtual articulation. The method comprises a) receiving data indicative of a virtual dentition of an oral cavity of a patient by a computing device, the data indicative of the virtual dentition including data indicative of at least one of a virtual mandibular arch representing a mandibular arch of the patient or a virtual maxillary arch representing a maxillary arch of the patient; b) receiving data indicating a selected point on the virtual dentition of the oral cavity; and c) determining a tangent vector indicating a direction of motion of the selected point and determining whether the orientation of a tooth of the virtual dentition or the shape of the tooth is correctly shaped and oriented based on the determined tangent vector, wherein the tangent vector is based on a rotational axis of the virtual mandibular arch.Type: GrantFiled: July 17, 2020Date of Patent: July 1, 2025Assignee: Solventum Intellectual Properties CompanyInventors: Alberto Alvarez, Richard E. Raby
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Patent number: 12347108Abstract: A method includes obtaining functional and anatomical image data sets from a subject acquired at different dates. The method includes receiving a volumetric coordinate of interest in a specified functional and anatomical image data set. The method includes generating a 3D feature matching map for at least one functional feature layer type and for at least one anatomical feature layer type for each non-specified functional and anatomical image data set relative to the specified functional and anatomical image data set utilizing the volumetric coordinate of interest. The method includes generating a best matching coordinate and a corresponding confidence metric value for each 3D feature matching map.Type: GrantFiled: January 5, 2022Date of Patent: July 1, 2025Assignee: GE PRECISION HEALTHCARE LLCInventor: Raz Carmi
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Patent number: 12342482Abstract: An electronic device includes: a housing including a mesh configured to communicate between an external space of the housing and an internal space of the housing; and a protecter overlapping part of the mesh in plan view of the mesh. The protecter includes a first portion extending alongside the mesh without being in contact with the mesh and a second portion protruding toward the mesh and being in contact with the mesh at a distal end of the second portion.Type: GrantFiled: March 21, 2024Date of Patent: June 24, 2025Assignee: KYOCERA CorporationInventor: Kenji Ishibashi
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Patent number: 12329597Abstract: A method for determining biting occlusion of a patient's teeth including generating a first 3D digital model of the patient's lower arch in non-occlusion. A second 3D digital model of the patient's upper arch in non-occlusion may be generated. A third 3D digital model of the patient's upper and lower arches in biting occlusion may be generated. The first and second 3D digital models May be aligned with corresponding teeth of the third 3D digital model to generate a fourth 3D model of the patient's teeth in biting occlusion.Type: GrantFiled: April 8, 2022Date of Patent: June 17, 2025Assignee: ALIGN TECHNOLOGY, INC.Inventors: Avi Kopelman, John Y. Morton
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Patent number: 12323492Abstract: Systems, devices, and methods are provided for the management of multiple sensor control devices and/or multiple reader devices in an in vivo analyte monitoring environment, and also for resolving conflicts when merging data collected by different reader devices.Type: GrantFiled: February 14, 2023Date of Patent: June 3, 2025Assignee: ABBOTT DIABETES CARE INC.Inventors: Mark Sloan, Nathan C. Crouther, Glenn Berman, Gil Porat, Michael R. Love
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Apparatus and method for imaging examination of cells on surface of living tissue using moxifloxacin
Patent number: 12320732Abstract: An apparatus for imaging examination of cells on a surface of living tissue using moxifloxacin. includes: a light source emitting light towards living tissue stained with moxifloxacin; a photographing unit photographing the living tissue subjected to fluorescence excitation by the light emitted from the light source; a lens unit controlling the light emitted from the light source or a fluorescence path of moxifloxacin excited by the light; an objective lens controlling a focus of the photographing unit; an active lens disposed between the objective lens and the photographing unit and changing a focal position on the living tissue; and an image generator performing image processing of a cell image of the living tissue photographed by the photographing unit to generate an in-focus image, in which the entirety of the cell image is in focus.Type: GrantFiled: January 24, 2022Date of Patent: June 3, 2025Assignees: POSTECH Research and Business Development Foundation, SEOUL NATIONAL UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL, UNIVERSITY INDUSTRY FOUNDATION, YONSEI UNIVERSITY WONJU CAMPUSInventors: Ki Hean Kim, Jung Bin Lee, Seong Han Kim, Chang Ho Yoon, Sejung Yang -
Patent number: 12315621Abstract: Disclosed are systems and methods associated with myocardial ultrasonic fingerprinting using a radiomics-based approach and high-throughput computing on static cardiac ultrasound images. Radiomic features can be extracted from an ultrasound image associated with a patient. Myocardial characteristics are then determined by using the extracted features as inputs into trained phenotyping models. A clinical significance associated with the patient can then be interpreted based at least in part on the myocardial characteristics and the extracted radiomic features.Type: GrantFiled: June 11, 2020Date of Patent: May 27, 2025Assignee: RUTGERS, THE STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW JERSEYInventors: Partho P. Sengupta, Sirish Shrestha, Nobuyuki Kagiyama
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Patent number: 12289706Abstract: This application provides a positioning method and an apparatus. The method includes: A location management device provides assistance information for a terminal device, where the assistance information includes information about one or more cells used for positioning of the terminal device and reference signal configuration information of each of the one or more cells. The location management device provides a first request message for the terminal device, where the first request message includes measurement reporting configuration information. The location management device receives a reference signal measurement result of each of the one or more cells from the terminal device, where the reference signal measurement result is obtained based on the measurement reporting configuration information. The location management device obtains a DAOD of the terminal device relative to each of the one or more cells based on the reference signal measurement result.Type: GrantFiled: September 27, 2021Date of Patent: April 29, 2025Assignee: HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD.Inventor: Yi Wang
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Patent number: 12257073Abstract: A method of identifying fluid retention in a body part of the patient by directly or indirectly measuring a first parameter relating to a size of a body part of the patient to obtain an actual measurement of the body part, obtaining an estimated measurement of said first parameter relating to the size of the body part of the patient by measuring alternative predefined parameters of the patient, wherein said estimated measurement is calculated based on a mathematical relationship between said alternative parameters and the size of the body part; and correlating the actual and estimated measurements of the body part of the patient to assess any fluid retention in the body part.Type: GrantFiled: August 29, 2019Date of Patent: March 25, 2025Assignee: HEARTFELT TECHNOLOGIES LTD.Inventors: Shamus Louis Godfrey Husheer, Oriane Elisabeth Chausiaux, Gareth Paul Williams
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Patent number: 12257429Abstract: A system and method for applying a low strength, low frequency magnetic field therapy to biological tissues. A coil is excited with a low frequency oscillating current, e.g., 10-1000 Hz. The coil is, e.g., 5-200 turns, having a diameter of 2-20 mm, and produces a magnetic field strength of about 0.01-5 mTelsa at a distance of 1 cm from the coil, or a cover over the coil, into the tissue. The current is preferably controlled by a smartphone or other programmable device controlled by a downloadable app in accordance with a PEMF program which may be separately downloaded or updated, and provided through an audio jack. Alternately, a digital interface and/or wireless interface may control the current. An app on the smartphone may be used to control the frequency, amplitude/envelope modulation, waveform, duration, etc. of the oscillation. The coil may be in mineral housing with a simple filter, and TRRS-type audio jack.Type: GrantFiled: November 27, 2023Date of Patent: March 25, 2025Assignee: Mannavibes, Inc.Inventor: Francis Hochstenbach
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Patent number: 12235429Abstract: An apparatus is proposed for identifying respective cover slip regions of respective cover slips having respective tissue sections on a specimen slide, which has multiple optical identifiers. The apparatus includes a planar light source, an image acquisition unit, a holding unit for positioning the specimen slide between the planar light source and the image acquisition unit, a slit diaphragm, which has multiple opening slits, reversibly positionable between the planar light source and the specimen slide, and an illumination unit, which is designed to illuminate that surface of the specimen slide which faces toward the image acquisition unit. Furthermore, the apparatus includes a monitoring unit which is designed, on the basis of a completely illuminated transmitted light image, an incident light image, and a partially darkened transmitted light image, to assign respective tissue sections to respective optical identifiers.Type: GrantFiled: December 17, 2020Date of Patent: February 25, 2025Assignee: EUROIMMUN MEDIZINISCHE LABORDIAGNOSTIKA AGInventors: Christian Feirer, Erik Bernitt-Ringering, Martin Rateike, Simon Schwab, Winfried Stöcker
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Patent number: 12231187Abstract: A method for providing an electronic device includes manufacturing the electronic device at a manufacturing location, wherein manufacturing the electronic device includes connecting a wireless receiver system to the electronic device. The method further includes packaging the electronic device at a packaging location. The method further includes wirelessly transmitting data to the electronic device at a data transmission site, wherein wirelessly transmitting the data to the electronic device is performed by transferring data via near field magnetic induction utilizing a wireless transmission system and transmitting data via an out of band communications system, the wireless transmission system configured to magnetically connect with the wireless receiver system associated with the electronic device.Type: GrantFiled: October 15, 2021Date of Patent: February 18, 2025Assignee: NuCurrent, Inc.Inventors: Jason Luzinski, Michael Katz, Mark Melone
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Patent number: 12220272Abstract: Methods and systems are provided for extracting cardiac frequency angiographic phenomena for an unconstrained vascular object from an angiographic study. In one example, a computer may obtain a series of angiographic image frames obtained at a rate faster than cardiac frequency. Each image frame may comprise a plurality of pixels, and each pixel may have a corresponding intensity. The computer may apply an optical flow technique to the angiographic image frames to generate a plurality of paths corresponding to a displacement of respective pixels from image frame to image frame. The computer may further generate a spatiotemporal reconstruction of cardiac frequency angiographic phenomena based on the plurality of paths and the corresponding intensities associated with respective pixels of the paths, and output for display the spatiotemporal reconstruction of cardiac frequency angiographic phenomena in one or more images.Type: GrantFiled: May 12, 2021Date of Patent: February 11, 2025Assignee: Angiowave Imaging, Inc.Inventors: William E. Butler, Hector Andrade-Loarca
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Patent number: 12224597Abstract: A transaction device may include a power reception component configured to receive power from an external device with which the transaction device is to interact to perform a transaction. The transaction device may include a secure element configured to perform the transaction using the power received from the external device. The transaction device may include one or more peripheral components configured to perform one or more operations other than the transaction. The transaction device may include a power management component configured to determine at least one operation, of the one or more operations, to be performed in association with the transaction, and to route power received from the external device to at least one peripheral component, of the one or more peripheral components, capable of performing the at least one operation.Type: GrantFiled: October 16, 2023Date of Patent: February 11, 2025Assignee: Capital One Services, LLCInventors: Adam Koeppel, Tyler Locke