Patents Examined by Yoojin Lee
  • Patent number: 9706955
    Abstract: Provided is a biological state assessment device for assessing biological state, such as mood or emotions, using non-invasive biophotonic measurement technology. The present invention includes a light irradiation unit (1041), a light-receiving unit (1061), and an inputting means (112). A subject (800) is presented with a plurality of different problems (first problem, second problem), and a biological signal in the interior of the subject is calculated from the intensity of light received by the light-receiving unit (1061). Subjective information about the subject is accepted by the inputting means (112). The difference is calculated between the subjective information and the relative value of the biological signal of the measurement point for the first problem and the biological signal of the measurement point for the second problem, and the result is displayed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 21, 2012
    Date of Patent: July 18, 2017
    Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.
    Inventors: Hirokazu Atsumori, Masashi Kiguchi
  • Patent number: 9642566
    Abstract: A flexible embedded sensor array includes a first substrate, an electrically conductive pad disposed on at least a portion of the first substrate, and a plurality of sensors disposed on at least a portion of electrically conductive pads. Further, the flexible embedded sensor array includes an electrically non-conductive adhesive material disposed in proximity to one or more of the plurality of sensors, a second substrate, and an electrical contact disposed between at least a portion of the sensor and at least a portion of the second substrate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 4, 2013
    Date of Patent: May 9, 2017
    Assignee: General Electric Company
    Inventors: Christopher James Kapusta, Eric Patrick Davis, Jason Harris Karp
  • Patent number: 9597021
    Abstract: A light based method and technique for measuring the static and average plasma glucose concentration over a prolonged period of time. More specifically, the disclosure relates to a method that utilizes mathematical analysis of appendage mobile LED flash IR light transmittance, absorption and scattering by using high resolution mobile camera data to estimate the concentration of glucose and glycated hemoglobin (HbA1c) in millimoles per liter (mmol/L).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 14, 2015
    Date of Patent: March 21, 2017
    Assignee: ANALYTICS FOR LIFE
    Inventors: Sunny Gupta, Timothy Burton, Matthew Howe-Patterson
  • Patent number: 9597020
    Abstract: The inventive concept relates to a measuring device. The measuring device irradiates a first beam including a polarization component and a second beam which is a wavelength swept laser having a coherence length previously set and can measure a glucose concentration of an aqueous humor by measuring an optical path length and the rotation amount of a polarization plane respectively from a first output beam and a second output beam being output from an eye.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 16, 2013
    Date of Patent: March 21, 2017
    Assignee: ELECTRONICS AND TELECOMMUNICATIONS RESEARCH INSTITUTE
    Inventor: Hyun Woo Song
  • Patent number: 9592000
    Abstract: A biosensor including light emitting elements and a light receiving element disposed on a principal surface of a wiring board; a light shielding portion disposed between a light-emitting-element sealing portion and a light-receiving-element sealing portion; a base medium having light transmitting properties, disposed in parallel with the wiring board with the light shielding portion therebetween; an adhesion layer having light transmitting properties that bonds the base medium with the light-emitting-element sealing portion, the light-receiving-element sealing portion, and the light shielding portion; and a first electrocardiograph electrode attached to a principal surface of the base medium. Both end portions of the adhesion layer and both end portions of the base medium are disposed such that they overlap neither of the light-receiving-element sealing portion nor the light-emitting-element sealing portion when viewed from a direction normal to the principal surface of the wiring board.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 18, 2014
    Date of Patent: March 14, 2017
    Assignee: MURATA MANUFACTURING CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Toru Shimuta, Yasutaka Fujii
  • Patent number: 9549695
    Abstract: A parameter affecting the absorptivity or the concentration of blood in tissue is measured using a semiconductor light source (7) and a light detector (8). The semiconductor light source (7) is operated at several operating conditions, at which it has different temperatures and therefore different emission spectra. In particular, the operating conditions correspond to different time intervals after switching the light source (7) on, while the light source (7) has not yet reached thermal equilibrium. This allows to perform a spectroscopic measurement using one light source only, which increases accuracy and reduces device cost.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 26, 2010
    Date of Patent: January 24, 2017
    Assignee: BIOVOTION AG
    Inventors: Andreas Caduff, Hans-Joachim Krebs, Mark Stuart Talary, Pavel Zakharov
  • Patent number: 9451920
    Abstract: A system for measuring of arterial and venous blood constituent concentration based first on measuring cardiac blood flow balance parameter between the right chamber of the heart and the left chamber of the heart, which includes a sensor device for measuring one of blood pressure and blood flow rate and blood constituent concentration of a patient so as to generate an arterial pulse signal. A processing unit is responsive to the arterial pulse signal for generating full arterial pulse plethysmography waveforms, arterio-venous pulse plethysmography waveforms, and balance parameters. A computational device that is responsive to plethysmography waveforms generating a plurality of state space linear transfer functions by applying system identification between plethysmography waveforms at various wavelengths representing a plurality of models of the blood constituent concentration, including oxygen, carbon dioxide, hemoglobin, and glucose, and displaying related useful information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 24, 2013
    Date of Patent: September 27, 2016
    Inventor: Mohammad Khair