Patents by Inventor Alan N. Schwartz

Alan N. Schwartz has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Patent number: 11974951
    Abstract: A pair of eye goggles is provided. The pair of eye goggles includes a nosepiece fittable over a portion of a wearer's face, the nosepiece comprising one or more strands, at least a portion of the nosepiece comprising a phase change material, wherein a shape of the nosepiece changes upon an application of an energy to the phase changing portion to conform to the face; and a pair of eyepieces connected to the nosepiece.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 18, 2023
    Date of Patent: May 7, 2024
    Inventor: Alan N. Schwartz
  • Publication number: 20240041643
    Abstract: An apparatus that includes a mask is provided, the mask including one or more fixation anchoring devices, each configured to anchor to an at least one body part within a user, wherein the at least one body part includes at least a portion of one or more of an oral, nasal, pharyngeal, and a respiratory airway; one or more skin covers, each capable of covering at least a portion of the user's face, wherein one or more of the fixation anchoring devices are connected to one or more skin covers; one or more conduits, each connected to at least a portion of one of the skin covers, wherein one or more of a gas, solid, liquid, and gel are transmitted through each of the conduits; and one or more sealing pads, each connected to at least one of one of the skin coverings and one of the fixation anchoring devices.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 4, 2023
    Publication date: February 8, 2024
    Inventor: Alan N. Schwartz
  • Publication number: 20230368684
    Abstract: A system is described. A computing processor is configured to: represent recorded data capable of being consciously experienced by a user through a sensory form as an indexed sequence and maintain the indexed sequence; provide the recorded data to the user in the sensory form while the user is being monitored for a plurality of points in the indexed sequence at which electrical neural signals as evoked by the user in reaction to the providing of the recorded data, are captured; pair the signals with portions of the recorded data corresponding to the plurality of points at which the signals were evoked and reorganize the recorded data as categorized by the signals; measure and analyze the signals to identify one or more physiologic responses that fall below the levels of self-awareness and cognitive awareness; and inform the user of the one or more physiologic responses.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 25, 2023
    Publication date: November 16, 2023
    Inventor: Alan N. Schwartz
  • Patent number: 11806275
    Abstract: A penile condom catheter facilitates urine collection and egress of urinary fluids away from the body torso. A circumferential anchoring structure includes a web of flexible strands sized and arranged to at least partially contact a portion of the penis. The anchoring structure provides a flexible yet secure hold against the penis when flaccid and provides an increase in the hold when a longitudinal force is exerted upon the anchoring structure. An annularly circumferential penile skin covering material is affixed to the anchoring structure and sized to fit over at least a portion of the penis. A seal is affixed to at least a portion of a covering material, a covering material orifice, or an anchoring structure. A conduit is affixed to at least one of a covering material, a covering material orifice, a seal and an anchoring structure created to permit the flow of urinary fluid away.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 8, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 7, 2023
    Inventor: Alan N. Schwartz
  • Patent number: 11756442
    Abstract: A method is described. Recorded data capable of being consciously experienced by a user through a sensory form is represented as an indexed digital sequence and maintaining the indexed digital sequence in a storage device. The data is provided to the user via an output device capable of reproducing the data in the sensory form while the user is monitored with a monitor device for a point at which a non-conscious stimuli, as evoked by the user in reaction to the providing of the data, is captured. The stimuli as captured by the monitor device is paired using a processing device with a portion of the data corresponding to the point at which the stimuli was evoked and the data in the storage is reorganized with the processing device as categorized by the stimuli. The output device is configured to efficiently provide the reorganized data as personalized to the user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 21, 2022
    Date of Patent: September 12, 2023
    Inventor: Alan N. Schwartz
  • Publication number: 20230248574
    Abstract: A pair of eye goggles is provided. The pair of eye goggles includes a nosepiece fittable over a portion of a wearer's face, the nosepiece comprising one or more strands, at least a portion of the nosepiece comprising a phase change material, wherein a shape of the nosepiece changes upon an application of an energy to the phase changing portion to conform to the face; and a pair of eyepieces connected to the nosepiece.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 18, 2023
    Publication date: August 10, 2023
    Inventor: Alan N. Schwartz
  • Publication number: 20220361937
    Abstract: One embodiment provides a tightly targeted minimally invasive therapy (TTMIT) parathyroid tissue ablating instrument. A substance that cytotoxically ablates parathyroidal tissue during application in the parathyroidal tissue of therapeutically sufficient units of an electromagnetic energy having a frequency only ranging from ultraviolet to visible to near infrared. A substance delivery device is configured to introduce the substance into the parathyroidal tissue. An electromagnetic energy treatment device is configured to apply the therapeutically sufficient units of the electromagnetic energy within a thermal range that is non-cytotoxic to the parathyroidal tissue to the substance after the substance has been introduced by the substance delivery device. A sensor is configured to monitor activation of the substance as the therapeutically sufficient units of the electromagnetic energy are applied.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 24, 2022
    Publication date: November 17, 2022
    Inventor: Alan N. Schwartz
  • Publication number: 20220257420
    Abstract: A cover is disclosed. An airtight and watertight covering defines a space with at least one opening configured to circumferentially accommodate a portion of a body of a wearer and includes a flex layer including a plurality of resiliently elastic, malleable and deformable strands. A first gasket includes a malleable and resiliently deformable elastomer communicatively provided within an inner surface of the airtight and watertight covering within the space. The first gasket is configured to form an airtight and watertight seal against the portion of the body. The flex layer is deformable to allow the flex layer to transmute the magnitude of a force applied to the flex layer and to mitigate and to redirect the force respectively received against and away from the first gasket which thereby maintains the airtight and watertight seal against the portion of the body.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 5, 2022
    Publication date: August 18, 2022
    Inventor: Alan N. Schwartz
  • Patent number: 11406438
    Abstract: An instrument for therapeutically cytotoxically ablating parathyroidal tissue is disclosed. A substance is capable of transforming the parathyroid gland from overproduction of parathyroid hormone when the substance's quantity exceeds a set amount, and is capable of transforming the parathyroid gland from overproduction only when activated by application of sufficient units of an electromagnetic energy having a frequency ranging from 400 THz to 30 PHz when the substance's quantity is below the set amount. A delivery device is operable to introduce the substance into the parathyroidal tissue and to quantitatively limit the quantity to below the set amount. An energy device is operable to apply units of the electromagnetic energy after the substance has been introduced. A sensor is operable to monitor the activation of the substance as the electromagnetic energy is applied. The energy device is further operable to modulate applying the electromagnetic energy when the substance has been activated.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 5, 2018
    Date of Patent: August 9, 2022
    Inventor: Alan N. Schwartz
  • Patent number: 11337858
    Abstract: An ostomy pouching system is described. A baseplate includes a seal adapted to be securely placed on the skin about the perimeter of tissue defining a stoma incised into a patient. An ostomy reservoir forms a sealed space within which discharge can be received and held. A flex layer includes a seal that is airtight, watertight, or both, and which is structurally interposed between at least a portion of two or more of the skin, tissue, stoma, baseplate, and ostomy reservoir. The flex layer includes a resiliently and elastically malleable phase change material. The flex layer is deformable such that at least one portion of the flex layer can transmute the magnitude of a force applied to the flex layer and redirect the force. External forces acting upon at least one of the skin, tissue, stoma, baseplate, and ostomy reservoir are mitigated, transmuted, and isolated by the flex layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 28, 2018
    Date of Patent: May 24, 2022
    Inventor: Alan N. Schwartz
  • Publication number: 20210330369
    Abstract: A vaginal device is described. A conformable vaginal insert is shaped for insertion into a vaginal cavity of a female human. A contact point is configured to change a shape of the insert. A sensor is configured to measure and to relay characteristics of the vaginal cavity and the surrounding and supportive structures of the vaginal cavity. A processor is configured to control the contact point to adjust the shape of the insert, generate a treatment for the vaginal cavity and the surrounding structures of the vaginal cavity and the supportive structures of the vaginal cavity comprising a vaginal cavity profile generated from the measured characteristics, store the measured characteristics and the vaginal cavity profile, and based on the stored measured characteristics and the stored vaginal cavity profile, automatically modify the shape of the insert by control of the contact point to provide the treatment to the vaginal cavity.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 24, 2021
    Publication date: October 28, 2021
    Inventor: Alan N. Schwartz
  • Patent number: 11045246
    Abstract: The subject matter described herein is designed to facilitate and overcome the limitations of rehabilitation of body changes and to improve, retrain, and facilitate body functions micturition, defecation, sexual pleasure, anatomic prolapse, and their related bodily dysfunctions. The devices can include sensor, optics, send and receive transmitters, local positioning system (LPS) or sensors, computing devices and display elements and devices, which can be powered by bio-generating machines and devices.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 13, 2018
    Date of Patent: June 29, 2021
    Inventor: Alan N. Schwartz
  • Publication number: 20200107770
    Abstract: A local positioning system (LPS) that includes at least three local position tracking devices is described. Each local position tracking (LPT) device includes a device clock synchronized to a device time set and shared by the other device clocks, a transmitter transmitting messages synchronized to the device time, each message including a transmission time and known initial positional information, and a receiver. A living body image visualization includes time-sequential frames corresponding with the other LPT device. An output component includes a user clock set to a user time. A processor includes a processor clock set to a processor time. The processor generates a temporally-changing coordinate map based on transmission time, receipt time and the known initial positional information. The processor combines the time-sequential frames at the same time as the temporally-changing coordinate map into enhanced frames continually output. The device time, the user time, and the processor time are synchronized.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 15, 2019
    Publication date: April 9, 2020
    Inventor: Alan N. Schwartz
  • Publication number: 20200022641
    Abstract: Systems and methods are disclosed for locating the parathyroid. In one aspect, temporal variation among a plurality of images is evaluated and at least one image is enhanced according to the temporal variation. The image may be enhanced to one or both of reduce conspicuity of the thyroid gland and enhance conspicuity of the parathyroid gland. Some of the plurality of images may be adjusted in order to align representations of a target portions. Adjustments may be based locations of one or more organs or one or more artificial markers affixed to a living body in the plurality of images. A local positioning system (LPS), GPS, or other locating system may be used to position a living body, align the plurality of images, or to guide the positioning of objects relative to the living body. An elastomeric gel marker for imaging applications is also disclosed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 16, 2019
    Publication date: January 23, 2020
    Inventor: Alan N. Schwartz
  • Patent number: 10342476
    Abstract: Systems and methods are disclosed for locating the parathyroid. In one aspect, temporal variation among a plurality of images is evaluated and at least one image is enhanced according to the temporal variation. The image may be enhanced to one or both of reduce conspicuity of the thyroid gland and enhance conspicuity of the parathyroid gland. Some of the plurality of images may be adjusted in order to align representations of a target portions. Adjustments may be based locations of one or more organs or one or more artificial markers affixed to a living body in the plurality of images. A local positioning system (LPS), GPS, or other locating system may be used to position a living body, align the plurality of images, or to guide the positioning of objects relative to the living body. An elastomeric gel marker for imaging applications is also disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 9, 2017
    Date of Patent: July 9, 2019
    Inventor: Alan N. Schwartz
  • Publication number: 20190142627
    Abstract: A penile condom catheter facilitates urine collection and egress of urinary fluids away from the body torso. A circumferential anchoring structure includes a web of flexible strands sized and arranged to at least partially contact a portion of the penis. The anchoring structure provides a flexible yet secure hold against the penis when flaccid and provides an increase in the hold when a longitudinal force is exerted upon the anchoring structure. An annularly circumferential penile skin covering material is affixed to the anchoring structure and sized to fit over at least a portion of the penis. A seal is affixed to at least a portion of a covering material, a covering material orifice, or an anchoring structure. A conduit is affixed to at least one of a covering material, a covering material orifice, a seal and an anchoring structure created to permit the flow of urinary fluid away.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 8, 2019
    Publication date: May 16, 2019
    Inventor: Alan N. Schwartz
  • Publication number: 20190091068
    Abstract: An ostomy pouching system is described. A baseplate includes a seal adapted to be securely placed on the skin about the perimeter of tissue defining a stoma incised into a patient. An ostomy reservoir forms a sealed space within which discharge can be received and held. A flex layer includes a seal that is airtight, watertight, or both, and which is structurally interposed between at least a portion of two or more of the skin, tissue, stoma, baseplate, and ostomy reservoir. The flex layer includes a resiliently and elastically malleable phase change material. The flex layer is deformable such that at least one portion of the flex layer can transmute the magnitude of a force applied to the flex layer and redirect the force. External forces acting upon at least one of the skin, tissue, stoma, baseplate, and ostomy reservoir are mitigated, transmuted, and isolated by the flex layer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 28, 2018
    Publication date: March 28, 2019
    Inventor: Alan N. Schwartz
  • Publication number: 20190038334
    Abstract: An instrument for therapeutically cytotoxically ablating parathyroidal tissue is disclosed. A substance is capable of transforming the parathyroid gland from overproduction of parathyroid hormone when the substance's quantity exceeds a set amount, and is capable of transforming the parathyroid gland from overproduction only when activated by application of sufficient units of an electromagnetic energy having a frequency ranging from 400 THz to 30 PHz when the substance's quantity is below the set amount. A delivery device is operable to introduce the substance into the parathyroidal tissue and to quantitatively limit the quantity to below the set amount. An energy device is operable to apply units of the electromagnetic energy after the substance has been introduced. A sensor is operable to monitor the activation of the substance as the electromagnetic energy is applied. The energy device is further operable to modulate applying the electromagnetic energy when the substance has been activated.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 5, 2018
    Publication date: February 7, 2019
    Inventor: Alan N. Schwartz
  • Publication number: 20180200113
    Abstract: A pair of eye goggles is described. A strap can be fit removably around a head. A nosepiece can be fit over the nose. A pair of eyepieces includes a transparent lens and a frame. An airtight and watertight skin interface is adapted to fit securely against the wearer's skin. A flex layer includes a seal that is at least one of airtight and watertight and which is structurally interposed between at least a portion of two or more of the skin, the nosepiece, the eyepieces, the transparent lens, the frame, and the skin interface. The flex layer includes a phase change material that is resiliently and elastically malleable. The flex layer is deformable such that at least one portion can transmute the magnitude of a force applied and can redirect the force in at least one direction. External forces acting are at least one of mitigated, transmuted, and isolated.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 13, 2018
    Publication date: July 19, 2018
    Inventor: Alan N. Schwartz
  • Patent number: 9943443
    Abstract: A pair of eye goggles is described. The eye googles include a three axial adjustable nosepiece that can be fit over a wearer's nose including a plurality of unequal length strands on each side of the nosepiece with the strands comprising resilient properties different from the resilient properties included in the other strands in the plurality of strands on that side. The eye goggles also include a strap that can be fit removably around the wearer's head, and a pair of eyepieces. Each eyepiece includes a transparent lens that can be fit over one of the wearer's eyes, and a frame that surrounds the transparent lens to which the nosepiece and the strap are attached. The eye goggles also include a sealing pad formed on an inside-facing edge of the frame.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 17, 2015
    Date of Patent: April 17, 2018
    Inventor: Alan N. Schwartz