Patents by Inventor Gabriele Nataneli
Gabriele Nataneli 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).
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Patent number: 11810473Abstract: A system and method of training how to use a medical device using an instrument such as a mock ultrasound probe or syringe to be tracked in 3D space with six degrees of freedom using an internal optical camera, a light source (e.g. infrared LEDs), and a display of markers arranged on a surface. By extracting corner information for each marker, a 3D transformation can be established, allowing the system to know the instrument's position and orientation in 3D space relative to that marker. Each marker also encodes a numerical value corresponding to its predetermined position and orientation on the surface, allowing the instrument to determine its own position and orientation relative to the surface. Thus, as long as the instrument is able to see at least one marker on an optical surface, the system will know its full 3D position and orientation relative to the whole optical surface.Type: GrantFiled: January 29, 2020Date of Patent: November 7, 2023Assignee: THE REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIAInventors: Matthew Wang, Kresimir Petrinec, Gabriele Nataneli, Eric Savitsky
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Patent number: 11769427Abstract: A training system to teach use of an ultrasound probe, the training system having a chamber defining an orifice, a shaft insertable into the orifice of the chamber, a marker positioned on the shaft at a distal end, a camera positioned to view the marker when inserted inside the chamber, and a processor operatively connected to the camera for processing a position and an orientation of the shaft based on the marker. The system provides a method for visualizing movement of the shaft from inside the chamber.Type: GrantFiled: November 8, 2022Date of Patent: September 26, 2023Assignee: THE REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIAInventors: Kresimir Petrinec, Gabriele Nataneli, Matthew Wang, Eric Savitsky
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Patent number: 11749137Abstract: A system and method for delivering psychomotor skill training, providing didactic instruction using an internet portal, tracking performance, and providing user feedback within a multisensory environment, serving as an integration for existing multimodal ultrasound training systems. This multisensory psychomotor skill training environment of the present invention would extend the existing described patented technologies by further adding realism through representation of virtual (digital) characters into a training scenario (e.g., pregnant patient), superimposing virtual (digital) guides or prompts onto actual real physical objects (e.g., anatomical landmarks or guides onto a mannequin or patient) embedding the training instruments within a broader virtual (digital) scenario (e.g., operating room). The ability to create these virtual, augmented, and mixed reality scenarios enables cost-effective, realistic, and improved training capabilities that mirror real-life training scenarios.Type: GrantFiled: January 15, 2021Date of Patent: September 5, 2023Assignee: THE REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIAInventors: Eric A. Savitsky, Gabriele Nataneli
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Patent number: 11627944Abstract: A system for creating customized learning content for ultrasound simulators using materials from an existing library of curated content including images, volumetric data sets, and metadata, or otherwise acquired, overcoming numerous challenges to ultrasound education and training, including the ability to seamlessly create real-patient based ultrasound training curriculum, the creation of an expansive library that that represents multiple pathologic conditions, and the dissemination of training content to multiple users in an asynchronous manner.Type: GrantFiled: September 28, 2016Date of Patent: April 18, 2023Assignee: THE REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIAInventors: Eric Savitsky, Gabriele Nataneli, Kresimir Petrinec
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Patent number: 11631342Abstract: An ultrasound system including an ultrasound machine and an ultrasound probe. The ultrasound probe includes an ultrasound transducer, ultrasound circuitry, a six degree of freedom (6-DOF) sensor, and a probe housing. The probe housing encases the ultrasound transducer and the 6-DOF sensor. By embedding motion-sensing technology directly within the housing of the ultrasound transducer, the position and orientation of the ultrasound probe can be tracked in an automated manner in relation to an indicator mark on the ultrasound screen. This allows assisting technologies to mitigate human error that arises from misalignment of the transducer indicator.Type: GrantFiled: July 13, 2021Date of Patent: April 18, 2023Assignee: THE REGENTS OF UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIAInventors: Eric Savitsky, Dan Katz, Gabriele Nataneli
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Patent number: 11600201Abstract: A system and method for converting a commercial diagnostic ultrasound transducer into a medical training device that is used for simulated ultrasound training; or a system and method for adding a training option to a standard ultrasound diagnostic system by attaching a motion sensor accessory to the commercial diagnostic ultrasound transducer.Type: GrantFiled: July 27, 2020Date of Patent: March 7, 2023Assignee: THE REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIAInventors: Eric Savitsky, Gabriele Nataneli
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Publication number: 20230061192Abstract: A training system to teach use of an ultrasound probe, the training system having a chamber defining an orifice, a shaft insertable into the orifice of the chamber, a marker positioned on the shaft at a distal end, a camera positioned to view the marker when inserted inside the chamber, and a processor operatively connected to the camera for processing a position and an orientation of the shaft based on the marker. The system provides a method for visualizing movement of the shaft from inside the chamber.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 8, 2022Publication date: March 2, 2023Applicant: The Regents of the University of CaliforniaInventors: Kresimir Petrinec, Gabriele Nataneli, Matthew Wang, Eric Savitsky
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Patent number: 11594150Abstract: A system and method for extended spectrum ultrasound training using tags placed on animate and/or inanimate objects. The system combines the use of tags, a reader, and a 3-DOF motion tracker to train a user in finding image windows and optimal image views in an ultrasound simulation environment.Type: GrantFiled: April 21, 2022Date of Patent: February 28, 2023Assignee: THE REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIAInventors: Eric Savitsky, Gabriele Nataneli, Dan Katz
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Patent number: 11495142Abstract: A training system to teach use of an ultrasound probe, the training system having a chamber defining an orifice, a shaft insertable into the orifice of the chamber, a marker positioned on the shaft at a distal end, a camera positioned to view the marker when inserted inside the chamber, and a processor operatively connected to the camera for processing a position and an orientation of the shaft based on the marker. The system provides a method for visualizing movement of the shaft from inside the chamber.Type: GrantFiled: January 30, 2020Date of Patent: November 8, 2022Assignee: THE REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIAInventors: Kresimir Petrinec, Gabriele Nataneli, Matthew Wang, Eric Savitsky
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Patent number: 11315439Abstract: A system and method for extended spectrum ultrasound training using tags placed on animate and/or inanimate objects. The system combines the use of tags, a reader, and a 3-DOF motion tracker to train a user in finding image windows and optimal image views in an ultrasound simulation environment.Type: GrantFiled: August 12, 2019Date of Patent: April 26, 2022Assignee: SONOSIM, INC.Inventors: Eric Savitsky, Gabriele Nataneli, Dan Katz
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Patent number: 11120709Abstract: A system and method that improves the speed and efficiency through which ultrasound practitioners acquire and develop essential basic ultrasound skills in a simulated environment without the need of actual patients or subjects. The system utilizes a simulator with an input device that manipulates a virtual transducer probe in a simulated 3D space to cut a slice through a basic shape. A 2D section of the cut plane is also displayed so that the practitioner can learn to relate 2D section with their 3D objects cut in cross-section.Type: GrantFiled: January 15, 2018Date of Patent: September 14, 2021Assignee: SONOSIM, INC.Inventors: Eric Savitsky, Gabriele Nataneli, Dan Katz, Kresimir Petrinec
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Patent number: 11062624Abstract: An ultrasound system including an ultrasound machine and an ultrasound probe. The ultrasound probe includes an ultrasound transducer, ultrasound circuitry, a six degree of freedom (6-DOF) sensor, and a probe housing. The probe housing encases the ultrasound transducer and the 6-DOF sensor. By embedding motion-sensing technology directly within the housing of the ultrasound transducer, the position and orientation of the ultrasound probe can be tracked in an automated manner in relation to an indicator mark on the ultrasound screen. This allows assisting technologies to mitigate human error that arises from misalignment of the transducer indicator.Type: GrantFiled: July 17, 2018Date of Patent: July 13, 2021Assignee: THE REGENTS OF UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIAInventors: Eric Savitsky, Dan Katz, Gabriele Nataneli
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Publication number: 20210134186Abstract: A system and method for delivering psychomotor skill training, providing didactic instruction using an internet portal, tracking performance, and providing user feedback within a multisensory environment, serving as an integration for existing multimodal ultrasound training systems. This multisensory psychomotor skill training environment of the present invention would extend the existing described patented technologies by further adding realism through representation of virtual (digital) characters into a training scenario (e.g., pregnant patient), superimposing virtual (digital) guides or prompts onto actual real physical objects (e.g., anatomical landmarks or guides onto a mannequin or patient) embedding the training instruments within a broader virtual (digital) scenario (e.g., operating room). The ability to create these virtual, augmented, and mixed reality scenarios enables cost-effective, realistic, and improved training capabilities that mirror real-life training scenarios.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 15, 2021Publication date: May 6, 2021Inventors: Eric A. Savitsky, Gabriele Nataneli
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Patent number: 10896628Abstract: A system and method for delivering psychomotor skill training, providing didactic instruction using an internet portal, tracking performance, and providing user feedback within a multisensory environment, serving as an integration for existing multimodal ultrasound training systems. This multisensory psychomotor skill training environment of the present invention would extend the existing described patented technologies by further adding realism through representation of virtual (digital) characters into a training scenario (e.g., pregnant patient), superimposing virtual (digital) guides or prompts onto actual real physical objects (e.g., anatomical landmarks or guides onto a mannequin or patient) embedding the training instruments within a broader virtual (digital) scenario (e.g., operating room). The ability to create these virtual, augmented, and mixed reality scenarios enables cost-effective, realistic, and improved training capabilities that mirror real-life training scenarios.Type: GrantFiled: January 25, 2018Date of Patent: January 19, 2021Assignee: SONOSIM, INC.Inventors: Eric A. Savitsky, Gabriele Nataneli
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Publication number: 20200242972Abstract: A training system to teach use of an ultrasound probe, the training system having a chamber defining an orifice, a shaft insertable into the orifice of the chamber, a marker positioned on the shaft at a distal end, a camera positioned to view the marker when inserted inside the chamber, and a processor operatively connected to the camera for processing a position and an orientation of the shaft based on the marker. The system provides a method for visualizing movement of the shaft from inside the chamber.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 30, 2020Publication date: July 30, 2020Inventors: Kresimir Petrinec, Gabriele Nataneli, Matthew Wang, Eric Savitsky
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Publication number: 20200242971Abstract: A system and method of training how to se a medical device using an instrument such as a mock ultrasound probe or syringe to be tracked in 3D space with six degrees of freedom using an internal optical camera, a light source (e.g. infrared LEDs), and a display of markers arranged on a surface. By extracting corner information for each marker, a 3D transformation can be established, allowing the system to know the instrument's position and orientation in 3D space relative to that marker. Each marker also encodes a numerical value corresponding to its predetermined position and orientation on the surface, allowing the instrument to determine its own position and orientation relative to the surface. Thus, as long as the instrument is able to see at least one marker on an optical surface, the system will know its full 3D position and orientation relative to the whole optical surface.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 29, 2020Publication date: July 30, 2020Inventors: Matthew Wang, Kresimir Petrinec, Gabriele Nataneli, Eric Savitsky
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Patent number: 10726741Abstract: A system and method for converting a commercial diagnostic ultrasound transducer into a medical training device that is used for simulated ultrasound training; or a system and method for adding a training option to a standard ultrasound diagnostic system by attaching a motion sensor accessory to the commercial diagnostic ultrasound transducer.Type: GrantFiled: June 30, 2016Date of Patent: July 28, 2020Assignee: THE REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIAInventors: Eric Savitsky, Gabriele Nataneli
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Publication number: 20190371204Abstract: A system and method for extended spectrum ultrasound training using tags placed on animate and/or inanimate objects. The system combines the use of tags, a reader, and a 3-DOF motion tracker to train a user in finding image windows and optimal image views in an ultrasound simulation environment.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 12, 2019Publication date: December 5, 2019Inventors: Eric Savitsky, Gabriele Nataneli, Dan Katz
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Patent number: 10424225Abstract: A method for training an ultrasound user with a hand-held device having one or more first sensors to detect angular orientation of the device in one or more dimensions, and at least one two-dimensional surface device having one or more second sensors to detect translational position of the hand-held device in one or more directions, which communicates the angular orientation data from the hand-held device and the translational position data from the at least one surface device to a computer to display a virtual environment with a virtual hand-held device that moves in correlation with the hand-held device based on the angular orientation data from the hand-held device and the translational position data from the at least one surface device.Type: GrantFiled: August 21, 2017Date of Patent: September 24, 2019Assignee: SONOSIM, INC.Inventors: Gabriele Nataneli, Eric Savitsky
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Patent number: 10380920Abstract: A method and system for ultrasound simulation for training purposes. The system comprises a probe assembly, an electronic tag, and a translation sensor. The probe assembly comprises an orientation sensor to detect movement with three degrees of freedom. The translation sensor offers two additional degrees of freedom of movement detection. The probe assembly also has a transponder reader that when placed adjacent to the electronic tag, can communicate with a transponder within the electronic tag. Electronic tag has adhesive that allows the electronic tag to be a fixed to a subject, whether a live being or an inanimate mannequin. The information collected from the transponder is transmitted to the computing device to provide a simulated environment that mimics the use of an actual ultrasound probe to give the user a realistic experience using an ultrasound machine.Type: GrantFiled: February 13, 2015Date of Patent: August 13, 2019Assignee: SONOSIM, INC.Inventors: Eric Savitsky, Gabriele Nataneli, Dan Katz