Abstract: An intelligent implant includes a component of an implantable prosthesis and an implantable reporting processor (IRP) associated with the implantable prosthesis. The IRP includes a housing having a casing and a cover coupled to the casing, an electronics assembly within the housing, and an antenna within the housing and coupled to the electronics assembly. The antenna is tuned to, and the electronics assembly is configured to enable communication through the antenna at both 2.45 GHZ and 403 MHZ (MICS channel). The antenna comprises a flat ribbon configured in a loop and having major surfaces. The antenna is encapsulated within the cover of the housing and is oriented therein with major surfaces of the antenna generally parallel with an inner surface of the cover.

Abstract: Auxiliary components for medical devices, and more specifically, sensing constructs that may be added to a medical device such as an implantable medical device to provide the medical device with sensing functionality. The auxiliary component is not a part of the medical device, but rather is associated with an existing medical device in a secure manner, and provides information about the medical device and/or the environment around the medical device when the device is implanted in a patient, and then transmits that information to a location outside of the patient for evaluation. Delivery systems for delivering the auxiliary components.

Abstract: An apparatus for predicting an outcome of a patient includes a processor, and a memory storing computer executable instructions, which when executed by the processor cause the processor to perform operations comprising obtaining patient kinematic data of the patient; deriving one or more patient kinematic features from the patient kinematic data; and determining the outcome based on the one or more patient kinematic features and at least one additional data element of the patient using an outcome model trained on a training set of kinematic features of the same type as the patient kinematic features and the at least one additional data element.

Abstract: A self-contained UAV sensor payload and on-board or off-board hardware and software for precision agriculture. The invention combines multiple cameras and navigation sensors to create a system for automatically collecting, geo-referencing, and stitching red, green, blue, and near infrared imagery and derived vegetation indices. The invention is able to produce all of these quantities in a single flight. The tight integration with integrated navigation sensors eliminates the need for integration with external sensors or avionics hardware and enables innovative solutions to image processing and analysis which greatly improve accuracy, processing speed, and reliability over alternative approaches.