Patents by Inventor Ori Braun
Ori Braun 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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Publication number: 20230074078Abstract: A sprinkler head for attaching to a stem of a sprinkler, the sprinkler head having a round or polygonal shaped perimeter and comprising a directional nozzle array on the perimeter of the sprinkler head, the directional nozzle array comprises a single nozzle or a stack of nozzles each nozzle having an orifice facing a specific radial direction; the directional nozzle array being in fluid connection with a conduit through the stem for providing irrigation in the radial direction; wherein the directional nozzle array is provided with a dedicated regulator independently configurable by the user for regulating water flow in the specific radial direction over a range from zero when fully closed to a maximum range when fully open.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 6, 2020Publication date: March 9, 2023Inventor: Ori BRAUN
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Publication number: 20230046275Abstract: Methods of reducing oxidative damage to an eye of a subject are provided. Aspects of the method include intravitreal injection an antioxidant composition consisting essentially of a non-reducing sugar or a hydrate thereof. In some embodiments, the non-reducing sugar is trehalose. The methods can further include surgical removal of at least a portion of the subject's vitreous humor during a vitrectomy. Also provided are ophthalmic compositions, kits and pre-loaded injection devices for use in vitrectomy surgery which find use in the subject methods.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 24, 2022Publication date: February 16, 2023Inventors: Ori BRAUN, Martin G. O'TOOLE, Shlomit SCHAAL
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Patent number: 11406591Abstract: Methods of reducing oxidative damage to an eye of a subject are provided. Aspects of the method include intravitreal injection an antioxidant composition consisting essentially of a non-reducing sugar or a hydrate thereof. In some embodiments, the non-reducing sugar is trehalose. The methods can further include surgical removal of at least a portion of the subject's vitreous humor during a vitrectomy. Also provided are ophthalmic compositions, kits and pre-loaded injection devices for use in vitrectomy surgery which find use in the subject methods.Type: GrantFiled: February 8, 2016Date of Patent: August 9, 2022Assignee: UNIVERSITY OF LOUISVILLE RESEARCH FOUNDATION, INC.Inventors: Ori Braun, Martin G. O'Toole, Shlomit Schaal
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Patent number: 10102334Abstract: A system and method for automatically navigating an in vivo imaging capsule in a body lumen. The system comprises an imaging capsule including an imager, optional pressure sensor for producing data of forces acting on the imaging capsule in vivo, and a transmitter to transmit image, positioning and pressure data from the capsule to an external unit. A positioning system for providing current position data of the capsule in vivo may be included in the capsule and/or external to it. External magnets may generate a magnetic field to scan a body lumen by causing a predetermined motion pattern of the imaging capsule within a region proximate to its current position, and generate a driving force to propel the imaging capsule according to a calculated target direction vector. A processor may calculate a target direction vector for propelling the imaging capsule based, on unique patterns identifiable in one or more images.Type: GrantFiled: December 29, 2011Date of Patent: October 16, 2018Assignee: GIVEN IMAGING LTD.Inventors: Elisha Rabinovitz, Ori Braun, Yaniv Ben Zriham, Jeremy Pinchas Gerber, Gavriel J. Iddan, Eli Horn
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Publication number: 20180036232Abstract: Methods of reducing oxidative damage to an eye of a subject are provided. Aspects of the method include intravitreal injection an antioxidant composition consisting essentially of a non-reducing sugar or a hydrate thereof. In some embodiments, the non-reducing sugar is trehalose. The methods can further include surgical removal of at least a portion of the subject's vitreous humor during a vitrectomy. Also provided are ophthalmic compositions, kits and pre-loaded injection devices for use in vitrectomy surgery which find use in the subject methods.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 8, 2016Publication date: February 8, 2018Inventors: Ori BRAUN, Martin G. O'TOOLE, Shlomit SCHAAL
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Patent number: 9724499Abstract: A differential pressure regulating device is provided for controlling in-vivo pressure in a body, and in particularly in a heart. The device may include a shunt being positioned between two or more lumens in a body, to enable fluids to flow between the lumens, and an adjustable flow regulation mechanism being configured to selectively cover an opening of the shunt, to regulate the flow of fluid through the shunt in relation to a pressure difference between the body lumens. In some embodiments a control mechanism coupled to the adjustable flow regulation mechanism may be provided, to remotely activate the adjustable flow regulation mechanism.Type: GrantFiled: May 16, 2011Date of Patent: August 8, 2017Assignee: V-Wave Ltd.Inventors: Dan Rottenberg, Ori Braun, Avraham Aba Sakay, Ascher Shmulewitz, Yoram Rozy, Gad Keren
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Publication number: 20170196615Abstract: A device for cryotherapy treatment of gastrointestinal lesions includes a cooling member that may be attached to a first tube for pressurizing cryogenic fluid through the tube and into the cooling member through nozzles located at the distal end of the first tube. A second tube may be attached to the cooling member for evacuating the cryogenic fluid from within the cooling member, following the fluid's expansion once it exits the first tube. The cryotherapy device may be attached to an endoscope such that the first tube may be passed through the endoscope's working channel, while the second tube may be passed along the endoscope's circumference. The cryotherapy device may further comprise securing means attached to the first tube, for securing the first tube to the endoscope's working channel, thus preventing free rotation of the cryotherapy device within the endoscope, relative to the rotation of the endoscope.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 24, 2017Publication date: July 13, 2017Applicant: GIVEN IMAGING LTD.Inventors: Ori BRAUN, Gavriel J. Iddan, Eyal Kochavi, Elisha Rabinovitz, Zvika Gilad
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Patent number: 9545192Abstract: Embodiments of the invention include a method and system for displaying an in vivo imaging procedure. The method includes receiving real-time image data captured by the capsule, and continuously generating an updated summarized color bar, said color bar comprising color strips and time scale marks. The color bar is calculated based on color values of received image data, and is updated continuously as new image data is received. The displayed time period is periodically updated, for example based on predetermined fixed time intervals, based on varying time intervals, or based on an accumulated amount of received image data. Other methods of determining the periodic updates may be used.Type: GrantFiled: May 2, 2013Date of Patent: January 17, 2017Assignee: GIVEN IMAGING LTD.Inventors: Ori Braun, Yaniv Ben Zriham, Elisha Rabinovitz, Tomer Carmeli, Jeremy Pinchas Gerber
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Publication number: 20160287309Abstract: A device for cryotherapy treatment of gastrointestinal lesions includes a cooling member that may be attached to a first tube for pressurizing cryogenic fluid through the tube and into the cooling member through nozzles located at the distal end of the first tube. A second tube may be attached to the cooling member for evacuating the cryogenic fluid from within the cooling member, following the fluid's expansion once it exits the first tube. The cryotherapy device may be attached to an endoscope such that the first tube may be passed through the endoscope's working channel, while the second tube may be passed along the endoscope's circumference. The cryotherapy device may further comprise securing means attached to the first tube, for securing the first tube to the endoscope's working channel, thus preventing free rotation of the cryotherapy device within the endoscope, relative to the rotation of the endoscope.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 15, 2016Publication date: October 6, 2016Inventors: Ori BRAUN, Gavriel J. Iddan, Eyal Kochavi, Elisha Rabinovitz, Zvika Gilad
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Publication number: 20150138329Abstract: Embodiments of the invention include a method and system for displaying an in vivo imaging procedure. The method includes receiving real-time image data captured by the capsule, and continuously generating an updated summarized color bar, said color bar comprising color strips and time scale marks. The color bar is calculated based on color values of received image data, and is updated continuously as new image data is received. The displayed time period is periodically updated, for example based on pre determined fixed time intervals, based on varying time intervals, or based on an accumulated amount of received image data. Other methods of determining the periodic updates may be used.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 2, 2013Publication date: May 21, 2015Inventors: Ori Braun, Yaniv Ben Zriham, Elisha Rabinowitz, Tomer Carmeli, Jeremy Pinchas Gerber
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Patent number: 8911368Abstract: A device, system and method for detecting bile and blood are provided. The device may comprise a housing having a gap through which in-vivo fluids may flow, illumination sources on one side of the gap, a light detector which is facing the illumination sources and is positioned on the opposite side of the gap for detecting light which passes through the in-vivo fluids, and a transmitter to transmit the detected signals generated according to the detected light. The system may further comprise a receiver to receive the detected signals transmitted by the transmitter, and a processor. The method may comprise comparing the detected signals with a predetermined threshold calculated from the transmission spectra of bile and of blood and determining the presence and/or concentration of bile and blood in-vivo.Type: GrantFiled: January 31, 2010Date of Patent: December 16, 2014Assignee: Given Imaging, Ltd.Inventors: Elisha Rabinovitz, Amit Pascal, Ori Braun, Zvika Gilad, Osnat Sella-Tavor, Yaniv Birnboim
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Publication number: 20140296666Abstract: In-vivo devices, systems and methods for the detection of blood within in-vivo bodily fluids. The methods include irradiating in-vivo fluids passing through a gap in a housing of an in-vivo device introduced to the GI tract of a subject with a plurality of illumination sources positioned on a first side of a gap; detecting with at least one light detector positioned on the opposite side of the gap and facing the illumination sources, light irradiated by the illumination sources; transmitting a plurality of values representing the light detected over time; converting these values to blood concentration values over time, and comparing the blood concentration values to a predetermined threshold value. Based on the comparison, the method includes determining the type of bleeding profile, such that if a plurality of blood concentration values measured consecutively is above the threshold value, the bleeding profile indicates bleeding.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 13, 2014Publication date: October 2, 2014Inventors: ELISHA RABINOVITZ, Zvika GILAD, Amit PASCAL, Yaniv BIRNBOIM, Gavriel J. IDDAN, Daniel GAT, Hagai KRUPNIK, Ori BRAUN, Dan ROTTENBERG, Omer SHEZIFI, Yosi PESIS, Dima PINHASOV, Evgeny KAPILOV, Nir LILACH, Eliahu ELIACHAR, Oren COHEN, Daniel GAMZU
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Publication number: 20140163449Abstract: A differential pressure regulating device is provided for controlling in-vivo pressure in a body, and in particularly in a heart. The device may include a shunt being positioned between two or more lumens in a body, to enable fluids to flow between the lumens, and an adjustable flow regulation mechanism being configured to selectively cover an opening of the shunt, to regulate the flow of fluid through the shunt in relation to a pressure difference between the body lumens. In some embodiments a control mechanism coupled to the adjustable flow regulation mechanism may be provided, to remotely activate the adjustable flow regulation mechanism.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 13, 2014Publication date: June 12, 2014Applicant: V-WAVE LTD.Inventors: Dan ROTTENBERG, Ori BRAUN, Avraham ABA ZAKAY, Ascher SHMULEWITZ, Yoram ROZY, Gad KEREN
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Publication number: 20130304446Abstract: A system and method for automatically navigating an in vivo imaging capsule in a body lumen. The system comprises an imaging capsule including an imager, optional pressure sensor for producing data of forces acting on the imaging capsule in vivo, and a transmitter to transmit image, positioning and pressure data from the capsule to an external unit. A positioning system for providing current position data of the capsule in vivo may be included in the capsule and/or external to it. External magnets may generate a magnetic field to scan a body lumen by causing a predetermined motion pattern of the imaging capsule within a region proximate to its current position, and generate a driving force to propel the imaging capsule according to a calculated target direction vector. A processor may calculate a target direction vector for propelling the imaging capsule based, on unique patterns identifiable in one or more images.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 29, 2011Publication date: November 14, 2013Inventors: Elisha Rabinovitz, Ori Braun, Yaniv Ben Zriham, Jeremy Pinchas Gerber, Gavriel J. Iddan, Eli Horn
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Publication number: 20130218149Abstract: A device for cryotherapy treatment of gastrointestinal lesions includes a cooling member that may be attached to a first tube for pressurizing cryogenic fluid through the tube and into the cooling member through nozzles located at the distal end of the first tube. A second tube may be attached to the cooling member for evacuating the cryogenic fluid from within the cooling member, following the fluid's expansion once it exits the first tube. The cryotherapy device may be attached to an endoscope such that the first tube may be passed through the endoscope's working channel, while the second tube may be passed along the endoscope's circumference. The cryotherapy device may further comprise securing means attached to the first tube, for securing the first tube to the endoscope's working channel, thus preventing free rotation of the cryotherapy device within the endoscope, relative to the rotation of the endoscope.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 7, 2011Publication date: August 22, 2013Applicant: GIVEN IMAGING LTD.Inventors: Ori Braun, Gavriel J. Iddan, Eyal Kochavi, Elisha Rabinovitz, Zvika Gilad
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Publication number: 20120325066Abstract: A manually operated food dicer having a frame structure which is supported above a support surface, the frame structure having a top surface that includes at least a first slicing blade and at least one carriage guide configuration. A food item carriage displaceably deployed on the frame structure by way of the carriage guide configuration, the food item carriage including an upper receptacle for receiving food items and a lower dicing blade platform. As the food item carriage traverses the length of the frame structure in a cutting direction, the upper receptacle passes over the slicing blade resulting in a slide of the food item being deposited on the lower dicing blade platform, after which the carriage guide configuration brings a top surface of the lower dicing blade platform into contact with a bottom dicing surface of the frame structure further cutting the food item slice into diced food cubes.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 24, 2010Publication date: December 27, 2012Inventor: Ori Braun
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Publication number: 20110306855Abstract: A device, system and method for detecting bile and blood are provided. The device may comprise a housing having a gap through which in-vivo fluids may flow, illumination sources on one side of the gap, a light detector which is facing the illumination sources and is positioned on the opposite side of the gap for detecting light which passes through the in-vivo fluids, and a transmitter to transmit the detected signals generated according to the detected light. The system may further comprise a receiver to receive the detected signals transmitted by the transmitter, and a processor. The method may comprise comparing the detected signals with a predetermined threshold calculated from the transmission spectra of bile and of blood and determining the presence and/or concentration of bile and blood in-vivo.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 31, 2010Publication date: December 15, 2011Inventors: Elisha Rabinovitz, Amit Pascal, Ori Braun, Zvika Gilad, Osnat Sella-Tavor, Yaniv Birnboim
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Patent number: 8070708Abstract: A differential pressure regulating device is provided for controlling in-vivo pressure in a body, and in particularly in a heart. The device may include a shunt being positioned between two or more lumens in a body, to enable fluids to flow between the lumens, and an adjustable flow regulation mechanism being configured to selectively cover an opening of the shunt, to regulate the flow of fluid through the shunt in relation to a pressure difference between the body lumens. In some embodiments a control mechanism coupled to the adjustable flow regulation mechanism may be provided, to remotely activate the adjustable flow regulation mechanism.Type: GrantFiled: February 3, 2005Date of Patent: December 6, 2011Assignee: V-Wave LimitedInventors: Dan Rottenberg, Ori Braun, Avraham Aba Zakay, Ascher Shmulewitz, Yoram Rozy, Gad Keren
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Publication number: 20110218479Abstract: A differential pressure regulating device is provided for controlling in-vivo pressure in a body, and in particularly in a heart. The device may include a shunt being positioned between two or more lumens in a body, to enable fluids to flow between the lumens, and an adjustable flow regulation mechanism being configured to selectively cover an opening of the shunt, to regulate the flow of fluid through the shunt in relation to a pressure difference between the body lumens. In some embodiments a control mechanism coupled to the adjustable flow regulation mechanism may be provided, to remotely activate the adjustable flow regulation mechanism.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 16, 2011Publication date: September 8, 2011Inventors: Dan Rottenberg, Ori Braun, Avraham Aba Zakay, Ascher Shmulewitz, Yoram Rozy, Gad Keren
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Publication number: 20110218481Abstract: A differential pressure regulating device is provided for controlling in-vivo pressure in a body, and in particularly in a heart. The device may include a shunt being positioned between two or more lumens in a body, to enable fluids to flow between the lumens, and an adjustable flow regulation mechanism being configured to selectively cover an opening of the shunt, to regulate the flow of fluid through the shunt in relation to a pressure difference between the body lumens. In some embodiments a control mechanism coupled to the adjustable flow regulation mechanism may be provided, to remotely activate the adjustable flow regulation mechanism.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 16, 2011Publication date: September 8, 2011Inventors: Dan Rottenberg, Ori Braun, Avraham Aba Zakay, Ascher Shmulewitz, Yoram Rozy, Gad Keren