Patents by Inventor Shlomo Ben-Haim

Shlomo Ben-Haim 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).

  • Publication number: 20200022649
    Abstract: Methods for estimating of the effectiveness of catheter ablation procedures to form lesions, and particular lesions which together form an ablation segment of an ablation line. Lesion effectiveness parameters are received, and effectiveness, optionally the joint effectiveness, of corresponding ablations (optionally planned, current, and/or already performed) is estimated. In some embodiments, estimating is based on use by computer circuitry of an estimator constructed based on observed associations between previously analyzed lesion effectiveness parameters, and observed lesion effectiveness. Additionally or alternatively, estimators may be constructed based on analytic functions. The estimator is used by application to the received lesion effectiveness parameters.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 12, 2018
    Publication date: January 23, 2020
    Applicant: Navix International Limited
    Inventors: Haim RODRIGUEZ, Shlomo BEN-HAIM, Yizhaq SHMAYAHU, Yitzhack SCHWARTZ, Eli DICHTERMAN, Zalman IBRAGIMOV
  • Publication number: 20200015763
    Abstract: An N-M tomography system comprising: a carrier for the subject of an examination procedure; a plurality of detector heads; a carrier for the detector heads; and a detector positioning arrangement operable to position the detector heads during performance of a scan without interference or collision between adjacent detector heads to establish a variable bore size and configuration for the examination. Additionally, collimated detectors providing variable spatial resolution for SPECT imaging and which can also be used for PET imaging, whereby one set of detectors can be selectably used for either modality, or for both simultaneously.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 24, 2019
    Publication date: January 16, 2020
    Applicant: Spectrum Dynamics Medical Limited
    Inventors: Nathaniel ROTH, Yoel ZILBERSTIEN, Shlomo BEN-HAIM, Benny ROUSSO
  • Publication number: 20200000368
    Abstract: Methods and systems for position determination are described for using an intrabody probe having a plurality of electrodes to generate a plurality of different electrical fields, and to also measure, using the plurality of electrodes, a measurement set (a Ve-e measurement set) comprising a plurality of measurements of the plurality of different electrical fields while the probe remains in one position. From the Ve-e measurement set, spatial position coordinates for the intrabody probe are estimated within an intrabody coordinate system, using an established mapping between previously observed Ve-e measurement sets and positions in the intrabody coordinate system. Systems and methods for generating and selecting such mappings are also described.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 8, 2018
    Publication date: January 2, 2020
    Applicant: Navix International Limited
    Inventors: Shlomo BEN-HAIM, Zalman IBRAGIMOV, Yehonatan BEN DAVID
  • Publication number: 20190365280
    Abstract: In some embodiments, a body cavity shape of a subject is reconstructed based on intrabody measurements of at least one property of an electromagnetic field by an intrabody probe (for example, a catheter probe) moving within a plurality of electrical fields intersecting the body cavity. In some embodiments, the electrical fields are generated at least in part from electrodes positioned in close proximity, for example, within 1 cm, of the body cavity. In some embodiments, the body cavity is a chamber of a heart (for example, a left atrium or left ventricle), and the electrodes used to generate the electrical field are positioned in the coronary sinus, a large vein occupying the groove between the left atrium and left ventricle. In some embodiments, known distances between measuring electrodes are used in guiding reconstruction, potentially overcoming difficulties of reconstruction from measurements of non-linear electrical fields.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 17, 2018
    Publication date: December 5, 2019
    Applicant: Navix International Limited
    Inventors: Yizhaq SHMAYAHU, Yitzhack SCHWARTZ, Eli DICHTERMAN, Zalman IBRAGIMOV, Shlomo BEN-HAIM, Yehonatan BEN DAVID
  • Patent number: 10493294
    Abstract: A method of treating cardiac arrhythmia in a heart, including (i) determining that cardiac tissue is viable but with reduced innervation; and (ii) ablating the tissue to reduce a prevalence of arrhythmia in said heart. Optionally, the determining comprises detecting portions of heart wall which lack electrical activity. Optionally, at least some tissue which is viable but lacks nervous control is ablated, for example, to reduce or avoid arrhythmia.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 6, 2018
    Date of Patent: December 3, 2019
    Assignee: Tylerton International Inc.
    Inventor: Shlomo Ben-Haim
  • Patent number: 10492247
    Abstract: A heating profile of a microwave oven is modified using microwaves at a plurality of frequencies. A power of transmission to a cavity of the microwave oven of microwaves is defined at each of the plurality of frequencies. A duration is defined for which the microwaves are transmitted at each of the plurality of frequencies. For each of the plurality of frequencies, a proportion of power input to the cavity that is not output from the cavity is measured. The measured proportions am used to modify the power of transmission at each frequency, the duration of transmission at each frequency or both.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 24, 2015
    Date of Patent: November 26, 2019
    Assignee: GOJI LIMITED
    Inventors: Eran Ben-Shmuel, Alexander Bilchinsky, Omer Einav, Benny Rousso, Shlomo Ben-Haim
  • Publication number: 20190340838
    Abstract: Methods for creation and use (e.g., for navigation) of displays of flattened (e.g., curvature-straightened) 3-D reconstructions of tissue surfaces, optionally including reconstructions of the interior surfaces of hollow organs. In some embodiments, data comprising a 3-D representation of a tissue surface (for example an interior heart chamber surface) are subject to a geometrical transformation allowing the tissue surface to be presented substantially within a single view of a flattened reconstruction. In some embodiments, a catheter probe in use near the tissue surface is shown in positions that correspond to positions in 3-D space sufficiently to permit navigation; e.g., the probe is shown in flattened reconstruction views nearby view regions corresponding to regions it actually approaches. In some embodiments, automatic and/or easily triggered manual view switching between flattened reconstruction and source reconstruction views is implemented.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 12, 2018
    Publication date: November 7, 2019
    Applicant: Navix International Limited
    Inventors: Leonid GLUHOVSKY, Yitzhack SCHWARTZ, Eli DICHTERMAN, Shlomo BEN-HAIM, Yaara YARDEN
  • Publication number: 20190336035
    Abstract: In some embodiments, a body cavity shape of a subject is reconstructed based on intrabody measurements of voltages by an intrabody probe (for example, a catheter probe) moving within a plurality of differently-oriented electromagnetic fields crossing the body cavity. In some embodiments, the method uses distances between electrodes as a spatially calibrated ruler. Positions of measurements made with the intrabody probe in different positions are optionally related by using spatial coherence of the measured electromagnetic fields as a constraint. Optionally, reconstruction is performed without using a detailed reference (image or simulation) describing the body cavity shape. Optionally, reconstruction uses further information to refine and/or constrain the reconstruction; for example: images, simulations, additional electromagnetic fields, and/or measurements characteristic of body cavity landmarks. Optionally, reconstruction accounts for time-dependent cavity shape changes, for example, phasic changes (e.g.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 12, 2018
    Publication date: November 7, 2019
    Applicant: Navix International Limited
    Inventors: Eli DICHTERMAN, Yitzhack SCHWARTZ, Yizhaq SHMAYAHU, Shlomo BEN-HAIM
  • Publication number: 20190254564
    Abstract: There is provided a computerized method of tracking a position of an intra-body catheter, comprising: physically tracking coordinates of the position of a distal portion of a physical catheter within the physical body portion of the patient according to physically applied plurality of electrical fields within the body portion and measurements of the plurality of electrical fields performed by a plurality of physical electrodes at a distal portion of the physical catheter; registering the physically tracked coordinates with simulated coordinates generated according to a simulation of a simulated catheter within a simulation of the body of the patient, to identify differences between physically tracked location coordinates and the simulation coordinates; correcting the physically tracked location coordinates according to the registered simulation coordinates; and providing the corrected physically tracked location coordinates for presentation.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 6, 2019
    Publication date: August 22, 2019
    Applicant: Navix International Limited
    Inventors: Yitzhack SCHWARTZ, Shlomo BEN-HAIM, Eli DICHTERMAN
  • Patent number: 10362960
    Abstract: An embodiment of system for intrabody treatment of a treatment location in a body of a treated patient is disclosed. The system may include deploying at least two transmission points of a multi point probe to a proximity with the treatment location in the body. A transmission pattern may be selected that defines, for each of the transmission points, a respective signal of a plurality of transmission signals. The transmission pattern may form at least one interaction between the respective signals. The interaction may form a hot spot at the treatment location. A plurality of transmission signals may be delivered from the transmission points.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 19, 2013
    Date of Patent: July 30, 2019
    Assignee: Renal Dynamics Ltd.
    Inventor: Shlomo Ben-Haim
  • Publication number: 20190227080
    Abstract: A method of modifying tissue behavior, comprising: determining a desired modification of tissue behavior for at least one of treatment of a disease, short or long term modification of tissue behavior, assessing tissue state and assessing tissue response to stimulation; selecting an electric field having an expected effect of modifying protein activity of at least one protein as an immediate response of a tissue to the field, said expected effect correlated with said desired modification; and applying said field to said tissue.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 29, 2016
    Publication date: July 25, 2019
    Applicant: Impulse Dynamics NV
    Inventors: Benny ROUSSO, Yuval MIKA, Shlomo BEN-HAIM, Hani N. SABBAH
  • Patent number: 10352948
    Abstract: A method of modifying tissue behavior, comprising: determining a desired modification of tissue behavior for at least one of treatment of a disease, short or long term modification of tissue behavior, assessing tissue state and assessing tissue response to stimulation; selecting an electric field having an expected effect of modifying protein activity of at least one protein as an immediate response of a tissue to the field, said expected effect correlated with said desired modification; and applying said field to said tissue.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 29, 2016
    Date of Patent: July 16, 2019
    Assignee: Impulse Dynamics NV
    Inventors: Benny Rousso, Yuval Mika, Shlomo Ben Haim, Hani N. Sabbah
  • Publication number: 20190209918
    Abstract: A gyroscopic exercise apparatus, comprising: at least one control-moment gyroscope; at least one motion sensor for sensing movement of the apparatus; at least one spindle motor for providing rotation to a rotor of the gyroscope; and, at least one reversible motor for providing rotation to at least one gimbal of the gyroscope.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 18, 2019
    Publication date: July 11, 2019
    Applicant: Motorika Limited
    Inventors: Shlomo Ben-Haim, David Prutchi
  • Publication number: 20190151671
    Abstract: Methods and devices for tying management of an implantable medical device to the activities of a primary care physician are described, including access control, simplified parameter optimization, support for tuning a device in response to the effects of other treatments in parallel, and support for helping a primary physician and a patient work together to tune device configuration to the activity and performance needs of the patient. In some embodiments, a medical device is self-configuring in a device parameter domain, based on inputs provided in a patient performance domain. The self-configuring of the medical device is based, for example, on an automatically applied transformation of inputs derived from patient performance domain observations into changes in the configuration of the medical device which affect technical parameters of its operation.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 25, 2019
    Publication date: May 23, 2019
    Inventors: Shlomo BEN-HAIM, David PRUTCHI, Yuval BEN-HAIM
  • Patent number: 10292588
    Abstract: A method of medical image processing for images of body structures, comprising: receiving anatomical data to reconstruct an anatomical image of a region of a body of a patient, said region comprises a portion of at least one internal body part which borders or is spaced apart from a target tissue; receiving functional data from a functional imaging modality which images at least said portion of the region of the body of the patient; processing said anatomical image to generate at least one image mask corresponding to the zone outside of the wall of said at least one internal body part; correlating the at least one generated image mask with the functional data for guiding a reconstruction of a functional image depicting said target tissue; and providing the reconstructed functional image.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 24, 2014
    Date of Patent: May 21, 2019
    Assignee: Tylerton International Holdings Inc.
    Inventor: Shlomo Ben-Haim
  • Publication number: 20190137513
    Abstract: A method of modifying tissue behavior, comprising: determining a desired modification of tissue behavior for at least one of treatment of a disease, short or long term modification of tissue behavior, assessing tissue state and assessing tissue response to stimulation; selecting an electric field having an expected effect of modifying protein activity of at least one protein as an immediate response of a tissue to the field, said expected effect correlated with said desired modification; and applying said field to said tissue.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 26, 2018
    Publication date: May 9, 2019
    Inventors: Benny ROUSSO, Yuval MIKA, Shlomo BEN-HAIM, Hani N. SABBAH
  • Patent number: 10278616
    Abstract: There is provided a computerized method of tracking a position of an intra-body catheter, comprising: physically tracking coordinates of the position of a distal portion of a physical catheter within the physical body portion of the patient according to physically applied plurality of electrical fields within the body portion and measurements of the plurality of electrical fields performed by a plurality of physical electrodes at a distal portion of the physical catheter; registering the physically tracked coordinates with simulated coordinates generated according to a simulation of a simulated catheter within a simulation of the body of the patient, to identify differences between physically tracked location coordinates and the simulation coordinates; correcting the physically tracked location coordinates according to the registered simulation coordinates; and providing the corrected physically tracked location coordinates for presentation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 11, 2016
    Date of Patent: May 7, 2019
    Assignee: Navix International Limited
    Inventors: Yitzhack Schwartz, Shlomo Ben-Haim, Eli Dichterman
  • Patent number: 10252151
    Abstract: A gyroscopic exercise apparatus, comprising: at least one control-moment gyroscope; at least one motion sensor for sensing movement of the apparatus; at least one spindle motor for providing rotation to a rotor of the gyroscope; and, at least one reversible motor for providing rotation to at least one gimbal of the gyroscope.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 14, 2013
    Date of Patent: April 9, 2019
    Assignee: Motorika Limited
    Inventors: Shlomo Ben-Haim, David Prutchi
  • Patent number: D843385
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 19, 2017
    Date of Patent: March 19, 2019
    Assignee: NAVIX INTERNATIONAL LIMITED
    Inventors: Shlomo Ben-Haim, Yitzhack Schwartz, Leonid Gluhovsky, Yaara Yarden
  • Patent number: D864235
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 27, 2018
    Date of Patent: October 22, 2019
    Assignee: NAVIX INTERNATIONAL LIMITED
    Inventors: Shlomo Ben-Haim, Yitzhack Schwartz, Leonid Gluhovsky, Yaara Yarden