Patents Issued in April 24, 2018
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Patent number: 9949652Abstract: An intravascular catheter for nerve activity ablation and/or sensing includes one or more needles advanced through supported guide tubes (needle guiding elements) which expand to contact the interior surface of the wall of the renal artery or other vessel of a human body allowing the needles to be advanced though the vessel wall into the extra-luminal tissue including the media, adventitia and periadvential space. The catheter also includes structures which provide radial and lateral support to the guide tubes so that the guide tubes open uniformly and maintain their position against the interior surface of the vessel wall as the sharpened needles are advanced to penetrate into the vessel wall. Electrodes near the distal ends of the needles allow sensing of nerve activity before and after attempted renal denervation. In a combination embodiment ablative energy or fluid is delivered from the needles in or near the adventitia to ablate nerves outside of the media while sparing nerves within the media.Type: GrantFiled: December 8, 2015Date of Patent: April 24, 2018Assignee: Ablative Solutions, Inc.Inventors: David R. Fischell, Tim A. Fischell, Vartan Ghazarossian, Steven Almany, Michael Sasha John
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Patent number: 9949653Abstract: Disclosed herein is a framework for facilitating patient signal analysis based on vector analysis. In accordance with one aspect, a set of vectors is generated from a patient signal data waveform. The vectors may be directed from a common center to points of interest on the patient signal data waveform. The framework may further extract one or more vector parameters from the set of vectors, and determine one or more vector ratios based on the vector parameters to monitor changes in the patient signal data waveform.Type: GrantFiled: June 13, 2017Date of Patent: April 24, 2018Assignee: Siemens Healthcare GmbHInventor: Hongxuan Zhang
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Patent number: 9949654Abstract: A method and system for detecting the onset of seizures comprising a measuring unit having one or more sensors for detecting the electromyographic signal of one or more muscles of the user. The sensors are connected to a pre-processing module comprising a high-pass filter which filters out noise and motion artefacts related to normal muscle activities. The pre-processing module is connected to a feature extraction module comprising a threshold detector which counts the number of crossings with a hysteresis within a predetermined time window. The feature extraction module is connected to a classification module which compares the extracted features to a first and second threshold and generates an event signal if the extracted features are above the first and second threshold.Type: GrantFiled: June 27, 2012Date of Patent: April 24, 2018Assignee: BRAIN SENTINEL, INC.Inventors: Isa Conradsen, Kim Gomme Gommesen, Karsten Hoppe
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Patent number: 9949655Abstract: A method of measuring and analyzing the ultra high frequency EKG is performed by measuring the EKG within the frequency range above 250 Hz with a dynamic range of at least 100 dB. In the UHF EKG signal positions of Rm of R wave in QRS complex of EKG are detected on the time axis and the EKG signal is converted to amplitude or power envelopes, the amplitude or power envelopes frequency range is anywhere within the limits from 0.2 Hz to at least 500 Hz. From these envelopes the amplitude and time numerical parameters that describe the myocardium depolarization inhomogeneity and electric myocardium dyssynchrony are determined, and these parameters are used for selecting the patients for multi-chamber stimulators implementation and optimization of their setting.Type: GrantFiled: December 19, 2014Date of Patent: April 24, 2018Assignees: USTAV PRISTROJOVE TECHNIKY AV CR, v.i.i., FAKULTNI NEMOCNICE U SV. ANNY V BRNE, M & I, SPOL. S.R.O.Inventors: Pavel Jurak, Josef Halamek, Vlastimil Vondra, Ivo Viscor, Petr Klimes, Filip Plesinger, Pavel Leinveber, Petr Vesely, Tereza Reichlova, Josef Sumbera, Jaroslav Meluzin, Karel Zeman, Miroslav Novak, Jolana Lipoldova, Michal Kuna
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Patent number: 9949656Abstract: A catheter comprising an elongated catheter body, an electrode array distal of the catheter body, the array having a mounting member and at least first and second spine supports. Each spine support includes a base having a planar configuration, and a plurality of spines extending from the base, wherein the first base extends in a first plane and the second base extends in a second plane different from the first plane in the mounting member.Type: GrantFiled: June 29, 2015Date of Patent: April 24, 2018Assignee: BIOSENSE WEBSTER (ISRAEL) LTD.Inventors: Steven Wu, Sungwoo Min
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Patent number: 9949657Abstract: A method for displaying electroanatomical information is provided. The method comprises identifying at least one multiple-activation area of a surface of a heart, at which multiple-activation area were recorded at least two different local activations during a single cardiac cycle of the heart. The multiple-activation area is displayed, on an electroanatomical map of the surface of the heart, in a manner that indicates a time difference between respective times of the two local activations. Other embodiments are also described.Type: GrantFiled: December 7, 2015Date of Patent: April 24, 2018Assignee: Biosense Webster (Israel) Ltd.Inventors: Eliyahu Ravuna, Lior Botzer
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Patent number: 9949658Abstract: A method for quantifying, during pacemapping, a comparison of a BSPM of interest to a pace site BSPM. The method may include receiving at a computing device a plurality of ECG signals from an acquisition system. The pace site BSPM may be calculated using the plurality of ECG signals. The BSPM of interest may be compared to the pace site BSPM, by: retrieving the BSPM of interest from memory accessible by the computing device and, calculating one or more comparison metrics for the BSPM of interest as compared to the pace site BSPM. An indication of similarity between the BSPM of interest and the pace site BSPM based on the comparison metric calculated may be displayed on a user interface in communication with the computing device.Type: GrantFiled: April 20, 2017Date of Patent: April 24, 2018Assignees: DALHOUSIE UNIVERSITY, BIOSENSE WEBSTER (ISRAEL) LTD.Inventors: John Lewis Sapp, Jr., Bohumil Milan Horacek, Meir Bar-Tal, Tal Haim Baron
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Patent number: 9949659Abstract: A system and method for determining and controlling a cardiac condition of a subject are provided. In some aspects, the method includes acquiring ECG signals using one or more electrodes configured to sense a cardiac activity of a subject, and analyzing the ECG signals to delineate cardiac waveforms on a beat-to-beat basis. The method also includes identifying, in the delineated cardiac waveforms, characteristic points associated with different phases of cardiac activity, and for each delineated cardiac waveform, computing an ischemic index using the ECG signals corresponding to a ventricular depolarization period and a ventricular repolarization period, wherein the ventricular depolarization period and the ventricular repolarization period are defined by the identified characteristic points. The method further includes determining a cardiac condition of the subject using each computed ischemic index.Type: GrantFiled: March 27, 2015Date of Patent: April 24, 2018Assignee: The General Hospital CorporationInventor: Antonis Armoundas
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Patent number: 9949660Abstract: Methods and systems are provided for discriminating rhythm patterns in cardiac activity. The method and system obtain cardiac activity data for multiple cardiac beats over a predetermined period of time. Multi-beat segments within the cardiac activity data exhibit different rhythm patterns of interest including fast and slow rhythm patterns. The method and system calculate a cardiac beats timing relation representative of intervals between the cardiac beats within a measurement window, wherein the measurement window is configured to overlap the corresponding multi-beat segment. The method and system designate the cardiac beats timing relation to have one of the rhythm patterns of interest based on a rate threshold, identifies when successive multi-beat segments exhibit rhythm patterns that transition between the fast and slow irregular rhythm patterns and records the irregular rhythm pattern transition in connection with the cardiac activity data.Type: GrantFiled: March 29, 2016Date of Patent: April 24, 2018Assignee: Pacesetter, Inc.Inventors: Lisa P. Weinberg, Pritika Toutam
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Patent number: 9949661Abstract: An EMG measuring system has a signal processing unit (8) and with at least one electrode (4) for measuring a potential difference in a muscle, a muscle fiber or in a skin area of a patient. At least one measured signal representing the potential difference is transmitted from the electrode (4) to the signal processing unit (8). Another signal, which is transmitted to the at least one external device (9), is generated in the signal processing unit (8) on the basis of this measured signal. A signal transmitted from the at least one external device (9) is processed by the signal processing unit (8) and at least one control signal is generated on the basis of this signal.Type: GrantFiled: June 19, 2015Date of Patent: April 24, 2018Assignee: DRÄGERWERK AG & CO. KGAAInventors: Marcus Eger, Frank Sattler, Jian Hua Li, Wanja Sebastian Schöpfer, Carsten Leischner
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Patent number: 9949662Abstract: Aspects of the present disclosure are directed to a CPU and a memory circuit that has user-corresponding data stored on the memory circuit, and a platform over which a plurality of electrodes are interleaved, and configured for engaging the user. While the plurality of electrodes is concurrently contacting a limb or other extremity of the user, measurement signals are obtained from the plurality of electrodes. Based on a plurality of impedance-measurement signals being obtained from the electrodes, signals are generated that correspond to cardiovascular timings of the user. In such aspects of the present disclosure, pulse characteristic signals are determined based on the plurality of impedance-measurement signals. One of the pulse characteristic signals is extracted, and used as a timing reference to extract and process another pulse characteristic signal.Type: GrantFiled: July 18, 2014Date of Patent: April 24, 2018Assignee: Physiowave, Inc.Inventors: Laurent B. Giovangrandi, Gregory T. Kovacs, Robert Bruce Darling
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Patent number: 9949663Abstract: One embodiment of an apparatus for analysis of body composition and hydration status by detecting resistance of the human subject at zero and infinite frequency including a method for measuring indirectly extracellular water mass, intracellular water mass, lean body mass, and body fat mass; daily changes of extracellular water mass, intracellular water mass, lean body mass, and body fat mass; and acute changes of extracellular water mass and intracellular water mass; and for individualized calibration of these indirect measurements.Type: GrantFiled: November 13, 2014Date of Patent: April 24, 2018Assignee: ORI DIAGNOSTIC INSTRUMENTS, LLCInventor: Zsolt Peter Ori
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Patent number: 9949664Abstract: A method, including inserting a probe into a cavity in a subject's body and receiving, from a force sensor in the probe, first readings indicative of a first change in measured contact forces between the probe and the cavity by less than a predetermined limit over at least a predetermined interval of time. The method continues by receiving second readings from the force sensor when the second readings have changed by more than a predetermined force threshold or location coordinates of the probe have changed by at least a predetermined location change threshold. The method continues by receiving third readings indicative of a second change in the measured contact forces between the probe and the cavity by less than the predetermined limit over at least the predetermined interval of time. The method concludes by calibrating a zero-force point for the force sensor according to the third readings.Type: GrantFiled: August 27, 2013Date of Patent: April 24, 2018Assignee: BIOSENSE WEBSTER (ISRAEL) LTD.Inventors: Doron Moshe Ludwin, Aharon Turgeman, Natan Sharon Katz, Erez Silberschein
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Patent number: 9949665Abstract: The present invention relates to a method for measuring or verifying the position of a medical implant located in an anatomical body part(s) and/or structure(s) relative to the body part(s) and/or structure(s) or specific points, landmarks or planes of the same, wherein a device is provided which has an at least partially known or previously determined geometry or at least partially known dimensions and is connected to the medical implant; positional or landmark information regarding the anatomical body part(s) and/or structure(s) is acquired; the position of the medical implant is calculated using a navigation system and a reference structure which is or can be connected to the device; and the calculated position of the medical implant is related to or compared with the acquired positional or landmark information regarding the anatomical body part(s) and/or structure(s) in order to measure or verify the position of the medical implant within or relative to the anatomical body part(s) and/or structure(s).Type: GrantFiled: June 17, 2011Date of Patent: April 24, 2018Assignee: Brainlab AGInventors: Heiko Müller, Mario Schubert, Martin Haimerl
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Patent number: 9949666Abstract: A swallowable in-vivo device contains a movement detection unit that includes a movement sensing unit, a frequency analyzing unit (FAU) and a time analyzing unit (TAU). The movement sensing unit senses movements of the in-vivo device relative to a non-stationary three-dimensional reference frame, and outputs a movement signal. The frequency analyzing unit may analyze the movement signal spectrally to detect a potential command-invoking movement, and the time analyzing unit may analyze the potential CIM temporally, possibly in conjunction with a series of other movement events, to determine whether the potential CIM is a genuine CIM. If the potential CIM is determined to be a genuine CIM, the in-vivo device may execute a predetermined command associated with the CIM. Otherwise, the in-vivo device may refrain from executing a CIM-related command. A PCB including the movement detection unit and a processor for processing their output is provided for the vivo sensing device.Type: GrantFiled: February 6, 2014Date of Patent: April 24, 2018Assignee: GIVEN IMAGING LTD.Inventors: Oren Rosenberg, Semion Khait
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Patent number: 9949667Abstract: Disclosed is a mask for use in respiratory monitoring and/or diagnostics. The mask comprises at least one transducer responsive to sound and/or airflow for generating a signal, and a support structure to rest on the subject's face. In one embodiment, the support structure comprises two or more limbs that provide a transducer support for supporting the transducer at a distance from a nose and mouth area, allowing monitoring via the transducer of sound and/or airflow produced by the subject. Also described is a mask comprising a transducer responsive to airflow for generating a signal and a support structure to rest on the subject's face and extend outwardly over a nose and mouth area to provide a transducer support supporting the transducer at a distance from a nose and mouth area of the subject's face and at a preset orientation, for monitoring via the transducer of airflow produced by the subject.Type: GrantFiled: December 10, 2012Date of Patent: April 24, 2018Assignee: University Health NetworkInventors: Hisham Alshaer, Geoffrey Roy Fernie, T. Douglas Bradley, Oleksandr Igorovich Levchenko, Steven M. Pong
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Patent number: 9949668Abstract: A method involves implantably detecting changes in posture of a patient's body. Baroreflex responses to the posture changes are determined. An autonomic tone of the patient is determined based on the baroreflex responses. Based on the autonomic tone, various patient susceptibilities to disease may be determined, including susceptibilities to heart disease, arrhythmia, and/or sudden cardiac death.Type: GrantFiled: February 7, 2012Date of Patent: April 24, 2018Assignee: Cardiac Pacemakers, Inc.Inventors: Yunlong Zhang, Mark Schwartz
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Patent number: 9949669Abstract: A method of determining patient follow-up subsequent to an orthopaedic procedure includes determining the number of cycles of use of an orthopaedic joint of the patient. If a predetermined threshold is exceeded, communication with an orthopaedic care provider is initiated. A patient monitoring system is also disclosed.Type: GrantFiled: June 11, 2015Date of Patent: April 24, 2018Assignee: DEPUY SYNTHES PRODUCTS, INC.Inventors: Mark R. DiSilvestro, Terry L. Dietz, Robert S. Hastings
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Patent number: 9949670Abstract: Provided is a measuring apparatus that may measure a vibration amount weighted by cartilage conduction characteristics of the human ear and thus allows for accurate evaluation of an electronic device having a vibrator. A measuring apparatus for evaluating an electronic device that delivers a sound through vibration transmission from a vibrator retained in a housing held against the human ear includes an ear simulator simulating the human ear and a vibration detector disposed on an artificial eardrum formed in the ear simulator.Type: GrantFiled: July 25, 2013Date of Patent: April 24, 2018Assignee: KYOCERA CorportionInventor: Tomoyoshi Ikeda
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Patent number: 9949671Abstract: Diagnostic mouthpieces and separate pads for same allow dental devices of various types to have a dual purpose. The diagnostic mouthpieces allow frequent use and early intervention.Type: GrantFiled: July 11, 2014Date of Patent: April 24, 2018Assignee: OrthoAccel Technologies, Inc.Inventors: Robert T. Rudman, Michael K. Lowe, David W. Ward
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Patent number: 9949672Abstract: Embodiments of the invention provide apparatus, systems and methods wherein pre-event and post-event analyte concentration readings associated with an event are collected and processed to determine a numerical delta. The numerical delta may be displayed on a visual display to aid in a ready determination of the affect that the event (alone or in combination with medication and/or insulin dosages) had on the analyte concentration levels. Medication and/or insulin dosages may be displayed alongside the numerical delta to gauge immediate relationships between numerical delta, dosage and/or an associated event. Apparatus and systems for calculating and displaying the numerical delta are described, as are other aspects.Type: GrantFiled: December 8, 2010Date of Patent: April 24, 2018Assignee: Ascensia Diabetes Care Holdings AGInventors: David A. Simmons, Jeffery S. Reynolds, Paul M. Ripley, Stanley A. Telson
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System, method and apparatus with multiple reservoirs for in situ calibration of implantable sensors
Patent number: 9949673Abstract: A subcutaneous sensor system includes a sensor, a plurality of reservoirs, a plurality of pumps, a mixer provided with a plurality of mixer inlets and a mixer outlet, and a controller having an input coupled to the sensor output and a plurality of control outputs coupled to the plurality of pumps and the mixer. In certain embodiments, the system further includes an enclosure for the reservoirs, the pumps, the mixer and the controller, e.g. in the form of a skin patch or in the form of an implantable enclosure. In certain embodiments, the sensor is external to the enclosure and implanted beneath the skin tissue.Type: GrantFiled: July 21, 2015Date of Patent: April 24, 2018Assignee: MAXIM lNTEGRATED PRODUCTS, INC.Inventor: John F. Di Cristina -
Patent number: 9949674Abstract: The present invention covers the integration and utility of accelerometer features into a clinical analysis system. For example, measurement of dynamic acceleration and orientation of a blood-testing instrument with respect to Earth's gravitational field may be used to determine reliability of a test procedure and optionally to provide corrective elements thereof.Type: GrantFiled: December 6, 2013Date of Patent: April 24, 2018Assignee: Abbott Point of Care Inc.Inventors: Gary Vandersleen, Pierre Emeric, Paul Wasserman, Narendra Soman, Graham Davis, Tian-Xian Zhao, Paul Glavina
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Patent number: 9949675Abstract: A noninvasive blood measurement platform may be used to determine the amounts of various constituents of the blood based on the bulk absorption characteristics of the blood. The platform may measure bulk absorption of energy such as, a broad-spectrum light, to determine maximum and minimum blood volumes. The platform may measure bulk absorption of energy at the maximum and minimum blood volumes. The bulk absorption measurements may be transformed using a transformation operation to determine bulk absorption characteristics in terms of frequency and/or wavelength. A time-varying component of the bulk absorption characteristics may be derived by comparing the bulk absorption characteristics at the maximum blood volume to the bulk absorption characteristics at the minimum blood volume. Multivariate analysis may be performed on the time-varying component to determine the amount of the one or more constituents of the blood.Type: GrantFiled: October 21, 2013Date of Patent: April 24, 2018Assignee: Convergence Biometrics, LLCInventor: David R. Miller
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Patent number: 9949676Abstract: A system and method to help maintain quality control and reduce cannibalization of accessories and attached probes in a highly sensitive patient monitor, such as a pulse oximetry system. One or more attached components may have information elements designed to designate what quality control mechanisms a patient monitor should look to find on that or another component or designate other components with which the one component may properly work. In a further embodiment, such information elements may also include data indicating the appropriate life of the component.Type: GrantFiled: August 27, 2012Date of Patent: April 24, 2018Assignee: Masimo CorporationInventor: Ammar Al-Ali
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Patent number: 9949677Abstract: Embodiments provide an apparatus, system, kit and method for in vivo measurement of blood oxygen saturation (BAS). One embodiment provides an implantable apparatus for measuring BAS comprising a housing, emitter, detector, processor and power source. The housing is configured to be injected through a tissue penetrating device into a target tissue site (TS). The emitter is configured to emit light into the TS to measure BAS, the emitted light having at least one wavelength (LOW) whose absorbance is related to a BAS. The detector is configured to receive light reflected from the TS, detect light at the LOW and generate a detector output signal (DOS) responsive to an intensity of the detected light. The processor is operably coupled to the detector and emitter to send signals to the emitter to emit light and receive the DOS and includes logic for calculating a BAS and generate a signal encoding the BAS.Type: GrantFiled: October 22, 2012Date of Patent: April 24, 2018Assignee: InCube Labs, LLCInventor: Mir Imran
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Patent number: 9949678Abstract: Methods and systems for determining elapsed sensor life in medical systems, and more specifically continuous analyte monitoring systems.Type: GrantFiled: February 16, 2017Date of Patent: April 24, 2018Assignee: Abbott Diabetes Care Inc.Inventors: Martin J. Fennell, Saeed Nekoomaram
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Patent number: 9949679Abstract: The disclosure relates to a microfabricated sensor (1) comprising at least one hollow microneedle (2) for minimal invasive extraction of a sample of bodily fluid, a fluid channel (3) connected to the at least one microneedle for receiving a sample of bodily fluid extracted by the at least one microneedle, a microwave transmission line (4) coupled to and extending along at least a portion of the fluid channel, such that the dielectric properties of the fluid in the fluid channel provide an influence on the electrical properties of the transmission line. The disclosure further relates to a method of microfabricating such a sensor and a method of sensing the level of a component in bodily fluid of a patient by providing such a sensor.Type: GrantFiled: November 29, 2013Date of Patent: April 24, 2018Assignee: Ascilion ABInventor: Markus Renlund
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Patent number: 9949680Abstract: A drawworks for a drilling device for lowering and hoisting a load such as a drill string or parts thereof includes a frame comprising a first bearing point, a second bearing point, and a third bearing point, a winding drum, and a first bearing device connected to the frame for the winding drum. The first bearing device is arranged so that a center of respective bearing forces is located at each of the first bearing point, at the second bearing point, and at the third bearing point.Type: GrantFiled: February 14, 2013Date of Patent: April 24, 2018Assignee: MHWIRTH GMBHInventor: Albrecht Heinrichs
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Patent number: 9949681Abstract: A method for detecting and presenting burnout symptoms associated with users is provided. The method may include receiving a plurality of predictor rules for monitoring and detecting a plurality of burnout indicators. The method may further include monitoring and receiving the plurality of burnout indicators. Additionally, the method may include storing the monitored and received plurality of burnout indicators. The method may also include detecting a plurality of burnout events associated with the stored monitored and received plurality of burnout indicators. The method may further include determining the plurality of burnout symptoms based on the detected plurality of burnout events. The method may also include determining at least one aggregate score based on the determined plurality of burnout symptoms. The method may further include presenting at least one alert and at least one recommendation based on the determined plurality of burnout symptoms and the determined at least one aggregate score.Type: GrantFiled: July 12, 2017Date of Patent: April 24, 2018Assignee: International Business Machines CorporationInventors: Hernan Badenes, Marco P. Crasso, Patricio M. Reyna Almandos
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Patent number: 9949682Abstract: The present invention provides a method for determining a target of alcohol test, including: determining whether a motor vehicle satisfies a preset condition; and determining, as a target vehicle, a motor vehicle that satisfies at least one preset condition. The preset condition comprises at least one of: a parking duration in an area, in which a distance from a place selling alcoholic drinks does not exceed a predetermined distance, has a value within a predetermined range; alcohol content in a body of a driver of the motor vehicle exceeds a predetermined value; and schedule of a driver of the motor vehicle on that driving day comprises having a meal and/or a dinner party. The present invention further provides a driving safety device, a server and a driving safety system.Type: GrantFiled: March 29, 2016Date of Patent: April 24, 2018Assignees: BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP CO., LTD., BEIJING BOE OPTOELECTRONICS TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.Inventor: Xuebo Zhang
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Patent number: 9949683Abstract: A method is provided for making multiple environmental measurements using a single sensing element. Each sensing element (sensel) includes a thin-film transistor (TFT) and a passive element. Typically, a plurality of sensels is provided arranged into an array. In response to an electrical stimulus, an electrical measurement is supplied that is responsive to a change in TFT electrical characteristic correlated to a first environmental condition, as well as a change in a characteristic of the passive element correlated to a second environmental condition. When the sensels are formed in an array, a plurality of electrical measurements is supplied corresponding plurality of locations on a monitored surface. Some exemplary environmental conditions include temperature, pressure, moisture, chemicals, oxygen, solution pH, salinity, and shear.Type: GrantFiled: December 22, 2015Date of Patent: April 24, 2018Assignee: Sharp Laboratories of America, Inc.Inventor: Themistokles Afentakis
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Patent number: 9949684Abstract: A new and/or novel image analysis technique for quantitative assessment of motion-based testing for injury in a patient using universally available and affordable devices and techniques is provided and disclosed. A video of a test being performed can be processed to track the motion of markers and/or bodily landmarks in two or more dimensions to quantitatively describe motion, thereby removing the subjective aspects typically associated with motion-based testing. In an example, the pivot shift test is a commonly used test for evaluating rotational instability of the anterior cruciate ligament (ACL)-deficient knee. The pivot shift test's subjective grading scale can be quantified and refined using image analysis techniques.Type: GrantFiled: December 5, 2012Date of Patent: April 24, 2018Assignee: University of Pittsburgh—Of the Commonwealth System of Higher EducationInventors: Volker Musahl, Yuichi Hoshino, Paulo Henrique Mendes De Araujo, Mattias Ahlden, James Irrgang, Freddie H. Fu, Richard E. Debski
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Patent number: 9949685Abstract: A sleeve is provided for determining the location and severity of joint pain in a patient. The sleeve includes sensors in communication with a display device that allow for areas of pain to be quickly and accurately determined. Methods of utilizing the sleeve are also disclosed.Type: GrantFiled: January 24, 2014Date of Patent: April 24, 2018Assignee: Howmedica Osteonics Corp.Inventor: Michael James Dunbar
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Patent number: 9949686Abstract: End-tidal carbon dioxide (ETCO2) measurements may be used alone as a guide to determine when to defibrillate an individual. Alternatively, ETCO2 measurements may be used in combination with amplitude spectral area measurements as a guide to determine when to defibrillate an individual.Type: GrantFiled: January 31, 2017Date of Patent: April 24, 2018Assignee: ZOLL MEDICAL CORPORATIONInventor: Keith G. Lurie
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Patent number: 9949687Abstract: A system and method for correlating health related data for display. The system includes a medical device recording data and a display producing device which correlates the data and simultaneously displays different types of data or displays two sets of the same type of data along with the circumstances at which the two sets of data were recorded. Such displays aid a physician in prescribing and ascertaining the efficacy of cardiac therapies.Type: GrantFiled: December 21, 2016Date of Patent: April 24, 2018Assignee: Cardiac Pacemakers, Inc.Inventors: James R. Kalgren, Rene H. Wentkowski, Jeffrey E. Stahmann
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Patent number: 9949688Abstract: The present invention is a Miniature Vein Enhancer that includes a Miniature Projection Head. The Miniature Projection Head may be operated in one of three modes, AFM, DBM, and RTM. The Miniature Projection Head of the present invention projects an image of the veins of a patient, which aids the practitioner in pinpointing a vein for an intravenous drip, blood test and the like. The Miniature projection head may have a cavity for a power source or it may have a power source located in a body portion of the Miniature Vein Enhancer. The Miniature Vein Enhancer may be attached to one of several improved needle protectors, or the Miniature Vein Enhancer may be attached to a body similar to a flashlight for hand held use. The Miniature Vein Enhancer of the present invention may also be attached to a magnifying glass, a flat panel display, and the like.Type: GrantFiled: July 15, 2015Date of Patent: April 24, 2018Assignee: AccuVein, Inc.Inventors: Ron Goldman, David Hunt, Mark Mock, Graham Marshall, Stephen P Conlon, Robert Roth
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Patent number: 9949690Abstract: An automatic configuration system for an operator console wherein one or more operators control and monitor physical facilities, operations or physically dispersed services. The system includes wearable personal identification devices worn by the operators and a control unit for communicating with the wearable personal identification devices in order to detect the presence of one or more operators within a defined control room area. Each personal identification device includes a sensor unit for monitoring operator data, and is adapted to communicate the operator data to the control unit, which is adapted to configure the operator console based on the operator data.Type: GrantFiled: December 4, 2015Date of Patent: April 24, 2018Assignee: ABB ABInventors: Fredrik Hedin, Pierre Schäring, Pierre Skönnegård
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Patent number: 9949691Abstract: Systems, methods and apparatuses for monitoring cardiac activity of an individual using a conformal cardiac sensor device are presented herein. A conformal cardiac sensor device for analyzing cardiac activity includes a flexible substrate for coupling to the user, and a heart sensor component embedded on/in the substrate. The heart sensor component contacts a portion of the users skin and measures electrical variable(s) indicative of cardiac activity. A biometric sensor component is embedded on/in the flexible substrate and measures physiological variable(s) indicative of cardiac activity of the user. A microprocessor, which is embedded on/in the flexible substrate, is communicatively coupled to the heart sensor component and biometric sensor component and operable to execute microprocessor executable instructions for controlling the measurements of electrical data and physiological data.Type: GrantFiled: November 21, 2014Date of Patent: April 24, 2018Assignee: MC10, Inc.Inventors: Gilbert Lee Huppert, Roozbeh Ghaffari, Melissa Ceruolo, Bryan Keen, Milan Raj, Bryan McGrane
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Patent number: 9949692Abstract: Assemblies are provided for positioning within a lumen comprising a stent graft; and a sensor positioned on the stent graft. Within certain aspects the sensors are wireless sensors, and include for example one or more fluid pressure sensors, contact sensors, position sensors, pulse pressure sensors, blood volume sensors, blood flow sensors, chemistry sensors (e.g., for blood and/or other fluids), metabolic sensors (e.g., for blood and/or other fluids), mechanical stress sensors and/or temperature sensors.Type: GrantFiled: December 21, 2013Date of Patent: April 24, 2018Assignee: Canary Medical Inc.Inventor: William L. Hunter
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Patent number: 9949693Abstract: Portable operatively simple touch screen apparatus uses testing methods and systems that are free of age and language constraints include special signal processing techniques that provide a temporal resolution highly sensitive for probing cognitive function. The embodiments include or make use of one or more modules implemented at least partially in a set of instructions in software and configured to measure user reaction times to visual stimulus on a touch screen device having a capacitive sensor touch-sensitive surface and a detector of audio waves resulting from touch on the touch-sensitive surface. The modules employ recordation of acoustic vibrations resulting from a user's touching a target location on the touch screen surface spaced from a touched starting location on that surface, in one embodiment, to measure temporal response to a visual stimulus placed at the target location.Type: GrantFiled: July 18, 2017Date of Patent: April 24, 2018Assignee: CogNeuro Solutions, LLCInventor: Anne Bibiana Sereno
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Patent number: 9949694Abstract: A wearable heart rate monitoring device includes an optical sensor configured to translate test light reflected from a wearer of the wearable heart rate monitoring device into a machine-readable heart rate signal. The wearable heart rate monitoring device also includes a motion sensor configured to translate motion of the wearable heart rate monitoring device into a machine-readable motion signal. The wearable heart rate monitoring device also includes a heart rate reporting machine, configured to determine a type of activity currently being performed by the wearer of the wearable heart rate monitoring device based at least in part on the machine-readable motion signal, and output an estimated heart rate based on at least the machine-readable heart rate signal and the type of activity.Type: GrantFiled: February 2, 2016Date of Patent: April 24, 2018Assignee: MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING, LLCInventors: Haithem Albadawi, Han Yee Mimi Fung, Zongyi Liu
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Patent number: 9949695Abstract: A photoelectric type pulse signal measuring method includes, obtaining a main-path light signal transmitted by a photoelectric transmitter and reflected back from a surface of skin having an artery underneath, obtaining at least one auxiliary-path light signal receiving an ambient light signal, and based on the at least one auxiliary-path light signal, adaptively filtering an ambient light interference from the main-path light signal and obtaining an adaptive filtration result; or obtaining at least one auxiliary-path light signal transmitted by the same photoelectric transmitter and reflected back from a surface of skin without any artery underneath, and based on the auxiliary-path light signal, adaptively filtering a motion interference from the main-path light signal; then extracting a pulse signal from the adaptive filtration result. The present invention can simply and effectively eliminate the ambient light interference or motion interference upon photoelectric pulse signal measurement.Type: GrantFiled: August 3, 2015Date of Patent: April 24, 2018Assignee: GOERTEK INC.Inventors: Song Liu, Shasha Lou, Bo Li
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Patent number: 9949696Abstract: Apparatus and methods for calculating cardiac output (CO) of a living subject using applanation tonometry measurements. In one embodiment, the apparatus and methods build a nonlinear mathematical model to correlate physiologic source data vectors to target CO values. The source data vectors include one or more measurable or derivable parameters such as: systolic and diastolic pressure, pulse pressure, beat-to-beat interval, mean arterial pressure, maximal slope of the pressure rise during systole, the area under systolic part of the pulse pressure wave, gender (male or female), age, height and weight. The target CO values are acquired using various methods, across a plurality of individuals. Multidimensional nonlinear optimization is then used to find a mathematical model which transforms the source data to the target CO data. The model is then applied to an individual by acquiring physiologic data for the individual and applying the model to the collected data.Type: GrantFiled: March 14, 2013Date of Patent: April 24, 2018Assignee: TENSYS MEDICAL, INC.Inventors: Oliver Goedje, Matthias Bohn, Patrick Hunziker, Oleksii Morozov, Felix Friedrich
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Patent number: 9949697Abstract: There is disclosed a device for imaging a body. In one arrangement, the device comprises a controller, storage storing electronic program instructions for controlling the controller, a display for displaying a user interface, and an input means. In one form, the controller is operable, under control of the electronic program instructions, to receive input via the input means, where the input comprises a first representation of the body, to process the first representation, to generate a second representation of the body on the basis of processing of the first representation, and to display the generated second representation via the display.Type: GrantFiled: June 2, 2017Date of Patent: April 24, 2018Assignee: MyFiziq LimitedInventors: Katherine Iscoe, Vlado Bosanac, Amar El-Sallam
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Patent number: 9949698Abstract: According to one embodiment, an X-ray imaging apparatus includes an X-ray imaging system, a control system, and a display processing circuit. The X-ray imaging system is configured to acquire X-ray image data of an object. The control system is configured to control the imaging system to acquire frames of X-ray image data corresponding to mutually different not less than three directions by reciprocating the imaging system. The display processing circuit is configured to generate stereoscopically visible image data by lining up the frames of the X-ray image data in a display order different from an acquisition order of the frames of the X-ray image data. The display order is according to a moving direction of the imaging system.Type: GrantFiled: March 18, 2014Date of Patent: April 24, 2018Assignee: Toshiba Medical Systems CorporationInventors: Takuya Sakaguchi, Hisato Takemoto
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Patent number: 9949699Abstract: An embodiment of an tomographic image generating system may include: an imaging member that includes a radiation source, a radiation detector and a subject table, and captures the projected image a predetermined number of times while changing a positional relationship between the radiation source and the radiation detector; a reconstructing member that generates a tomographic image of the subject from the projected image captured by the imaging member; an acquiring member that acquires a thickness of the subject and/or a two-dimensional shape of a surface of the subject, the surface of the subject being irradiated with radiation; and a controlling member that determines an imaging condition for the imaging member and/or a reconstructing condition for the reconstructing member generating the tomographic image of the subject, on the basis of the thickness and/or the two-dimensional shape of the subject acquired by the acquiring member.Type: GrantFiled: July 20, 2015Date of Patent: April 24, 2018Assignee: KONICA MINOLTA, INC.Inventors: Emiel Visser, Youichi Ono, Ko Matsui
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Patent number: 9949700Abstract: A system and method for providing image guidance for planning approach paths for one or more medical devices at a target location. The system can receive a volumetric medical image, determine a density of content within the volumetric medical image, receive an indication of a target location within the volumetric medical image, identify obstructing objects within the volumetric medical image, and determine a plurality of pathways from an approach region of the volumetric medical image to the target location. The system can cause a display to concurrently display the volumetric medical image and a plurality of emplacements for one or more medical imaging devices.Type: GrantFiled: June 30, 2016Date of Patent: April 24, 2018Assignee: InnerOptic Technology, Inc.Inventors: Sharif Razzaque, Luv Kohli, Andrei State
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Patent number: 9949701Abstract: In order to increase the accuracy of registration between a world coordinate system and an image coordinate system such that a tracked medical tool may be moved forward in the body of a patient without any additional or with limited live imaging, a method for registration of the tracked medical tool with an X-ray system is provided. The method includes receiving image data from the X-ray system at a plurality of time points, receiving tracking data from a tracking device of the tracked medical tool at the plurality of time points, and registering the world coordinate system and the image coordinate system based on the received image data and the received tracking data at the plurality of time points.Type: GrantFiled: February 14, 2014Date of Patent: April 24, 2018Assignee: Siemens AktiengesellschaftInventors: Andreas Meyer, Sebastian Schafer
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Patent number: 9949702Abstract: An X-ray grid structure is configured to be detachably attached to an X-ray detector and includes an X-ray grid configured to selectively transmit X-rays; and holders fixed along an outer edge of the X-ray grid, wherein at least one of the holders includes an elastic material and is configured to be bendable in a direction crossing an attachment direction, which is a direction of attaching the X-ray detector to the X-ray grid.Type: GrantFiled: February 23, 2015Date of Patent: April 24, 2018Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.Inventors: Jae-won Nam, Kyung-jun Noh, Seung-hwan Lee, Dae-woong Han