Patents Issued in October 2, 2018
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Patent number: 10085624Abstract: The invention has for its object to provide a manipulator and manipulator system in which a dynamic surplus is rapidly removed and a moving assembly actuates rapidly in association with the operation of an operating assembly. The manipulator 1 includes an operating assembly 2 operated by an operator, a moving assembly 3 operated by the operating assembly 2, a transmitting assembly 4 for coupling the operating assembly 2 to the moving assembly 3 to transmit driving force of the operating assembly 2 to the moving assembly 3, and a transmission compensating assembly 6 for making up for a dynamic surplus occurring in the transmitting assembly 4 in association with the operation of the operating assembly 2.Type: GrantFiled: January 26, 2016Date of Patent: October 2, 2018Assignee: OLYMPUS CORPORATIONInventors: Takumi Isoda, Naoya Hatakeyama, Masatoshi Iida, Sadahiro Watanabe
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Patent number: 10085625Abstract: A housing for accommodating optical and electronic components of a video camera of a medical video endoscope. The housing including: a first housing part, a second housing part, the housing parts assembled together to form inner chambers for mounting the optical and electronic components and an axial passage for optically connecting the inner chambers; a window disposed in an end opening in the assembled housing parts, electrical connectors disposed in a wall in the assembled housing parts, wherein, in an unassembled configuration, the inner chambers are accessible from a surface substantially transversely to a longitudinal axis of the housing parts, and the first and second housing parts are configured to mate with each other in such a way that the inner chambers are hermetically sealed from an exterior of the assembled first and second housing parts.Type: GrantFiled: July 17, 2013Date of Patent: October 2, 2018Assignee: OLYMPUS WINTER & IBE GMBHInventors: Sebastian Stuehle, Patrick Scherr, Sebastian Jungbauer
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Patent number: 10085626Abstract: An in-vivo monitoring camera system that includes: a camera support tube (13) of which one end part is introduced into a body; a camera unit (11) which joins with the camera support tube in the body; a joining portion which joins the camera unit and the support tube to each other; a camera side cable (12) which is connected to the camera unit, and is drawn out toward the outside of the body through the camera support tube; a control system which is on the outside of the body, is connected to the camera side cable, and includes at least a display apparatus; and a cooling system (77) which cools the camera support tube to which heat of the imaging unit is transferred.Type: GrantFiled: November 26, 2014Date of Patent: October 2, 2018Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Tsuguhisa Inoue, Toshihisa Gotoh, Kishoh Takamatsu, Kei Urakawa, Hitoshi Aoki
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Patent number: 10085627Abstract: An image pickup apparatus includes an image pickup device configured such that a plurality of electrode pads are disposed in a row on an inclined surface; a wiring board configured such that a plurality of first bonded electrodes that are bonded to the plurality of electrode pads via first solder bumps, respectively, are disposed in a row on a first end portion, and a plurality of second bonded electrodes are disposed in a row on a second end portion; and a signal cable configured to be bonded to the plurality of second bonded electrodes via second solder bumps, respectively. The wiring board includes a first protective film which covers the first end portion, and a second protective film which covers the second end portion, and is of a thickness that is greater than a thickness of the first protective film and less than a height of the second solder bumps.Type: GrantFiled: July 18, 2017Date of Patent: October 2, 2018Assignee: OLYMPUS CORPORATIONInventors: Kazuya Maeda, Shoichiro Kawayoke
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Patent number: 10085628Abstract: An endoscope includes: a tip portion main body provided at a tip portion of an insertion section; a camera unit attachment hole provided so as to penetrate the tip portion main body; a camera unit of which tip portion is fitted into a tip portion of the camera unit attachment hole; a locking member disposed at an outer peripheral surface of the camera unit so as to be movable in a direction that is orthogonal to the axial direction; a projection provided on either one of the locking member and the camera unit; a sliding portion provided on the other one of the locking member and the camera unit; and a locking biasing member configured to bias the locking member in the direction t orthogonal to the axial direction within the camera unit attachment hole and to push the locking member against the camera unit attachment hole.Type: GrantFiled: March 24, 2015Date of Patent: October 2, 2018Assignee: FUJIFILM CorporationInventors: Hiroyuki Oishi, Shozo Iyama
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Patent number: 10085629Abstract: An observation system includes: a light source portion configured to generate light of a first wavelength band, and light of a second wavelength band; an emphasizing processing portion configured to perform processing for highlighting a structure positioned in a layer of a predetermined depth in the biological tissue, to an image obtained by picking up an image of return light from the biological tissue; a selecting portion configured to change an emphasis amount; and a control portion configured to increase a ratio of a light quantity of the light of the second wavelength band to the light quantity of the light of the first wavelength band when the emphasis amount is increased, or decrease the ratio of the light quantity of the light of the second wavelength band to the light quantity of the light of the first wavelength band when the emphasis amount is decreased.Type: GrantFiled: May 4, 2017Date of Patent: October 2, 2018Assignee: OLYMPUS CORPORATIONInventor: Kenji Yamazaki
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Patent number: 10085630Abstract: An endoscope apparatus includes: first and second cooling units configured to cool first and second light source portions; an image pickup portion configured to generate a picked-up image; and a cooling control portion configured to control amounts of light emission of the light source portions while maintaining an amount-of-light ratio so that the brightness of the picked-up image becomes the target brightness and control cooling based on the information about the amount-of-light ratio and the brightness control information; wherein the cooling control portion decides a cooling capacity of the first cooling units and a cooling capacity of the second cooling units for cooling the respective light source portions for which the amounts of light emission are controlled, at the cooling ratio, so as to cause the light source portions to be included within a predetermined temperature range, based on the brightness control information.Type: GrantFiled: April 29, 2016Date of Patent: October 2, 2018Assignee: OLYMPUS CORPORATIONInventors: Yutaka Shirota, Tomoya Takahashi, Masato Toda, Yusuke Yabe, Yusuke Yoshida, Aiko Sakai, Takahiro Masaki, Takahiro Hayama, Ryo Machida, Koji Omori
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Patent number: 10085631Abstract: A CPU of an eyeglass-prescription assisting apparatus is configured to obtain measurement data on an examinee's eye measured by a wavefront sensor, including first distribution data on a refractive error distribution of an examinee's eye and second distribution data on a refractive power distribution in an eyeglass lens to correct the refractive error of the examinee's eye. The CPU further makes arithmetic processing to obtain third distribution data on a refractive error distribution taking correction with the eyeglass lens into consideration based on the first distribution data and the second distribution data.Type: GrantFiled: March 31, 2017Date of Patent: October 2, 2018Assignee: NIDEK CO., LTD.Inventors: Kazunari Shimizu, Shirohisa Kobayashi
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Patent number: 10085632Abstract: A mobile workstation system includes a transport vehicle, a mobile workstation, and a deployment system. The transport vehicle includes a cargo volume. The mobile workstation includes: a wheeled carrier; a cabinet supported by the carrier, the cabinet defining at least one enclosed compartment and having selectively openable closures to provide access to the at least one compartment; and a plurality of operational components disposed in the at least one compartment. The mobile workstation is positionable in each of: a storage configuration wherein the operational components are contained in the at least one compartment with the closures in a closed position; and an operational configuration wherein the closures are open to provide access to the operational components and the cabinet forms a desk including a work surface.Type: GrantFiled: October 7, 2016Date of Patent: October 2, 2018Assignee: NORTH CAROLINA DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATIONInventors: Randy Dishong, Timothy Mark McLawhorn
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Patent number: 10085633Abstract: A direct visualization (DV) system and methods are disclosed for measuring one or more anatomical features of the eye, including a depth of the iridocorneal angle of the eye. The DV system can include a wire extending distally from a handle with the wire having one or more indicators for measuring anatomical features of the eye. The DV system can be deployed into the eye and used with minimal trauma to ocular tissues. Furthermore, the DV system can be used independently or alongside other ocular instruments, such as instruments having indicators corresponding to the DV system for correctly implanting ocular implants without the use of a gonio lens.Type: GrantFiled: April 18, 2013Date of Patent: October 2, 2018Assignee: Novartis AGInventors: Michael Schaller, Tsontcho Ianchulev, Richard S. Lilly, Luke Clauson, David Lari
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Patent number: 10085634Abstract: An optical coherence tomography (OCT) system includes: a light source; a multi-focal delay line; and a light detector. The multi-focal delay line includes: a positive lens; and an optical switch configured to: receive a light from the light source; selectively direct the sample light to the positive lens via a selected one of a plurality of light interfaces each located a different distance from the focal plane of the positive lens; and direct the sample light to an object to be measured. The light detector is configured to receive return light returned from the object to be measured in response to the sample light, and to receive a reference light produced from the light from the light source, and in response thereto to detect at least one interference signal. An associated OCT method may be performed with the OCT system.Type: GrantFiled: December 14, 2015Date of Patent: October 2, 2018Assignee: AMO WaveFront Sciences, LLCInventors: Paul Pulaski, Daniel R. Neal, Thomas D. Raymond, Stephen W. Farrer, Daniel R. Hamrick, Richard J. Copland
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Patent number: 10085635Abstract: An information processing method performed in a wearable electronic device, periodically acquiring an eye pupil sizes of a user wearing the wearable electronic device; determining a difference between the eye pupil size acquired in a current cycle and the eye pupil size acquired in a previous cycle; and adjusting an optical characteristics of a light transmission module of the wearable electronic device according to the determined difference between the eye pupil size acquired in a current cycle and the eye pupil size acquired in a previous cycle.Type: GrantFiled: December 19, 2014Date of Patent: October 2, 2018Assignees: Beijing Lenovo Software Ltd., LENOVO (BEIJING) LIMITEDInventor: Zheng Liu
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Patent number: 10085636Abstract: An eye gaze detection apparatus includes a plurality of illuminators each including a light source for emitting light and disposed symmetrically with respect to a predetermined position, a plurality of imaging units each disposed at an inner or outer position with respect to the plurality of illuminators, a position detector configured to detect a first position indicating a pupil center and a second position indicating a corneal reflection center based on an image of an eyeball of a subject, the image being captured by the imaging unit with the light emitted by the illuminator, and a calculator configured to calculate a fourth position indicating a corneal curvature center, based on the predetermined position, a third position on a display, the first position, and the second position.Type: GrantFiled: October 20, 2015Date of Patent: October 2, 2018Assignee: JVC KENWOOD CorporationInventors: Masaru Ninomiya, Katsuyuki Shudo, Shuji Hakoshima
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Patent number: 10085637Abstract: a contact lens that monitors the radius of curvature of cornea includes an amplification chamber, am annular membrane, a microfluidic channel, and a gas reservoir within a top and bottom lens layers of the contact lens. The annular membrane is positioned within the amplification chamber and is in fluid communication with the gas reservoir through the microfluidic channel. A working gas within the gas reservoir and a working fluid within the amplification chamber and the microfluidic channel create a fluid-gas equilibrium pressure interface. The curvature change of the cornea results the amplification chamber wall and the annular membrane to deflect, wherein the deflection results the fluid-gas equilibrium pressure interface baseline to change within the microfluidic channel. Then the baseline position change is recorded by an external imaging system to analysis sensitivity calculation of the cornea.Type: GrantFiled: March 11, 2016Date of Patent: October 2, 2018Assignee: SMARTLENS, INC.Inventors: Ismail Emre Araci, Murat Baday
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Patent number: 10085638Abstract: An OCT system comprises an OCT scan module for retinal scanning and an add-on anterior segment scanning module which includes at least one anterior segment scan lens (11) and an add-on fixation target (15) which is used to maintain the viewing direction of the eye (6) under investigation while achieving anterior segment scanning. Because the anterior segment scan module added to the exterior of an existing OCT system for retinal scanning has an add-on fixation target (15), it is possible to maintain the viewing direction of the eye (6) under investigation while carrying out anterior segment scanning without adjusting the internal beam path of the OCT system, and the OCT system of the present invention can be adapted to patients with only one functioning eye.Type: GrantFiled: August 5, 2014Date of Patent: October 2, 2018Assignees: CARL ZEISS MEDITEC, INC., CARL ZEISS MEDITEC AGInventors: Martin Peschka, Xiaoxian Guo, Alexandre R. Tumlinson
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Patent number: 10085639Abstract: Various embodiments include a variety of sensors, such as a pulse oximeter, configured to track a dynamic component of a sensor and take an action based on a characteristic of the dynamic component. Some embodiments may include determining a gain applied to a signal of the sensor, determining whether the gain is discontinuous, and indicating that a sensor measurement associated with the signal is low quality in response to determining that the gain applied is discontinuous. Some embodiments may include determining a peak-to-peak voltage of an output of a sensor, determining whether the peak-to-peak voltage is within an acceptable peak-to-peak voltage range, and indicating that a measurement associated with the received signal is low quality in response to determining that the peak-to-peak voltage is outside the acceptable peak-to-peak voltage range.Type: GrantFiled: March 24, 2016Date of Patent: October 2, 2018Assignee: QUALCOMM IncorporatedInventors: Robert Scott Ballam, Robert Bruce Ganton, Stephen Dickey
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Patent number: 10085640Abstract: The present disclosure relates to techniques for receiving glucose data from a continuous glucose sensor and controlling the use and redistribution of that data so it is used in an intended manner. In one aspect, a method includes preparing data including glucose levels using a continuous glucose sensor unit; wirelessly transmitting the data relating to the glucose levels to a display device from the continuous glucose sensor unit; automatically forwarding the data relating to the glucose levels from the display device to a cloud computing architecture; and storing the data relating to the glucose levels in separate groups at the cloud computing architecture.Type: GrantFiled: May 11, 2016Date of Patent: October 2, 2018Assignee: DexCom, Inc.Inventors: Michael Robert Mensinger, Eric Cohen, Basab Dattaray, Hari Hampapuram, Apurv Ullas Kamath, Stephen Madigan, Phil Mayou
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Patent number: 10085641Abstract: A method for obtaining physiological data from a medical sensor device includes detecting a proximity of the medical sensor device by an electronic computing device. After the proximity is detected, a message is received from the medical sensor device. A determination is made as to whether the received message includes configuration information for a wireless communication link. When the received message includes the configuration information for the wireless communication link, the wireless communication link is used to receive physiological data from the medical sensor device and the received physiological data is processed at the electronic computing device. When the received message does not include configuration information for the wireless communication link, a determination is made as to whether the received message includes physiological data. When the received message includes the physiological data, the physiological data is processed at the electronic computing device.Type: GrantFiled: January 17, 2017Date of Patent: October 2, 2018Assignee: WELCH ALLYN, INC.Inventors: Steven D. Baker, David Harmon Olson
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Patent number: 10085642Abstract: The application features methods, devices, and systems for measuring blood flow in a subject. The computer-implemented methods include receiving functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) data that provides information on at least one of volume or oxygenation of blood at one or more locations in a body over a first predetermined length of time. The methods also include receiving near-infrared spectroscopic (NIRS) imaging or measurement data representing at least one of blood concentration or oxygenation at a first portion of the body over a second predetermined length of time.Type: GrantFiled: June 6, 2011Date of Patent: October 2, 2018Assignee: McLean Hospital CorporationInventors: Blaise Frederick, Yunjie Tong
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Patent number: 10085643Abstract: The present invention generally relates to methods and systems for (i) skin assessment based on the utilization of bioimpedance and fractional calculus and implementation of methods for skin hydration assessment based on the utilization of bioimpedance and fractional calculus and systems thereof, (ii) an Opto-Magnetic method based on RGB and gray images data as “cone-rods” principles with enhanced qualitative and quantitative parameters for analyzing water based on Opto-Magnetic properties of light-matter interaction and systems thereof, and (iii) imaging and analyzing skin based on the interaction between matter and electromagnetic radiation and implementation of an Opto-Magnetic method with enhanced qualitative and quantitative parameters for imaging and analyzing skin based on Opto-Magnetic properties of light-matter interaction and systems thereof.Type: GrantFiled: February 28, 2011Date of Patent: October 2, 2018Inventors: Jadran Bandic, Djuro Koruga, Sava Marinkovich, Rahul Mehendale
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Patent number: 10085644Abstract: Provided is an optical imaging system which visualizes a deep portion of a scattering body. The optical imaging system generates an image of an object to be inspected by removing a signal resulting from light reflected and scattered once by a surface of the object to be inspected from the signal obtained by means of an optical system analogous to Optical Coherence Tomography, thereby extracting a signal resulting from multiply scattered light.Type: GrantFiled: September 7, 2011Date of Patent: October 2, 2018Assignee: OLYMPUS CORPORATIONInventor: Kenji Taira
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Patent number: 10085645Abstract: Methods for performing orthopaedic surgical procedures using a handheld scanner are disclosed. The methods include, generally, performing one or more intra-operative scans using a handheld scanner, generating scan data from the intra-operatives scans, and comparing the scan data to a surgical plan. The scan data and other feedback data are used to validate the position and orientation of orthopaedic prosthetic component implanted in a body of the patient.Type: GrantFiled: September 30, 2015Date of Patent: October 2, 2018Assignee: DEPUY SYNTHES PRODUCTS, INC.Inventor: Ryan C. Keefer
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Patent number: 10085646Abstract: A contact-type endoscope surface enhanced Raman scattering (SERS) probe includes a gradient-index (GRIN) lens, a transparent substrate adhered to the GRIN lens, and a rough metallic layer adhered to an opposite side of the transparent substrate from the GRIN lens. The GRIN lens focuses light from a Raman spectrometer onto the rough metallic layer, and the rough metallic layer is positioned at the distal end of the contact-type endoscope SERS probe.Type: GrantFiled: May 26, 2015Date of Patent: October 2, 2018Assignee: BOARD OF SUPERVISORS OF LOUISIANA STATE UNIVERSITY AND AGRICULTURAL AND MECHANICAL COLLEGEInventors: Martin Feldman, Dooyoung Hah
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Patent number: 10085649Abstract: Devices as described herein for localizing an intracerebral hematoma or blood mass in brain tissue include a cannula and one or more sensor wires operably connected between a glucose meter and one or more glucose sensors for determining the location and margins of an intracerebral blood mass.Type: GrantFiled: August 17, 2016Date of Patent: October 2, 2018Assignee: Rebound Therapeutics CorporationInventors: Jeffrey J. Valko, Michael R. Henson
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Patent number: 10085650Abstract: A measurement device includes a detection device to detect a pulse wave signal at a first measurement location in a vascular pathway from the heart of a measurement subject to an area where an arterial aneurysm is predicted to occur and a pulse wave signal at a second measurement location in a vascular pathway from the heart of the measurement subject to an area that is different from the area where an arterial aneurysm is predicted to occur, a comparison device to calculate a comparison result by comparing frequency characteristics between the pulse wave signals, and a determination device to determine at least one of the presence/absence and size of an arterial aneurysm based on a predetermined characteristic amount for a frequency contained in the comparison result.Type: GrantFiled: October 22, 2012Date of Patent: October 2, 2018Assignee: OMRON HEALTHCARE CO., LTD.Inventors: Hironori Sato, Hideo Utsuno, Hiroshi Matsuhisa, Keisuke Yamada, Toshihiko Ogura
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Patent number: 10085651Abstract: Embodiments are presented herein that provide early prediction of the development of necrotizing enterocolitis by a preterm infant through analysis of the high frequency component of heart rate variability, optionally with analysis of respiration rate. Methods of treatment following prediction area also reported.Type: GrantFiled: March 13, 2013Date of Patent: October 2, 2018Assignee: The Penn State Research FoundationInventors: Kim Kopenhaver Doheny, Charles Palmer
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Patent number: 10085652Abstract: An optical sensor and a method of using the optical sensor in an optical measuring device that measures cardiovascular properties and compensates for movement artifacts by directing a sheet of light towards an artery. The optical sensor may include one or more light sources, one or more transmit light guides coupled to the one or more light sources and configured to direct light from the one or more light sources as a sheet of light towards an artery, such that the cross-sectional profile of the sheet of light may have a length transverse to a longitudinal direction of the artery that is longer than the diameter of the artery. The optical sensor may include one or more light detectors configured to receive backscattered light and generate an output based on the received backscattered light that is a reflection of the sheet of light from the artery and surrounding tissues.Type: GrantFiled: March 18, 2016Date of Patent: October 2, 2018Assignee: QUALCOMM IncorporatedInventors: David Boettcher Baek, Russell Gruhlke, Evgeni Poliakov, Khurshid Alam, Lars Lading
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Patent number: 10085653Abstract: Proposed is a Pulse Transit Time, PTT, measurement concept wherein a forced oscillation technique, FOT, is used to determine a pulse arrival time at alveoli of the lungs of a patient.Type: GrantFiled: September 9, 2015Date of Patent: October 2, 2018Assignee: Koninklijke Philips N.V.Inventors: Joachim Kahlert, Paul Aelen, Ronaldus Maria Aarts
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Patent number: 10085654Abstract: A display assembly includes a liquid crystal display (LCD) frame, a printed circuit board (PCB), and a front housing. The LCD frame includes at least one LCD frame obround boss. The PCB includes at least one PCB obround slot, where the PCB obround slot is sized to be larger in length and diameter than the at least one LCD frame obround boss. The LCD frame is secured to a printed circuit assembly. The front housing includes a display opening and an elastomeric bezel positioned on the front housing, where the elastomeric bezel is configured to position a liquid crystal display within the display opening.Type: GrantFiled: November 6, 2015Date of Patent: October 2, 2018Assignee: WELCH ALLYN, INC.Inventor: Alan S. Knieriem
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Patent number: 10085655Abstract: A system and method are provided for identifying a driver of a source associated with a heart rhythm disorder. Data are accessed from a plurality of sensors representing biological activity in the heart. A local first region of the heart that has repeating activation and determine whether the first region controls a second distant region of the heart for at least a predetermined number of beats is identified. The first local region is assigned as a driver of a source of the heart rhythm disorder, the source including the first local region and the second distant region.Type: GrantFiled: March 14, 2014Date of Patent: October 2, 2018Assignees: The Regents of the University of California, The United States of America as Represented by the Department of Veterans Affairs, Topera, Inc.Inventors: Sanjiv Narayan, Carey Robert Briggs, Ruchir Sehra
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Patent number: 10085656Abstract: A measurement device according to the present disclosure includes a light source which emits at least one kind of measurement light belonging to a predetermined wavelength band toward a measurement region formed of at least part of a living body, a detection unit in which a plurality of sensors is regularly arranged in a predetermined arrangement and which detects the measurement light emitted from the light source and passing through the living body with the plurality of sensors, and an analysis unit which performs analysis processing of specifying a measurement position for measuring information on pulsation along with activities of the living body from the measurement region based on a temporal change in an amount of light of the detected measurement light by use of a detection result detected by the detection unit.Type: GrantFiled: November 16, 2012Date of Patent: October 2, 2018Assignee: Sony CorporationInventor: Hideo Sato
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Patent number: 10085657Abstract: The invention provides a body-worn system that continuously measures pulse oximetry and blood pressure, along with motion, posture, and activity level, from an ambulatory patient. The system features an oximetry probe that comfortably clips to the base of the patient's thumb, thereby freeing up their fingers for conventional activities in a hospital, such as reading and eating. The probe secures to the thumb and measures time-dependent signals corresponding to LEDs operating near 660 and 905 nm. Analog versions of these signals pass through a low-profile cable to a wrist-worn transceiver that encloses a processing unit. Also within the wrist-worn transceiver is an accelerometer, a wireless system that sends information through a network to a remote receiver, e.g. a computer located in a central nursing station.Type: GrantFiled: September 14, 2009Date of Patent: October 2, 2018Assignee: SOTERA WIRELESS, INC.Inventors: Jim Moon, Devin McCombie, Marshal Dhillon, Matt Banet
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Patent number: 10085658Abstract: The invention provides a body-worn system that continuously measures pulse oximetry and blood pressure, along with motion, posture, and activity level, from an ambulatory patient. The system features an oximetry probe that comfortably clips to the base of the patient's thumb, thereby freeing up their fingers for conventional activities in a hospital, such as reading and eating. The probe secures to the thumb and measures time-dependent signals corresponding to LEDs operating near 660 and 905 nm. Analog versions of these signals pass through a low-profile cable to a wrist-worn transceiver that encloses a processing unit. Also within the wrist-worn transceiver is an accelerometer, a wireless system that sends information through a network to a remote receiver, e.g. a computer located in a central nursing station.Type: GrantFiled: November 27, 2013Date of Patent: October 2, 2018Assignee: SOTERA WIRELESS, INC.Inventors: Jim Moon, Devin McCombie, Marshal Dhillon, Matt Banet
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Patent number: 10085659Abstract: Medical devices and methods for making and using medical devices are disclosed. An example system for mapping the electrical activity of the heart includes a catheter shaft. The catheter shaft includes a plurality of electrodes including a first and a second electrode. The system also includes a processor. The processor is capable of collecting a first signal corresponding to a first electrode over a time period and generating a first time-frequency distribution corresponding to the first signal. The first time-frequency distribution includes a first dominant frequency value representation occurring at one or more first base frequencies. The processor is also capable of applying a filter to the first signal or derivatives thereof to determine whether the first dominant frequency value representation includes a single first dominant frequency value at a first base frequency or two or more first dominant frequency values at two or more base frequencies.Type: GrantFiled: October 2, 2015Date of Patent: October 2, 2018Assignee: BOSTON SCIENTIFIC SCIMED, INC.Inventors: Jacob I. Laughner, Carlos Alberto Ricci, Vladimir V. Kovtun, Shibaji Shome, Pramodsingh H. Thakur, Allan C. Shuros, Kevin J. Stalsberg
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Patent number: 10085660Abstract: A uterine activity analysis apparatus, comprising a rendering device at least one controller coupled to the rendering device, and configured to acquire a uterine activity signal (UAS) corresponding to uterine activity of a patient; determine uterine activity information based upon the acquired UAS and render, on the rendering device, content based at least in part including UAS upon the determined uterine activity information. The controller may compare the determined uterine activity information with threshold uterine activity information and provide clinical decision support (CDS) based upon the decision. Furthermore, the controller may render a breathing guide to illustrate a preferred breathing pattern, when the start of a contraction is detected.Type: GrantFiled: September 19, 2013Date of Patent: October 2, 2018Assignee: Koninklijke Philips N.V.Inventors: Jakob Van De Laar, Jeanine Johanna Maria Kierkels
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Patent number: 10085661Abstract: A system for locating the existence of a biventricular pace pulse for ECG, which includes a non-biventricular pulse detector for finding the onsets of ventricular pulses, a lead-wise biventricular pulse detector for checking whether there are two separated ventricular pulses in one heartbeat, and a vector-based biventricular pulse detector for determining the existence of the biventricular pace pulse if the lead-wise biventricular pulse detector does not find that there are two separated ventricular pulses in one heartbeat.Type: GrantFiled: April 16, 2014Date of Patent: October 2, 2018Assignee: Koninklijke Philips N.V.Inventor: Cheng-hao Chien
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Patent number: 10085662Abstract: The present invention includes a method and apparatus for digital to analog conversion and reconstruction of multichannel electrocardiograms. The method may include receiving digital information representative of a plurality of independent signals, producing a plurality of analog outputs from said digital information wherein a first analog output is designated as a common reference, and imposing a predetermined voltage on a second analog output with respect to said common reference, which provides for a substantial recreation of the original independent signals. The apparatus may comprise a processor operable for receiving digital information representative of independent lead signals from a first ECG machine and digital to analog circuitry for substantially reproducing the original lead signals for analysis on a second ECG machine for convenient and efficient second opinions of cardiac data.Type: GrantFiled: March 27, 2013Date of Patent: October 2, 2018Assignee: The United States of America as represented by the Administrator of the National Aeronautics and Space AdministrationInventors: Todd T. Schlegel, Walter B. Kulecz
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Patent number: 10085663Abstract: An ECG system identifies and annotates cardiac electrophysiological signals in an ECG waveform from harmonic waveforms. Electrical impulses are received from a beating heart. The electrical impulses are converted to an ECG waveform. The ECG waveform is converted to a frequency domain waveform, which, in turn, is separated into two or more different frequency domain waveforms, which, in turn, are converted into a plurality of time domain cardiac electrophysiological subwaveforms and discontinuity points between these subwaveforms. The plurality of subwaveforms and discontinuity points are compared to a database of subwaveforms and discontinuity points for normal and abnormal patients. At least one subwaveform or one or more discontinuity points are identified as a normal or abnormal electrophysiological signal of the ECG waveform from the comparison. The ECG waveform is displayed along with one or more markers at a location of the at least one subwaveform or one or more discontinuity points.Type: GrantFiled: February 26, 2018Date of Patent: October 2, 2018Inventors: Guangren Chen, Rong Yang, Zhongnong Jiang
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Patent number: 10085664Abstract: A electrocardiograph having a chest assembly intended to be applied to the chest region of a patient and an electronic unit is provided, with a recording module and with a wireless transceiver module. The chest assembly has a plurality of electrodes configured to be connected to the patient's body for the recording of an electrocardiogram and respective electrical wires connecting each electrode to the electronic unit. The chest assembly further includes a housing to which the electrical wires are respectively fixed. The electronic unit has a Hall-effect magnetic sensor configured to selectively allow it to mark, to start, stop, record and send an electrocardiogram to a telecommunications network. The electrocardiograph further includes a magnet mounted on a supporting member configured to be worn by a patient to activate the Hall-effect magnetic sensor.Type: GrantFiled: January 14, 2015Date of Patent: October 2, 2018Assignee: AB Medica Holding S.p.A.Inventors: Aldo Cerruti, Antonino Paris, Stefano Marchetti, Mauro Picciafuoco
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Patent number: 10085665Abstract: A system and method for non-invasively monitoring the hemodynamic state of a patient by determining on a beat-by-beat basis the ratio of lusitropic function to inotropic function as an index of myocardial well-being or pathology for use by clinicians in the hospital or by the patient at home. In one embodiment of the system a smartphone running an application program that is connected through the internet to the cloud processes electronic signals, first, from an electrocardiogram device monitoring electrical cardiac activity, and second, from a seismocardiogram device monitoring mechanical cardiac activity in order to determine such ratio as an instantaneous measurement of the hemodynamic state of the patient, including such states as sepsis, myocardial ischemia, and heart failure.Type: GrantFiled: October 7, 2016Date of Patent: October 2, 2018Assignee: THE COOPER HEALTH SYSTEMInventor: Robert Alan Hirsh
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Patent number: 10085666Abstract: A method for determining a social relationship includes detecting electrocardiogram (ECG) data from at least two subjects, detecting heart rhythm coherence (HRC) data from the ECG signals of the two subjects, and determining a relationship (intimacy) between the two subjects by comparing the HRC data of the two subjects.Type: GrantFiled: June 19, 2014Date of Patent: October 2, 2018Assignees: SANGMYUNG UNIVERSITY SEOUL INDUSTRY-ACADEMY COOPERATION FOUNDATION, CENTER OF HUMAN-CENTERED INTERACTION FOR COEXISTENCEInventors: Sang In Park, Min Cheol Whang, Myoung Ju Won, Sung Teac Hwang
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Patent number: 10085667Abstract: An ECG clock electrocardiogram based diagnostic device and method is disclosed. The ECG clock provides a clear visual indicator of heart related anomalies such as Long QT syndrome over a longer span of time than can otherwise be assimilated by a medical practitioner. A variable such as QT interval is represented by a variable length radial hand similar to a watch or clock hand. The circular face of the ECG clock represents the diagnostic time interval, typically 24 hours. The resulting output or plot of the ECG clock portrays a circular or polar mapping of the heart related variable such as QT interval over the diagnostic time interval, facilitating rapid diagnosis of volumes of electrocardiogram data by a medical practitioner that has heretofore not been possible.Type: GrantFiled: December 3, 2016Date of Patent: October 2, 2018Assignee: University of RochesterInventors: Jean-Philippe Yves Couderc, Mehmet Kemal Aktas, Tolga Soyata, Alex Tyndall Page
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Patent number: 10085668Abstract: The present invention relates to hair band EEGs. More particularly, the present invention relates to hair bands.Type: GrantFiled: December 12, 2016Date of Patent: October 2, 2018Assignee: NGOGGLE INC.Inventor: Melody Jung
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Patent number: 10085669Abstract: Provided is a device for measuring a signal and a method of operating the same. The device may include electrodes attached to the device, and a control unit for determining the optimal pair of electrodes to be used for measuring the signal. Also, the device may include an output unit for measuring signals that are sensed by the electrodes.Type: GrantFiled: October 22, 2013Date of Patent: October 2, 2018Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.Inventors: Chang Mok Choi, Sang Joon Kim, Min Young Mun
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Patent number: 10085670Abstract: A patient treatment unit and method analyzes and treats pain in tissues by applying an electrical pulse train to the affected tissue. The impedance of the affected tissue is measured, and the measured impedance is correlated to a level of pain in the patient. The pulse train is further applied in response to the measured impedance to reduce the patient's pain. The patient treatment unit includes a probe stimulus generator that outputs the pulse train. The treatment unit also includes a pair of probes for contacting the patient's body and receiving the pulse train. The pulse has improved shaping based on isolation of high voltage from a low voltage control. The unit further includes a body impedance analysis circuit that senses voltage and current via the probes when the probes are contacting the patient and observe the impedance. A monitor is electrically coupled to the body impedance analysis circuit and provides an indication of the measured impedance indicative of the patient's level of pain in real-time.Type: GrantFiled: November 18, 2011Date of Patent: October 2, 2018Assignee: NewLife Sciences LLCInventors: John Crosson, David Weinkle
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Patent number: 10085671Abstract: A method and medical system for estimating the deformation of an anatomic structure that comprises generating a first model of at least one anatomical passageway from anatomical data describing a patient anatomy and determining a shape of a device positioned within the branched anatomical passageways. The method and medical system also comprise generating a second model of the plurality of branched anatomical passageways by adjusting the first model relative to the determined shape of the device.Type: GrantFiled: May 13, 2013Date of Patent: October 2, 2018Assignee: INTUITIVE SURGICAL OPERATIONS, INC.Inventors: Vincent Duindam, Prashant Chopra, Tao Zhao
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Patent number: 10085672Abstract: A diagnostic endoscopic imaging support apparatus includes a three-dimensional image data obtaining section that obtains three-dimensional image data of a subject, a tubular tissue shape data obtaining section that extracts and obtains tubular tissue shape data representing a shape of a tubular tissue in the subject from the three-dimensional image data obtained by the three-dimensional image data obtaining section, an endoscope route data obtaining section that obtains endoscope route data representing a route of an endoscope inserted into the subject, and a matching section that performs matching between the tubular tissue shape data and the endoscope route data.Type: GrantFiled: July 22, 2014Date of Patent: October 2, 2018Assignee: Fujifilm CorporationInventor: Jun Masumoto
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Patent number: 10085673Abstract: In a method for continuous and non-invasive determination of the effective lung volume, the cardiac output, and/or the carbon dioxide content of venous blood of a subject during a sequence of respiratory cycles, the inspiratory and expiratory flow, and the carbon dioxide content of at least the expiration gas are measured. In each respiratory cycle, a first parameter related to the subject's fraction of alveolar carbon dioxide, a second parameter related to the carbon dioxide content of the subject's arterial blood, and a third parameter related to the subject's carbon dioxide elimination are determined based on the measured inspiratory flow, expiratory flow and carbon dioxide content. The effective lung volume, the cardiac output, and/or the carbon dioxide content of venous blood of the subject is determined based on the correlation of the first, second and third parameters.Type: GrantFiled: March 21, 2013Date of Patent: October 2, 2018Assignee: MAQUET CRITICAL CARE ABInventors: Par Emtell, Magnus Hallback
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Patent number: 10085674Abstract: A system is configured to generate a pressurized flow of gas comprised of a first gas having a partial pressure that varies in a predetermined manner. This may be used, for example, to simulate a previous and/or theoretical respiratory gas flow that was produced (or could have been produced) by a subject. The system is configured to deliver the pressurized flow of gas to a testing system configured to measure the partial pressure the first gas in flows of gas. This may provide an opportunity to determine the response of individual testing systems to various clinical circumstances.Type: GrantFiled: September 14, 2012Date of Patent: October 2, 2018Assignee: Koninklijke Philips N.V.Inventors: Joseph Allen Orr, Christina Marie Long
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Patent number: 10085675Abstract: A measurement information management system includes a measurement apparatus and an information device. The measurement apparatus may include a storage unit; a timepiece unit; a measurement unit which measures biological information indicative of a state of a user; a determination unit which determines whether the biological information meets a certain condition to thereby determine whether or not the state of the user is a certain state; a storage control unit which causes the storage unit to store a time at which the biological information is measured, when the biological information meets the condition; and a transmission unit which transmits information to the information device. The information device may include a display unit. Either the measurement apparatus or the information device may further include a position information measurement unit which measures a location. The display unit may display at least one of the time and the location.Type: GrantFiled: October 10, 2014Date of Patent: October 2, 2018Assignee: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATIONInventors: Shintaro Nagasaki, Yukari Araki, Masanori Ojima