Patents Issued in November 13, 2018
  • Patent number: 10123691
    Abstract: Various methods for automatically identifying the Schwalbe's line location in an optical coherence tomography (OCT) image of the anterior chamber of an eye are described. In one example method, the posterior corneal surface in the ROI is segmented by using one or more segmentation approaches to produce a segmented output. A curvature is computed at each segmented point to identify a set of local curvature maxima locations. Features at each local curvature maxima location are evaluated. The Schwalbe's line location is identified using the evaluated features at each maxima location. Other methods for identifying the Schwalbe's line location discussed in the present application are based on identification of a location of maximum curvature in the curvature function and identification of a maximum distance to the convex-hull of a model fit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 14, 2017
    Date of Patent: November 13, 2018
    Assignee: CARL ZEISS MEDITEC, INC.
    Inventor: Homayoun Bagherinia
  • Patent number: 10123692
    Abstract: An ophthalmologic apparatus wherein auto alignment and manual alignment can be selectively used to enhance alignment accuracy between an eye to be inspected and an ophthalmic part includes an ophthalmic part that detects an eye to be inspected, a fixing part, a movable part on which the ophthalmic part is placed and configured to be movable with respect to the fixing unit in a horizontal direction, a drive part that transmits electric drive force for horizontal movement of the movable part, an alignment detection unit that detects a relative position between the eye to be inspected and ophthalmic part, a controller that controls the movable part based on a detection result from the alignment detection unit, and a drive force transmit switching unit that switches whether or not to execute transmission of the drive force from the drive part to the movable part.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 27, 2015
    Date of Patent: November 13, 2018
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Hayato Shioda
  • Patent number: 10123693
    Abstract: Systems, apparatus, and methods are provided for quantifying inter-ocular suppression in binocular vision impairment. The systems, apparatus, and methods may include a stimulus presentation device and a controller which present different stimuli to each eye of a patient. The stimuli can include letters, numbers, or shapes which are arranged in rows, and columns with a stimulus presented to each eye in a location corresponding a stimulus presented to the other eye. The combined contrast of corresponding stimuli equals a predetermined value, and this contrast can be adjusted with each iteration of stimuli presented. This adjustment can be based upon the patient's reports of what is seen and adjustments made by an algorithm executed by the controller. Suppression can thus be determined in terms of visual field location and quantified.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 17, 2015
    Date of Patent: November 13, 2018
    Inventors: Peter Bex, Steven Dakin, MiYoung Kwon, Emily Wiecek
  • Patent number: 10123694
    Abstract: An optical measurement device including a light emitting element, a light pattern generating element and a light source transmission element is provided. The light pattern generating element includes a disk body, at least one round hole penetrating the disk body, at least one round disk embedded in the round hole, and at least two first magnetic elements disposed on the round disk. One end of the light source transmission element has two second magnetic elements. Through the magnetic connection of the first magnetic elements and the second magnetic elements, a chink on the round disk can rotate with the light source transmission element when the light source transmission element rotates. An optical measurement system including the optical measurement device is also provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 22, 2016
    Date of Patent: November 13, 2018
    Assignee: Tzu Chi University
    Inventor: Tsu-Wang Shen
  • Patent number: 10123695
    Abstract: A display, imaging units that capture a subject, an eye gaze detector that detects an eye gaze direction of the subject, from the captured image captured by the imaging units, a gaze point detector that detects a gaze point of the subject in a display region of the display, based on the eye gaze direction, an output controller that displays any of a plurality of diagnosis images on the display, selects the diagnosis image to be displayed next according to a position of the gaze point detected when the diagnosis image is displayed, from the plurality of diagnosis images, and further displays the selected diagnosis image on the display, and an evaluator that calculates an evaluation value of the subject, based on the gaze point detected by the gaze point detector when the diagnosis image is displayed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 26, 2016
    Date of Patent: November 13, 2018
    Assignee: JVC KENWOOD Corporation
    Inventors: Shuji Hakoshima, Katsuyuki Shudo, Masaru Ninomiya
  • Patent number: 10123696
    Abstract: A laser surgery system includes a light source, an eye interface device, a scanning assembly, a confocal detection assembly and preferably a confocal bypass assembly. The light source generates an electromagnetic beam. The scanning assembly scans a focal point of the electromagnetic beam to different locations within the eye. An optical path propagates the electromagnetic beam from a light source to the focal point, and also propagates a portion of the electromagnetic beam reflected from the focal point location back along at least a portion of the optical path. The optical path includes an optical element associated with a confocal detection assembly that diverts a portion of the reflected electromagnetic radiation to a sensor. The sensor generates an intensity signal indicative of intensity the electromagnetic beam reflected from the focal point location. The confocal bypass assembly reversibly diverts the electromagnetic beam along a diversion optical path around the optical element.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 19, 2014
    Date of Patent: November 13, 2018
    Assignee: OPTIMEDICA CORPORATION
    Inventors: Georg Schuele, Noah Bareket, David Dewey, John S. Hart, Javier G Gonzalez, Raymond Woo, Thomas Z Teisseyre, Jeffrey A Golda, Katrina B Sheehy, Madeleine C O'Meara, Bruce Woodley
  • Patent number: 10123697
    Abstract: Methods and apparatus for automatically aligning a confocal aperture utilize a confocal imaging system and a computer controlled optimization algorithm such as the Nelder-Mead algorithm for imaging an in-vivo eye having chromatic aberration. When using a confocal aperture of 3.4 Airy disks in diameter, images were obtained using retinal radiant exposures of less than 2.44 J/cm2, which is ˜22 times below the current ANSI maximum permissible exposure. The embodied method can be used, e.g., to study RPE morphology in AMD and other diseases, providing a powerful tool for understanding disease pathogenesis and progression, and offering a new means to assess the efficacy of treatments designed to restore RPE health.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 10, 2014
    Date of Patent: November 13, 2018
    Assignee: University of Rochester
    Inventor: Ethan A. Rossi
  • Patent number: 10123698
    Abstract: An ophthalmic apparatus includes a generation unit configured to generate 3D blood vessel data indicating a blood vessel in a fundus based on a plurality of tomographic image data indicating cross sections of the fundus, a boundary obtaining unit configured to obtain layer boundary data indicating at least one layer boundary based on 3D tomographic image data including the plurality of tomographic image data indicating the cross sections of the fundus, and a determination unit configured to determine a blood vessel intersecting with the layer boundary by comparing the 3D blood vessel data with the layer boundary data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 24, 2016
    Date of Patent: November 13, 2018
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Masashi Kotoku, Nobuhiro Tomatsu
  • Patent number: 10123699
    Abstract: The ophthalmologic apparatus includes: a scanning unit that scans a fundus of an eye to be inspected with measurement light; a selecting unit that selects one imaging mode out of a first imaging mode and a second imaging mode which is different from the first imaging mode; an acquiring unit that acquires information which indicates a movement amount of the eye to be inspected, based on a plurality of planar images of the fundus; and a correcting unit that corrects a scanning position of the measurement light in an initial scan which is executed after the information indicating the movement amount has been acquired, in the first imaging mode, and corrects the scanning position of the measurement light in an initial scan included in an initial scanning group which is executed after the information indicating the movement amount has been acquired, in the second imaging mode.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 7, 2017
    Date of Patent: November 13, 2018
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Wataru Sakagawa, Marek Rozanski, Tomasz Dziubak
  • Patent number: 10123700
    Abstract: An ophthalmic apparatus and method is provided for quickly and accurately aligning a measurement optical system with the vertex of the cornea of a subject's eye. The ophthalmic apparatus comprises a main body, an infrared detection system, a support portion, a driving unit, a visible light irradiation system placed coaxially with the apparatus main body and configured to irradiate the subject's eye, at least two photographing devices configured to substantially simultaneously photograph the subject's eye from different directions, a first alignment detection unit configured to acquire Purkinje images of the subject's eye, originating from infrared light, from at least two photographed images of the subject's eye and detect a position of the subject's eye from the Purkinje images, a second alignment detection unit, and a drive control unit to align the apparatus with the subject's eye.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 25, 2017
    Date of Patent: November 13, 2018
    Assignee: TOPCON CORPORATION
    Inventor: Masashi Nakajima
  • Patent number: 10123701
    Abstract: An intraocular pressure detecting device includes a pressure generation unit, a light source, an image sensing unit and a processing unit. The pressure generation unit applies pressure to a target surface of an eyeball along a first operation axis direction, such that a deformation is generated on the target surface. The light source emits light that irradiates the target surface along a second operation axis direction, so as to generate a speckle pattern on the target surface. The image sensing unit observes and records an image variation of the speckle pattern along a third operation axis direction. The processing unit is signally connected with the image sensing unit to receive an image of the speckle pattern. The processing unit identifies and analyzes a feature size of the image of the speckle pattern for obtaining an intraocular pressure value of the eyeball. An intraocular pressure detecting method is also described.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 28, 2015
    Date of Patent: November 13, 2018
    Assignee: Industrial Technology Research Institute
    Inventors: Yio-Wha Shau, De-Yi Chiou, Wan-Ting Tien, Tian-Yuan Chen, Chun-Chuan Lin, Shih-Bin Luo
  • Patent number: 10123702
    Abstract: A patient monitoring system includes an electronic device that may be manipulated by a first user. The electronic device has a first transceiver. A monitoring unit is worn on a second user thereby facilitating the monitoring unit to detect vital signs of the second user. The monitoring unit is in wireless electrical communication with the electronic device via the Internet or the like. Moreover, the monitoring unit selectively generates an alarm sequence when the monitoring unit detects that the vital signs have deviated from a pre-determined normal state. The electronic device generates an audible alarm when the monitoring unit generates the alarm sequence. In this way the electronic device notifies the first user that the second user is experiencing a medical emergency.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 31, 2017
    Date of Patent: November 13, 2018
    Inventor: Jennifer Wilkins
  • Patent number: 10123703
    Abstract: Individuals who suffer from certain kinds of medical conditions, particularly conditions that only sporadically exhibit measurable symptoms, can feel helpless in their attempts to secure access to medical care because, at least in part, they are left to the mercy of their condition to present symptoms at the right time to allow diagnosis and treatment. Providing these individuals with ambulatory extended-wear health monitors that record ECG and physiology, preferably available over-the-counter and without health insurance preauthorization, is a first step towards addressing their needs. In addition, these individuals need a way to gain entry into the health care system once a medically-actionable medical condition has been identified. Here, the ECG and physiology is downloaded and evaluated post-monitoring against medical diagnostic criteria.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 9, 2018
    Date of Patent: November 13, 2018
    Assignee: Bardy Diagnostics, Inc.
    Inventors: Gust H. Bardy, Jon Mikalson Bishay
  • Patent number: 10123704
    Abstract: A hybrid system is developed using thermal and electrical impedance imaging methods together. The innovation of the approach relies on the frequency dependence of the tissue's electrical impedance which facilitates the acquisition of multiple thermal images with currents at different frequencies injected to the region of the body under inspection. Proposed method without current application (in passive mode of operation) provides images which are obtained by standard thermal imagers. On the other hand, the application of the electrical current (in active mode of operation) increases the temperature contrast on the body surface depending on the electrical property of tissue. Therefore, the technique while increasing the thermal contrast provides frequency dependent conductivity distribution data which can be used as a basis for the detection of the breast carcinoma. The sensitivity of the technique is increased by an infrared camera with dual band (MWIR/LWIR) imaging capability.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 5, 2013
    Date of Patent: November 13, 2018
    Inventors: Nevzat Guneri Gencer, Hamza Feza Carlak, Cengiz Besikci
  • Patent number: 10123705
    Abstract: Coherent light is used to image cells/molecules at wavelengths in the near-infrared (NIR) region in second, third and fourth spectral windows. Optical attenuation from thin tissue slices of normal and malignant breast and prostate tissue, and pig brain are placed between matched bandpass filters, within desired windows and measured within an NIR spectral window at wavelengths selected to highlight the desired cells/molecules. Due to a reduction in scattering and minimal absorption, longer attenuation and clearer images can be seen in the second, third and fourth NIR windows compared to the conventional first NIR window. The spectral windows have uses in microscope imaging one or more collagens, elastins, lipids and carotenoids in arteries, bones, breast, cells, skin, intestines, bones, cracks, teeth, and blood due to less scattering of light and improved signal to noise to provide clearer images.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 22, 2016
    Date of Patent: November 13, 2018
    Inventor: Robert R. Alfano
  • Patent number: 10123706
    Abstract: Methods and apparatuses for generating a model of a subject's teeth. Described herein are intraoral scanning methods and apparatuses for generating a three-dimensional model of a subject's intraoral region (e.g., teeth) including both surface features and internal features. These methods and apparatuses may be used for identifying and evaluating lesions, caries and cracks in the teeth. Any of these methods and apparatuses may use minimum scattering coefficients and/or segmentation to form a volumetric model of the teeth.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 27, 2017
    Date of Patent: November 13, 2018
    Assignee: Align Technology, Inc.
    Inventors: Gilad Elbaz, Erez Lampert, Yossef Atiya, Avi Kopelman, Ofer Saphier, Maayan Moshe, Shai Ayal
  • Patent number: 10123707
    Abstract: Provided herein are system and methods for monitoring and guiding thermal therapy procedures within a human or animal tissue. The system comprises a therapeutic module configured to apply thermal treatment to a subject; an ultrasound imaging module; an optoacoustic imaging module; a processing module connected to both ultrasound and optoacoustic based imaging module; and an operating controlling module connected with said processing module and configured to manipulate at least one of said therapeutic module, ultrasound imaging module or optoacoustic imaging module. The calibration method is able to eliminate the inconsistency of optoacoustic based temperature measurements caused by sample-to-sample and spatial variations of Gruneisen parameter for different tissues. The method for temperature-structure imaging is able to generate both two dimensional and three dimensional co-registered structure and temperature images for the tissues inside a region of interest of a subject.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 2, 2015
    Date of Patent: November 13, 2018
    Assignee: TomoWave Laboratories, Inc.
    Inventors: Alexander A. Oraevsky, Elena Petrova, Sergey Ermilov
  • Patent number: 10123708
    Abstract: A system for facilitating measurement of a person's blood pressure having: a) a cuff that is configured to: i) be operatively situated in relationship to a person's arm; and ii) strategically exert different pressure on the person's arm to controllably restrict blood flow therein; and b) a base assembly that supports the cuff. The base assembly is configured to allow selective placement of the cuff in first and second different positions relative to the person with the person in a measurement taking position. The cuff in the first position is configured to be operatively situated in relationship to the person's left arm. The cuff in the second position is configured to be operatively situated in relationship to the person's right arm.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 27, 2014
    Date of Patent: November 13, 2018
    Assignee: higi SH LLC
    Inventors: John R. Collins, Jeffrey D. Flammer
  • Patent number: 10123709
    Abstract: A pulse wave measurement device includes a storage unit and a subtracter. When a light emitting element alternately switches between a lighting state in which the light emitting element emits light into a body and a non-lighting state in which the light emitting element does not emit light, the storage unit stores a value of a first digital signal representing an output state of a light receiving element that receives light transmitted through or reflected by the body at timing of the lighting state, and a value of a second digital signal representing an output state of the light receiving element at timing of the non-lighting state. The subtracter subtracts the second digital signal value stored in the storage unit from the first digital signal value stored in the storage unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 23, 2016
    Date of Patent: November 13, 2018
    Assignee: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOSHIBA
    Inventor: Shigeo Imai
  • Patent number: 10123710
    Abstract: A sensory-and-logic system comprises an illumination source configured to emit a blood-sensing light, a window through which the blood-sensing light passes en route to human tissue, an illumination receiver configured to measure the blood-sensing light reflected back through the window from the human tissue, a frame surrounding the window and elevating away from the window, and a pillow surrounding the frame and recessing from the frame and the window.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 30, 2014
    Date of Patent: November 13, 2018
    Assignee: MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING, LLC
    Inventors: Gabriel Michael Rask Gassoway, Gregory Kim Justice, Mohammad Sakeri
  • Patent number: 10123711
    Abstract: An integrated circuit device includes an insulating body provided with a number of electrically conductive leads and having a surface provided with a red LED aperture, an IR LED aperture and a photodetector aperture. The insulating body also includes an optical isolator optically separating the photodetector aperture from the red LED aperture and the IR LED aperture. A red LED is aligned with the red LED aperture, an IR LED is aligned with the IR LED aperture, and a photodetector is aligned with the photodetector aperture.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 10, 2013
    Date of Patent: November 13, 2018
    Assignee: Maxim Integrated Products, Inc.
    Inventors: Arpit Mehta, Richard I. Olsen, Daniel S. Christman
  • Patent number: 10123712
    Abstract: Anastomosis leak testers for testing for leaks in gastrointestinal anastomoses in patients include an inflation pump and a conduit part. The inflation pump has a compressible portion and a mechanism for providing a uni-directional flow of air through the inflation pump upon intermittent compressing thereof. Conduit parts have an interior space, a portion to be inserted into an anus of a patient or arm to be mated to a gastric tube, rectal tube or endoscope, a pressure relief valve and an indicator pin, and a rearward arm connected to the inflation pump. Upon actuation of the inflation pump, air flows through the inflation pump and through the conduit part into the patient's bowel. When the air pressure in the bowel exceeds a specified pressure, air is released through the pressure relief valve and ejects the indicator pin, which alerts the surgeon that the desired rectal pressure has been reached.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 28, 2012
    Date of Patent: November 13, 2018
    Assignee: Tools For Surgery, LLC
    Inventor: Arnold R Leiboff
  • Patent number: 10123713
    Abstract: A patient data sensor device has an implantable patient data sensor and an implantable data transmission mechanism, which is in signal connection with the patient data sensor. The data transmission mechanism has an antenna for telemetric data transmission to an external data collection unit. In addition, the data transmission mechanism has a carrier plate for electronic components. The latter are covered on the carrier plate, at least to one side, by a cover. The antenna is configured in an edge region of the carrier plate and running around the latter and around the electronic components. The result is a patient data sensor device which is more tolerable for the patient.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 24, 2009
    Date of Patent: November 13, 2018
    Assignee: RAUMEDIC AG
    Inventors: Karlheinz Göhler, Gerd Kunze, Christian Von Falkenhausen
  • Patent number: 10123714
    Abstract: High-accuracy magnetic measurement is performed by efficiently using nitrogen-vacancy pairs in all orientations. A magnetic measurement apparatus includes a diamond crystal and an image sensor. The diamond crystal has nitrogen-vacancy pairs. The image sensor detects the intensities of fluorescence generated by an exciting light applied to the diamond crystal by using a plurality of pixels. The nitrogen-vacancy pairs of the diamond crystal are made to one-to-one correspond to the pixels. The fluorescence generated by one nitrogen-vacancy pair is received by one pixel made to correspond to the nitrogen-vacancy pair.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 24, 2015
    Date of Patent: November 13, 2018
    Assignee: Renesas Electronics Corporation
    Inventors: Yuji Hatano, Koji Yamada, Takashi Yoshino
  • Patent number: 10123715
    Abstract: An initial set of parameters for operating one or more detection tools is automatically derived and subsequently adjusted so that each detection tool is more or less sensitive to signal characteristics in a region of interest. Detection tool(s) may be applied to physiological signals sensed from a patient (such as EEG signals) and may be configured to run in an implanted medical device that is programmable with the parameters to look for rhythmic activity, spiking, and power changes in the sensed signals, etc. A detection tool may be selected and parameter values derived in a logical sequence and/or in pairs based on a graphical representation of an activity type which may be selected by a user, for example, by clicking and dragging on the graphic via a GUI. Displayed simulations allow a user to assess what will be detected with a derived parameter set and then to adjust the sensitivity of the set or start over as desired.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 15, 2016
    Date of Patent: November 13, 2018
    Assignee: NeuroPace, Inc.
    Inventors: Felice Sun, Rosana Esteller, Adam Lee
  • Patent number: 10123716
    Abstract: A method and system for filtering a detected ECG signal are disclosed. In a first aspect, the method comprises filtering the detected ECG signal using a plurality of digital filters. The method includes adaptively selecting one of the plurality of digital filters to maintain a minimum signal-to-noise ratio (SNR). In a second aspect, the system comprises a wireless sensor device coupled to a user via at least one electrode, wherein the wireless sensor device includes a processor and a memory device coupled to the processor, wherein the memory device stores an application which, when executed by the processor, causes the processor to carry out the steps of the method.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 3, 2017
    Date of Patent: November 13, 2018
    Assignee: Vital Connect, Inc.
    Inventors: Ravi Narasimhan, Nersi Nazari, Nima Ferdosi
  • Patent number: 10123717
    Abstract: A medical lead with at least a distal portion thereof implantable in the brain of a patient is described, together with methods and systems for using the lead. The lead is provided with at least two sensing modalities (e.g., two or more sensing modalities for measurements of field potential measurements, neuronal single unit activity, neuronal multi unit activity, optical blood volume, optical blood oxygenation, voltammetry and rheoencephalography). Acquisition of measurements and the lead components and other components for accomplishing a measurement in each modality are also described as are various applications for the multimodal brain sensing lead.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 9, 2012
    Date of Patent: November 13, 2018
    Assignee: NeuroPace, Inc.
    Inventor: Thomas K. Tcheng
  • Patent number: 10123718
    Abstract: The present disclosure discuses systems and methods for detecting and recording bioelectric signals, and specifically bioelectrical signals generated by abdominal organs, such as the uterus. The disclosure discusses area electrodes and arrays of area electrodes. The area electrodes are defined in a metal layer and include an inner and outer diameter. The area electrodes are configured to detect electrical signals generated substantially perpendicular to a surface of the area electrode while rejecting electrical signals generated substantially parallel to the surface of the area electrode.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 26, 2015
    Date of Patent: November 13, 2018
    Assignee: University of Tenessee Research Foundation
    Inventor: Roger Charles Young
  • Patent number: 10123719
    Abstract: A technique to detect an eye potential of a wearer of an eyewear by using an electrode abutting on the glabella of the wearer has been known, but it is desirable to surely cause the electrode to abut on the glabella so as to prevent deterioration in the detection accuracy of detecting a biosignal indicating an eye potential, myogenic potential, brain wave or the like. In view of this, an eyewear including: a frame; a first electrode that abuts on a glabella of a wearer of the eyewear; and an electrode holding unit that holds the first electrode such that a distance between the frame and the first electrode is changeable is included.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 4, 2018
    Date of Patent: November 13, 2018
    Assignee: JINS Inc.
    Inventors: Kazutaka Inoue, Susumu Ichinohe, Jyunko Nakajima
  • Patent number: 10123720
    Abstract: Systems and methods which generate a sequence of images using turbo spin echo magnetic resonance imaging which are retrospectively correlated with periodic motion occurring within a subject being imaged are described. In one embodiment, k-space measurements (or the measurements from which images are formed) are captured during, and correlated with, different phases in a cardiac cycle of the subject. With this sequence, the images that are produced are able to show, and/or compensate for, motion correlated with the cardiac cycle of the subject.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 6, 2014
    Date of Patent: November 13, 2018
    Assignee: University of Utah Research Foundation
    Inventors: Dennis L. Parker, Jason K. Mendes, Jordan Hulet
  • Patent number: 10123721
    Abstract: A method of determining microvascular architecture is disclosed. Dynamic contrast-enhanced magnetic resonance data acquired from a contrast agent administered to at least a part of a subject to be examined. From the dynamic contrast-enhanced magnetic resonance data a leakage parameter (kep) and a dispersion parameter (k) are computed. Effects of both convective dispersion and extravasation kinetics of contrast agent are taken into account.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 27, 2014
    Date of Patent: November 13, 2018
    Assignee: KONINKLIJKE PHILIPS N.V.
    Inventors: Marcel Breeuwer, Massimo Mischi, Hessel Wijkstra
  • Patent number: 10123722
    Abstract: The invention provides a multi-sensor system that uses an algorithm based on adaptive filtering to monitor a patient's respiratory rate. The system features a first sensor which is selected from the group consisting of an impedance pneumography sensor, an ECG sensor, a PPG sensor, * and a motion sensor (e.g., an accelerometer) configured to attach to the patient's torso and measure therefrom a motion signal. The system further comprises (iii) a processing system, configured to operably connect to the first and motion sensors, and to determine a respiration rate value by applying filter parameters obtained from the first sensor signals to the motion sensor signals.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 14, 2009
    Date of Patent: November 13, 2018
    Assignee: SOTERA WIRELESS, INC.
    Inventors: Matt Banet, Devin McCombie, Marshal Dhillon
  • Patent number: 10123723
    Abstract: A catheter connector has a hydrophobic end cap or washer located around the end opening to the connector's lumen. The diameter and length of the lumen below the washer is sufficiently large enough to accommodate an absorbent tubular filter that changes color when exposed to fluid. The washer acts to limit the size of the water droplet that might adhere to the end of the catheter and help maintain surface tension on the droplet to prevent it from entering the lumen. The hydrophilic tubular filter absorbs any water that might pass by the washer and thus keeps the lumen hole open.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 10, 2015
    Date of Patent: November 13, 2018
    Assignee: InnerSpace Neuro Solutions, Inc.
    Inventors: Donald Eugene Bobo, Sr., David Robbins Asbury
  • Patent number: 10123724
    Abstract: A system and method for monitoring the tidal volume of an individual to diagnose a condition is disclosed. The system includes an electrically-conductive, elastomeric band; and a microprocessor having memory. The microprocessor is in electrical communication with said band and has functionality to monitor the respiratory activity of the individual during a period of time, collect raw data from 30 times to 34 times per second, average the data over 9-34 readings, blur from 0.3 seconds to 1.0 seconds of said averaged data to filter out artifacts; determine the beginning of a breath and the end of a breath based on said blurred data; and record an adverse event if a pre-determined period of time has elapsed without a new breath commencing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 5, 2016
    Date of Patent: November 13, 2018
    Inventor: David T. Kuller
  • Patent number: 10123725
    Abstract: A method of forecasting subjective efficacy of a hearing prosthesis implanted in a recipient, including subjecting a recipient to a plurality of temporally spaced aural training tasks, the aural training tasks evoking hearing percepts with the hearing prosthesis, obtaining first data indicative of the recipient's ability to hear with the hearing prosthesis based on performance by the recipient of the temporally spaced aural training tasks, and forecasting second data based on the first data, wherein the second data are indicative of the recipient's ability to hear with the hearing prosthesis at one or more temporal locations in the future.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 13, 2015
    Date of Patent: November 13, 2018
    Assignee: Cochlear Limited
    Inventor: Sean Lineaweaver
  • Patent number: 10123726
    Abstract: A physiological measurement system has a sensor, a processor, a communications link and information elements. The sensor is configured to transmit light having a plurality of wavelengths into a tissue site and to generate a sensor signal responsive to the transmitted light after tissue attenuation. The attenuated light can be used by the system to determine a plurality of physiological measurements. The processor is configured to operate on the sensor signal so as to derive at least one physiological parameter after which of the plurality of physiological measurements the system is configured to or capable of measuring.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 14, 2015
    Date of Patent: November 13, 2018
    Assignee: CERCACOR LABORATORIES, INC.
    Inventors: Ammar Al-Ali, Massi Joe E. Kiani, Walter M. Weber
  • Patent number: 10123727
    Abstract: A body-mountable light sensing device includes a photodiode configured to receive light from a portion of subsurface vasculature and electronics configured to operate the photodiode to measure the received light. The electronics include a photodiode voltage source configured to reverse bias the photodiode, a current mirror, and a sigma-delta modulator configured to generate a digital output related to the received light and having a high resolution while using low power. The digital output could be used to determine a pulse rate or other properties of blood in the portion of subsurface vasculature by detecting absorption of ambient light by blood in the portion of subsurface vasculature. Components of the body-mountable device could be embedded in a polymeric material configured for mounting to a surface of an eye. The digital output and/or related information could be wirelessly communicated by the body-mountable device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 30, 2017
    Date of Patent: November 13, 2018
    Assignee: Verily Life Sciences LLC
    Inventors: Robert Francis Wiser, Brian Otis
  • Patent number: 10123728
    Abstract: A catheter stabilization device includes a medical connector and a docking pod. The medical connector is configured to connect to a medical implement. The docking pod has an internal fluid path, a first opening, and an inlet opening. The first opening may be placed in fluid communication with a catheter. A docking pod adhesive layer that is located at least partially beneath at least a portion of the docking pod secures the docking pod to a patient. The device also includes an adherent substrate with a first film layer and at least a second film layer. The first and second film layers at least partially define a fluid pathway that extends through the adherent substrate and fluidly connects the medical connector and the inlet opening of the docking pod.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 2, 2016
    Date of Patent: November 13, 2018
    Assignee: NP Medical Inc.
    Inventors: Luis Maseda, Todd Chelak, Nicholas Dennis, Ian Kimball
  • Patent number: 10123729
    Abstract: An apparatus for modifying alarms at a medical device for alarm fatigue management is provided and includes an alarm monitor, an alarm filter, an alarm modifier, a memory element for storing data, and a processor that executes instructions associated with the data, wherein the processor and the memory element cooperate such that the apparatus is configured for receiving an alarm condition from an alarm management engine, the alarm condition based on an alarm fatigue level of a user of the medical device, the alarm fatigue level based on at least a user fatigue model, a medical device model and a patient condition, receiving an alarm from the medical device, modifying the alarm according to the alarm condition, the alarm condition being configured to increase a likelihood of the user responding to the modified alarm, and generating an alarm indicator based on the modification.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 12, 2015
    Date of Patent: November 13, 2018
    Assignee: NANTHEALTH, INC.
    Inventors: David Dyell, Christopher Rogowski, Scott Kahler, Jennifer Milan
  • Patent number: 10123730
    Abstract: The invention relates to a method and system for determining the cardiorespiratory fitness level of a person, with the aid of freely performed exercise in which training: •the physiological intensity of the person is measured periodically during the exercise session (5) •the external work output of the exercise session is measured simultaneously relative to the measured intensity (6), •from each period's measured intensity value and external work output, the representativeness of the values measured is determined (8.1, 8.2), in order to determine the fitness level using the following criteria: ?the physiological intensity should be stabilized relative to the external work output, ?the external work output should be within a selected range, ?the physiological intensity should be greater than a selected lower limit, in which case, a fitness level estimate is defined (8.3) for each accepted period as well as a fitness from several estimates.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 12, 2012
    Date of Patent: November 13, 2018
    Assignee: Firstbeat Technologies Oy
    Inventors: Sami Saalasti, Aki Pulkkinen
  • Patent number: 10123731
    Abstract: A sensor including electrodes, a control module and a physical layer module. The electrodes are configured to (i) attach to a patient, and (ii) receive a first electromyographic signal from the patient. The control module is connected to the electrodes. The control module is configured to (i) detect the first electromyographic signal, and (ii) generate a first voltage signal. The physical layer module is configured to: receive a payload request from a console interface module or a nerve integrity monitoring device; and based on the payload request, (i) upconvert the first voltage signal to a first radio frequency signal, and (ii) wirelessly transmit the first radio frequency signal from the sensor to the console interface module or the nerve integrity monitoring device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 8, 2014
    Date of Patent: November 13, 2018
    Assignee: Medtronic Xomed, Inc.
    Inventors: Richard L. Brown, John G. Pollock, Jeff R. Justis, Kevin L. McFarlin, Randal C. Schulhauser, Tyler S. Stevenson
  • Patent number: 10123732
    Abstract: Support structures for positioning sensors on a physiologic tunnel for measuring physical, chemical and biological parameters of the body and to produce an action according to the measured value of the parameters. The support structure includes a sensor fitted on the support structures using a special geometry for acquiring continuous and undisturbed data on the physiology of the body. Signals are transmitted to a remote station by wireless transmission such as by electromagnetic waves, radio waves, infrared, sound and the like or by being reported locally by audio or visual transmission. The physical and chemical parameters include brain function, metabolic function, hydrodynamic function, hydration status, levels of chemical compounds in the blood, and the like. The support structure includes patches, clips, eyeglasses, head mounted gear and the like, containing passive or active sensors positioned at the end of the tunnel with sensing systems positioned on and accessing a physiologic tunnel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 29, 2014
    Date of Patent: November 13, 2018
    Assignee: Geelux Holdings, Ltd.
    Inventor: Marcio Marc Abreu
  • Patent number: 10123733
    Abstract: A method of measuring a characteristic of a skin, including varying an air pressure in a chamber positioned adjacent to a skin, in which the chamber has an opening that exposes the skin to changes in the air pressure in the chamber. A plurality of measurements of surface profiles of the skin are made over a period of time as the surface profile of the skin varies in response to changes in the air pressure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 1, 2012
    Date of Patent: November 13, 2018
    Inventors: Nicholas Hunter-Jones, Alexander Isakov
  • Patent number: 10123734
    Abstract: Disclosed herein are devices, methods and systems for monitoring and detection of pressure on a part of a body of a user. In an embodiment, a device includes a substrate having a contact surface for contacting a user, one or more sacs associated with the contact surface of the substrate, and one or more sensors in communication with the one or more sacs, the one or more sensors adapted to measure changes in pressure in the one or more sacs. The sacs contain a fluidic material configured to transmit pressure. The fluidic material is further configured to be shock-absorbing and pressure-relieving such that the fluidic material is displaceable by an action of the user contacting the contact surface causing the pressure in the fluidic material to be redistributed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 1, 2017
    Date of Patent: November 13, 2018
    Assignee: REQBO APS
    Inventors: Jesper Fleischer, Anders Geert Jensen
  • Patent number: 10123735
    Abstract: Disclosed is a method for an electronic device. The method may include: acquiring a galvanic skin response; generating a first parameter for a first interval and a second parameter for a second interval based on the galvanic skin response, the second interval being an interval before the first interval; determining a first threshold corresponding to the first interval based on the second parameter; and determining an activity state of the first interval based on the first threshold and the first parameter corresponding to the first interval.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 4, 2015
    Date of Patent: November 13, 2018
    Assignees: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd., Seoul National University R&DB Foundation
    Inventors: Hyun-Jae Baek, Kwang-Suk Park, Sang-Bae Park, Do-Yoon Kim, Jung-Taek Oh, Jae-Geol Cho, Byung-Hun Choi, Sang-Won Seo, Hee-Nam Yoon, Da-Woon Jung, Sang-Ho Choi, Su-Hwan Hwang
  • Patent number: 10123736
    Abstract: A system for monitoring use of knee joint flexibility rehabilitation apparatus comprises a knee joint flexibility rehabilitation apparatus, a sensor and a monitor configured to receive and display a signal from the sensor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 27, 2017
    Date of Patent: November 13, 2018
    Assignee: Xeras Medical Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Mark S. Malone, Cory R. A. Hallam
  • Patent number: 10123737
    Abstract: Systems and methods for treating a subject with a psychiatric disorder are provided in which a therapy session is conducted. In the therapy session, each respective expression image in a plurality of expression images is sequentially displayed. Each expression image is independently associated with an expression. The successive display of images is construed as a tiled series of expression image subsets, each consisting of N expression images. Upon completion of the display of each respective subset, the user is challenged as to whether the first and the last images in the respective subset exhibit the same emotion. A score is determined for the respective subset based on whether the subject learned to respond correctly. The number of images in each subset is adjusted to a new number based on these scores. A treatment regimen is prescribed to the subject for the psychiatric disorder based at least in part on the scores.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 23, 2015
    Date of Patent: November 13, 2018
    Assignee: ICAHN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AT MOUNT SINAI
    Inventors: Brian M. Iacoviello, Dennis S. Charney
  • Patent number: 10123738
    Abstract: Methods and apparatus for diagnosing cardiovascular health in a patient by monitoring changes in skin redness levels, which is associated with perfusion and ability of circulatory system to adapt to physical exertion. Color detectors including colorimeters and spectrophotometers may be used to monitor and quantify skin color. Wet run solutions such as acetylcholine solutions may be applied to the skin area being monitored. Skin redness can be monitored during the course of exercise or a stress test, as well as during recovery. Wearable color detector devices can be worn by patients during exercise.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 3, 2017
    Date of Patent: November 13, 2018
    Inventor: Spyros Kokolis
  • Patent number: 10123739
    Abstract: The monitoring device provides value to parents by assisting with monitoring their infants via a convenient sensor package, straightforward interface, and informative data. With movement, orientation, and temperature data, some strong indicators of general well-being can be monitored and conclusions extracted without the parent needing to be constantly involved. The low-power transceiver technology also means that the device can integrate with smart devices for even more convenience. Such a smart device can in turn communicate with modem large-scale data storage and analysis centers for data logging and analytics, which allows useful analytics to be passed back to the user. The advanced sensing, displaying, and analyzing of data makes the invention stands out in the field of infant monitoring devices.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 6, 2015
    Date of Patent: November 13, 2018
    Assignee: MONDEVICES INC.
    Inventors: Benjamin Cooper, Jeffrey Tagen
  • Patent number: 10123740
    Abstract: The wearable action-aware device includes a clothing body, a signal receiving and computing element, and a conductive line made of conductive fabric. Two ends of the conductive line are electrically connected to the signal receiving and computing element, respectively, to form a circuit, and both the signal receiving and computing element and the conductive line are disposed on the clothing body. An exposed side of the conductive line has electrical conductivity, and the circuit is disposed on a part of the clothing body corresponding to a part of a body that needs to be measured. Action information of a user can be measured when the user wears the present invention wearable action-aware device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 2, 2016
    Date of Patent: November 13, 2018
    Assignee: Far Eastern New Century Corporation
    Inventors: Min-Si Yan, Wei-Che Hung, Yueh-Hsien Lin, Chih-Ting Li