Patents Issued in April 30, 2019
  • Patent number: 10271763
    Abstract: A guidewire insertion tool configured to measure a length of an anatomic region. The tool can include a housing, a light chamber, and a track at least partially extending through the light chamber. The track is adapted to guide a guidewire as it is advanced through the insertion tool. The tool can also include an optical sensor assembly in optical communication with the light chamber. The optical sensor assembly can include one or more light sources, an optical sensor, and a magnifier. The one or more light sources can be adapted to direct light toward a portion of the guidewire within the track, and the optical sensor can be adapted to receive reflected light from the portion of the guidewire within the tract. A processing unit can analyze data from the optical sensor assembly to determine the length of the anatomic region and output the measurement to a display.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 23, 2014
    Date of Patent: April 30, 2019
    Inventors: Suman K. Mulumudi, Mahesh S. Mulumudi
  • Patent number: 10271764
    Abstract: Intraluminal devices with deployable elements are described. An intraluminal device includes, but is not limited to, a shell dimensioned and structured to travel through a biological lumen of a subject; and at least one deployable element, the at least one deployable element being actuatable from a first configuration to at least a second configuration, wherein the at least one deployable element extends further outwards from the shell in the second configuration than in the first configuration.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 2, 2016
    Date of Patent: April 30, 2019
    Assignee: ELWHA LLC
    Inventors: Elizabeth A. Sweeney, Jordin T. Kare
  • Patent number: 10271765
    Abstract: Embodiments provide a system to detect abnormal breathing by a person, such as a baby, through a piece of clothing worn by the person. The piece of clothing may be adapted to include a sound sensor that can collect breathing sounds by the person. The piece of clothing may also be adapted to include an inflatable neck support that can be automatically inflated without the person's intervention. The breathing sound signals by the person can be processed for determining whether the person breathing abnormally. When it is determined that the person is breathing abnormally, an instruction to inflate the inflatable neck support of the clothing may be generated. Such an instruction can be transmitted to the clothing wirelessly to effectuate the inflation of the inflatable neck support so the person's incorrect breathing posture that causes the abnormal breathing can be addressed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 19, 2018
    Date of Patent: April 30, 2019
    Assignee: WELLEN SHAM
    Inventor: Wellen Sham
  • Patent number: 10271766
    Abstract: Certain exemplary embodiments can provide a system, machine, device, manufacture, circuit, composition of matter, and/or user interface adapted for and/or resulting from, and/or a method and/or machine-readable medium comprising machine-implementable instructions for, activities that can comprise and/or relate to, facilitating determination of the oxygen consumption, carbon dioxide production, respiratory exchange ratio, and/or energy expenditure of a mammal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 21, 2016
    Date of Patent: April 30, 2019
    Assignee: Barron Associates, Inc.
    Inventors: B. Eugene Parker, Jr., Kevin M. Ehlmann, William T. Gressick
  • Patent number: 10271767
    Abstract: Automated analysis and interpretation of spirograms is provided to assess lung function of a subject. If the shape of a spirogram plot is deemed suitably reliable, the spirogram may be subsequently used for diagnostic purposes. Quality control of spirograms and/or interpretation of reliable spirograms may use shape templates corresponding to common test problems and/or typical lung diseases.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 24, 2012
    Date of Patent: April 30, 2019
    Assignee: KONINKLIJKE PHILIPS N.V.
    Inventors: Eric Helfenbein, Sophia Huai Zhou, Martin Mason
  • Patent number: 10271768
    Abstract: A system for treating a patient with neurological disorders of movement includes a patient computing device for use in rehabilitative training and a sensor worn about a body part being rehabilitated. A healthcare computing device is used by a healthcare professional to assist remote patient rehabilitation by accepting input signals and determining for the patient a rehab protocol depending on selected parameters, and determining for the patient a behavior shaping target depending on selected parameters and the rehab protocol and behavior shaping target is communicated to the patient while the patient is undergoing rehabilitation. A plurality of remote health data sites and other public repositories of health data of patients undergoing rehabilitation following neurological events can be included. The remote computing device can include a data repository of publicly available patient data and patient data gathered by system of present invention.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 19, 2011
    Date of Patent: April 30, 2019
    Assignee: Jogohealth Inc.
    Inventor: Sanjai Murali
  • Patent number: 10271769
    Abstract: A performance information notification device according to an application example includes: an acquisition unit which acquires information indicating at least one of load exercise and rest in interval exercise; and a notification unit which reports performance information about at least one of a time during which the load exercise is carried out and a time during which the rest is carried out, based on the information indicating at least one of the load exercise and the rest.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 17, 2017
    Date of Patent: April 30, 2019
    Assignee: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATION
    Inventors: Eiji Miyasaka, Osamu Yamada
  • Patent number: 10271770
    Abstract: A technique for measuring and collecting human tremor data includes measuring motions of a handheld tool manipulated by a user while performing a task with the handheld tool. The motions are measured using an inertial measurement unit (“IMU”) disposed within a handle of the handheld tool. Motion data of the motions is recorded to a motion log stored within a memory unit of the handheld tool. The motion data contains information for determining a severity of tremors that occurred while the user performed the task with the handheld tool. The motion log is communicated to a remote server for analysis.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 20, 2015
    Date of Patent: April 30, 2019
    Assignee: Verily Life Sciences LLC
    Inventors: Anupam J. Pathak, Sarel Kobus Jooste
  • Patent number: 10271771
    Abstract: A medical device capable of determining its location is provided. The medical device comprises a memory, one or more antennas, one or more processors coupled with the memory and the one or more antennas, a location manager component executable by the one or more processors. The location manager component is configured to receive first location information from a first location information source and second location information from a second location information source, to rank the first location information source and the second location information source according to a hierarchy of location information sources, the hierarchy of location information sources specifying that the first location information source is of higher rank than the second location information source, determine an approximate location of the medical device based on the first location information, and improve the accuracy of the approximate location based on the second location information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 22, 2016
    Date of Patent: April 30, 2019
    Assignee: ZOLL MEDICAL CORPORATION
    Inventor: Guy Robert Johnson
  • Patent number: 10271772
    Abstract: A system for warning of protruding body parts of a medical vehicle occupant includes a sensor, a feedback device, and a processing circuit. The sensor is configured to generate sensor data based on a position of the occupant, and the processing circuit is configured to determine a contour of the medical vehicle, detect a protruding extremity of the occupant based on the sensor data and the contour, and generate a warning using the feedback device, where the warning is based on the detected protruding extremity.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 7, 2017
    Date of Patent: April 30, 2019
    Assignee: ELWHA LLC
    Inventors: Roderick A. Hyde, Jordin T. Kare, Eric C. Leuthardt, Richard T. Lord, Robert W. Lord, Clarence T. Tegreene, Lowell L. Wood, Jr.
  • Patent number: 10271773
    Abstract: A system and method are described herein for a sensor device which biomechanically detects in real-time a user's movement state and posture and then provides real-time feedback to the user based on the user's real-time posture. The feedback is provided through immediate sensory feedback through the sensor device (e.g., a sound or vibration) as well as through an avatar within an associated application with which the sensor device communicates. The sensor device detects the user's movement state and posture by capturing data from a tri-axial accelerometer in the sensor device. Streamed data from the accelerometer is normalized to correct for sensor errors as well as variations in sensor placement and orientation. Normalization is based on accelerometer data collected while the user is wearing the device and performing specific actions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 28, 2018
    Date of Patent: April 30, 2019
    Assignee: SEISMIC HOLDINGS, INC.
    Inventors: Andrew Robert Chang, Monisha Perkash, C. Charles Wang, Andreas Martin Hauenstein
  • Patent number: 10271774
    Abstract: An activity tracking system includes a sensor device and a display device. The sensor device is configured to be carried by the user and includes at least one sensor configured to obtain the activity data for the user. The display device includes a display screen. The display device is configured to receive the activity data obtained by the sensor device and display the activity data about a circular axis on the display screen. The circular axis is provided as a solitary closed loop circular axis with respect to a defined center point. The activity data includes first data on one side of the circular axis and mutually exclusive second data on an opposite side of the circular axis. The first data includes a first start time and a first end time, the first end time occurring in a selected day and the first start time occurring in a previous day.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 16, 2017
    Date of Patent: April 30, 2019
    Assignee: Under Armour, Inc.
    Inventors: Kyler Maxwell Eastman, Clifford C. Drane, Jr., William Wiley Fikes
  • Patent number: 10271775
    Abstract: A method for determining a value of a performance indicator for a periodic movement performed by a human or an animal. The method includes receiving (210) time series data from an inertial sensor used for sensing the periodic movement, partitioning (220) the received time series data into periods of the movement, and transforming (230) the time series data of each period into a data representation of a defined size. The method further includes classifying (240) each period into a movement class, and determining (250) a value of a performance indicator for at least one period of the movement, based on the data representation and on the movement class of the at least one period.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 4, 2014
    Date of Patent: April 30, 2019
    Assignee: WEMEMOVE AB
    Inventors: Christer Norstrom, Anders Holst, Magnus Jonsson
  • Patent number: 10271776
    Abstract: A method for analyzing and monitoring mobility abnormalities of human patients is provided herein. The method includes the following stages: capturing a physiotherapeutic sequence of a scene that includes 3D positioning and orientations of the body parts of the human patient over time; monitoring, over a physiotherapeutic session, the set of key points on the human patient while the human patient performs physiotherapeutic exercises comprising a set of predefined sequences of body-related and limb-related postures and gestures; and analyzing the monitored set of key points during the physiotherapeutic session, to yield an assessment of a level of compliance of the human patient in performing the physical training or physiotherapeutic exercises, based at least partially on the abnormality mobility profile. Additionally, an analysis during the physiotherapeutic session may be carried out, to yield an assessment of a level of compliance of the human patient in performing specified physiotherapeutic exercises.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 3, 2011
    Date of Patent: April 30, 2019
    Inventors: Mordechai Shani, Yoram Feldman
  • Patent number: 10271777
    Abstract: A system and method for verifying patient identity including a heart monitor, a memory, and a processor. The heart monitor may be adapted to collect a baseline ECG signal from a patient and a monitored ECG signal from the patient. The memory may be in electrical communication with the heart monitor and adapted to store a plurality of baseline statistical characteristics of the baseline ECG signal and a plurality of monitored statistical characteristics of the monitored ECG signal. The processor may be in electrical communication with the memory and adapted to compare the plurality of baseline statistical characteristics to the plurality of monitored statistical characteristics and determine a likelihood of patient match. The heart monitor may be configured for further collection of the monitored ECG signal if the likelihood of patient match is greater than a threshold level.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 26, 2016
    Date of Patent: April 30, 2019
    Assignee: Medicomp, Inc.
    Inventors: Scott Baskerville, Sara England
  • Patent number: 10271778
    Abstract: A system and method for controlling a light emitting device for an optical sensor based on signal quality and/or power consumption requirements. Drive current and/or integration time is controlled as a function of detected ambient light or signal quality. As the signal quality decreases the drive current or integration time can be adjusted to provide a more usable signal. If after some criteria for reduction, such as “time on” or high signal quality, then the drive current can be decreased.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 2, 2009
    Date of Patent: April 30, 2019
    Assignee: Nonin Medical, Inc.
    Inventors: Philip O. Isaacson, Josh D. Schilling
  • Patent number: 10271779
    Abstract: A method for monitoring autoregulation includes using a processor for receiving blood pressure data and oxygen saturation data from a patient, fitting a dynamic model to the blood pressure data and the oxygen saturation data to determine one or more parameters of the dynamic model indicative of autoregulation, and determining the patient's autoregulation status based on the one or more parameters.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 27, 2016
    Date of Patent: April 30, 2019
    Assignee: Covidien LP
    Inventors: Paul S. Addison, James N. Watson
  • Patent number: 10271780
    Abstract: The present invention provides systems and methods employing a surface enhanced Raman biosensor and sensing devices for collecting spatially offset Raman spectra from the biosensor. In certain embodiments, the present invention provides systems and methods for quantifying the concentration of an analyte in a subject, and/or identifying the presence or absence of an analyte in a subject, from a plurality of spatially offset Raman spectra generated from a surface enhanced Raman biosensor implanted in a subject.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 23, 2011
    Date of Patent: April 30, 2019
    Assignee: Northwestern University
    Inventors: Richard P. Van Duyne, Matthew R. Glucksberg, Joseph T. Walsh, Jr., Jonathan M. Yuen, Nilam C. Shah
  • Patent number: 10271781
    Abstract: The present invention provides a surgically invasive pointed article for skin penetration and capillary whole blood extraction whose penetration ability can be disabled after use by deforming the tips. The present invention is made by injection molding a plastic needle 35 having an anchoring means 45 using a first material, followed by another injection molding process to over-mold a first body segment 20 and second body segment 30 using a second material to encase the plastic needle 35 thereby anchoring the plastic needle 35 to prevent further movement of the plastic needle 35. The encasing of the second material provide a barrier isolating the plastic needle 35 from the ambient to protect the tips 50 from damage and once sterilized, to conserve the sterile conditions till point of use. The barrier formed by a second over-molding process comprises a detachable cap 20 and a body 30.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 5, 2012
    Date of Patent: April 30, 2019
    Inventor: Chee Yen Lim
  • Patent number: 10271782
    Abstract: A suction drain device of a disclosed liquid collecting apparatus actively pushes and pulls blood. This achieves liquid collection at high speed even under decreased pressure depending on a physiological state of an animal. Moreover, the liquid collecting apparatus includes a first flow path and a second flow path having a given length. Accordingly, the flow path with a given length set in advance and thus a known volume allows collection of a given amount volume of blood without measuring a length and an amount of blood using a volume measuring device. Accordingly, no need of the measuring device allows reduction in size of the liquid collecting apparatus. Consequently, the liquid collecting apparatus can be installed adjacent to the animal to achieve reduction in dead volume. Moreover, blood is flown to a fourth flow path branched with a connecting terminal, and is also flown to the second flow path branched with a connecting terminal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 3, 2012
    Date of Patent: April 30, 2019
    Assignees: SHIMADZU CORPORATION, NATIONAL INSTITUTES FOR QUANTUM AND RADIOLOGICAL SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY, NATIONAL CENTER FOR GERIATRICS AND GERONTOLOGY
    Inventors: Nobuya Hashizume, Keishi Kitamura, Takahiro Nishimoto, Yuichi Kimura, Hiroshi Toyama, Takashi Yamada
  • Patent number: 10271783
    Abstract: A stimulus presenting system according to the present disclosure includes a biological information acquirer that acquires biological information on a user; a mental state estimator that estimates a mental state of the user on the basis of the biological information; a target state setter that sets a target mental state after the mental state estimator estimates that the mental state is a first mental state; a scenario creator that creates a scenario including at least one stimulus presenting content possibly influencing the mental state on the basis of the set target mental state; a content presenter that presents the stimulus presenting content on the basis of the created scenario; and a mental state determiner that determines whether a second mental state estimated by the mental state estimator on the basis of biological information acquired after the presentation of the stimulus presenting content is started attains the set target mental state.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 18, 2016
    Date of Patent: April 30, 2019
    Assignee: PANASONIC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kazunori Yamada, Kenji Mase, Junya Morita
  • Patent number: 10271784
    Abstract: In some implementations, a computing device can remind a user to perform sleep ritual activities. The computing device can automatically determine the user's sleep ritual. The users sleep ritual can include various activities performed before going to sleep. The computing device can detect when the user performs the various sleep ritual activities. The computing device can remind the user about specific sleep ritual activities when the user forgets to perform the sleep ritual activities before going to sleep. In some implementation, the computing device can perform sleep ritual activities (e.g., turning off devices, locking doors, setting the air conditioning, etc.) on behalf of the user in response to user input. In some implementation, the computing device can perform sleep ritual activities on behalf of the user automatically and without user input.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 30, 2015
    Date of Patent: April 30, 2019
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Roy J. Raymann, Wren N. Dougherty, Divya Nag, Deborah M. Lambert, Stephanie Greer, Thomas R. Gruber
  • Patent number: 10271785
    Abstract: A method of controlling an anti-snoring device is disclosed. The method includes the steps of capturing sound data within a period of time, sampling the sound data continuously, extracting multiple sound characteristic sections arising periodically from the sound data, and activating the anti-snoring device to stop snoring when the repeated occurrence count of the sound characteristic sections reach a threshold value.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 27, 2016
    Date of Patent: April 30, 2019
    Assignees: Inventec (Pudong) Technology Corporation, INVENTEC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Tzu-Li Chang, Jui-Che Tu, Chih-Chung Yin, Hung-Yen Lai, Kun-Hung Lin
  • Patent number: 10271786
    Abstract: Reconstruction of cardiac information associated with a heart rhythm disorder includes accessing a plurality of neighboring cardiac signals and eliminating far-field activations from the neighboring cardiac signals using one or more divergence criteria that define local activations, where the divergence criteria is associated with divergence among the plurality of neighboring cardiac signals. The local activations in the plurality of neighboring cardiac signals may be used to construct a clinical representation of the heart rhythm disorder.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 7, 2016
    Date of Patent: April 30, 2019
    Assignees: 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
  • Patent number: 10271787
    Abstract: Electrical feedback is provided to a user who cannot receive full sensation from a body part due to amputation, neuropathy or other condition. A sensor array includes an array of capacitive force-sensing elements operative to sense axial and shear forces applied to that element. Temperature may also be sensed at each force-sensor location. An electrode matrix, adapted for external placement in an area on a user of the sensor array, includes an array of electrodes in physical correspondence to the array of capacitive sensing elements of the sensor array. An electronic controller is configured to receive electrical signals representative of the axial and shear forces applied to the sensor array and drive the electrode matrix with electrical stimulation signals corresponding to the electrical signals received from the sensor array, thereby enabling the user to experience force and/or temperature sensations experienced by the body part through the electrode matrix.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 1, 2016
    Date of Patent: April 30, 2019
    Inventors: Richard H. Harrington, Michael Rontal, Charles W. Krapf, Frank J. Fedel, Doug Briggs
  • Patent number: 10271788
    Abstract: The present invention describes an apparatus and method for determining the energy expenditure of a subject by indirect calorimetry where respiratory gases O2 and CO2 are captured in a tent mask coupled through a pneumotach flow meter to a vacuum inlet of a blower fan whose speed is controlled by a computer running a program that ensures that the bias flow being drawn through the mask always exceeds the subject's peak expiratory flow. VO2 and VCO2 and flow values are measured on a breath-by-breath basis and used in arriving at a bias flow adjustment voltage to be applied to the blower fan for adjusting its speed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 26, 2016
    Date of Patent: April 30, 2019
    Assignee: MGC Diagnostics Corp.
    Inventors: John A. Norlien, Daniel Stout
  • Patent number: 10271789
    Abstract: The present invention provides a method for measuring the body fat percent and fat accretion during pregnancy, which preferably utilizes a Fourier transform near infrared spectroscopy (FT-NIR) fat determination method. The FT-NIR results can be used to measure and monitor body fat percent, and used to measure the mother's fat accretion rate. A method to monitor weight gain in a pregnant subject is provided wherein the body fat percentage of the subject is maintained at a constant level during gestation, and the subject's fat accretion rate is monitored so as to follow the fat accretion rate provided by using pre-defined fat accretion determination formulae. By measurement of the body fat percent and fat accretion rates, the weight gain of a subject can be monitored and/or controlled during pregnancy.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 13, 2015
    Date of Patent: April 30, 2019
    Assignee: NIR Technologies Inc.
    Inventor: Hormoz Azizian
  • Patent number: 10271790
    Abstract: A method and system for training proper gait of a user, the system including at least one inertial sensor, a memory, a controller, and an output interface. The memory is for storing information for an ideal walking or running gait, the information including information for an ideal bounce or acceleration over time. The method can be implemented by the controller and includes displaying an animation of an ideal walking or running gait and an actual gait of the user, both simultaneously with cadence synchronized, and also providing to the output interface a comparison of an actual bounce of the user with the ideal bounce.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 20, 2017
    Date of Patent: April 30, 2019
    Inventor: Dalsu Lee
  • Patent number: 10271791
    Abstract: A wearable monitoring device includes a plurality of cardiac sensing electrodes, a monitor, at least one motion sensor, and a controller. The plurality of cardiac sensing electrodes are positioned outside a body of a subject and to detect cardiac information of the subject. The monitor administers a predetermined test to the subject, and has a user interface configured to receive quality of life information from the subject. The at least one motion sensor is positioned outside the body of the subject and to detect subject motion during the predetermined test. The controller is communicatively coupled to the plurality of cardiac sensing electrodes, the monitor, and the at least one motion sensor, and receives and stores the detected cardiac information, the quality of life information, and the detected subject motion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 14, 2017
    Date of Patent: April 30, 2019
    Assignee: ZOLL Medical Corporation
    Inventors: Edward J. Donnelly, Thomas E. Kaib, Marshal W. Linder, Steven J. Szymkiewicz, Jason T. Whiting, Shane S. Volpe
  • Patent number: 10271792
    Abstract: A biological information measuring apparatus (measuring apparatus) includes a band which fixes a case unit to a living body. The band is provided with a recessed groove part on a side facing the living body. The groove part has a depth of 1020 ?m or more and 1140 ?m or less.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 19, 2015
    Date of Patent: April 30, 2019
    Assignee: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATION
    Inventor: Akira Inagaki
  • Patent number: 10271793
    Abstract: A guidewire for a medical device is disclosed. The guidewire includes an elongate body, a proximal connector assembly, a corewire, and a sensor assembly. The body has an annular wall that defines an interior lumen. The proximal connector assembly is coupled to the body and is configured for connection to a medical positioning system. The corewire extends through the lumen. The sensor assembly located on a distal end of the corewire is electrically connected to the proximal connector assembly. The sensor assembly is configured to generate an electrical signal indicative of a position of the sensor assembly in a reference coordinate system defined by the medical positioning system. The body includes a helical cutout extending over a predetermined length of the body. The helical cutout is configured to increase the flexibility of the body over the predetermined length of the body.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 18, 2016
    Date of Patent: April 30, 2019
    Assignee: St. Jude Medical, Atrial Fibrillation Division, Inc.
    Inventors: Guy P. Vanney, Pär Gustafsson
  • Patent number: 10271794
    Abstract: Location data associated with a cardiac wall motion during a cardiac cycle can be received. The cardiac cycle can be divided into incremental phases. The location data associated with the cardiac wall motion can be assigned to the incremental phases. A fiducial pair of coordinates can be determined for each of the incremental phases. The fiducial pair of coordinates can include location data for an intermediate cardiac phase and location data for a reference cardiac phase. A fiducial loop can be determined from the fiducial pair of coordinates for each of the incremental phases. A learned cardiac mapping between the reference cardiac phase and the intermediate cardiac phase can be determined using the fiducial loop.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 29, 2015
    Date of Patent: April 30, 2019
    Assignee: St. Jude Medical, Cardiology Division, Inc.
    Inventor: Eric S. Olson
  • Patent number: 10271795
    Abstract: A catheter assembly including one or more conductive pathways is disclosed. The conductive pathways assist with initial placement of the catheter assembly into a patient's vasculature by enabling ECG signals emanating from the patient's heart to be detected. In addition, the conductive pathways are configured to be used to reconfirm via ECG signal detection proper placement of the catheter assembly at a time subsequent to initial catheter placement into the vasculature. In one embodiment, therefore, a catheter assembly is disclosed, comprising an elongate catheter tube defining at least one lumen, a first conductive pathway extending distally from a proximal point on the catheter assembly to a predetermined distal location on the catheter tube, and a second conductive pathway at least partially disposed on an outer surface of the catheter tube and extending distally from a proximal point of the catheter assembly to a predetermined distal location on the catheter tube.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 9, 2016
    Date of Patent: April 30, 2019
    Assignee: C. R. Bard, Inc.
    Inventor: Dennis L. Salzmann
  • Patent number: 10271796
    Abstract: A method is disclosed for packaging a device, e.g., for bio-medical applications. In one aspect, the method includes obtaining a component on a substrate and separating the component and a first part of the substrate from a second part of the substrate using at least one physical process inducing at least one sloped side wall on the first part of the substrate. The method also includes providing an encapsulation for the chip. The resulting packaged chip advantageously has a good step coverage resulting in a good hermeticity, less sharp edges resulting in a reduced risk of damaging or infection after implantation and has a relatively small packaged volume compared to conventional big box packaging techniques.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 24, 2015
    Date of Patent: April 30, 2019
    Assignee: IMEC
    Inventors: Maria Op De Beeck, Eric Beyne, Philippe Soussan
  • Patent number: 10271797
    Abstract: Systems and methods for detecting a target cardiac condition such as events indicative of worsening heart failure are described. A system may include sensor circuits for sensing physiological signals and a signal processor for generating a predictor trend indicative of temporal change of the physiological signal. The predictor trend may be transformed into a sequence of transformed indices using a codebook that includes a plurality of threshold pairs each including onset and reset thresholds. The codebook may be constructed and updated using physiological data. The system may detect target cardiac condition using the transformed indices.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 29, 2017
    Date of Patent: April 30, 2019
    Assignee: Cardiac Pacemakers, Inc.
    Inventors: Yi Zhang, Pramodsingh Hirasingh Thakur, Viktoria A. Averina, Julie A. Thompson, Qi An, Jonathan Walter Krueger
  • Patent number: 10271798
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and devices are provided for monitoring and displaying medical parameters for a patient. In one embodiment, a display can be configured to show a display screen that includes information related to a physiological parameter being measured from a patient. The information can include trends of values of the physiological parameter gathered from the patient over a period of time. The display screen can also show assessment information regarding one or more diagnostic parameters for the patient and notification information regarding one or more medically-related events that occurred as related to the patient. The trends information, the assessment information, and the notification information can be shown on the display screen alone or in any combination.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 11, 2017
    Date of Patent: April 30, 2019
    Assignee: Integra Lifesciences Corporation
    Inventors: Salim Kassem, Nicholas Baruch
  • Patent number: 10271799
    Abstract: A patient alarm application provides a way for allowing clinical personnel to monitor and control patient-specific alarm settings. A user interface allows clinical personnel to compare graphical representations of unit population vital signs data with patient-specific vital signs data as well timelines of alarms for the patient. Analysis of the alarm data allows the user interface to show clinical personnel the estimated effects of changes to alarm threshold settings.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 20, 2015
    Date of Patent: April 30, 2019
    Assignee: Medical Informatics Corporation
    Inventors: Craig Rusin, Emma Fauss
  • Patent number: 10271800
    Abstract: A wearable electronic device and an emergency method thereof are provided. The wearable electronic device includes a host and a strap. The host senses physiological information of a user by using a sensor. When the physiological information is determined as being abnormal, the host sends an enabling signal to the strap by a transmitting coil to enable the strap. After the strap is enabled, a warning light module displays a warning message based on the enabling signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 23, 2017
    Date of Patent: April 30, 2019
    Assignees: LITE-ON ELECTRONICS (GUANGZHOU) LIMITED, Lite-On Technology Corporation
    Inventors: Shiang-Hua Lin, Kuang-Yao Liao, Ping-Mao Lee, Wei-Chun Liao
  • Patent number: 10271801
    Abstract: Disclosed are a radiation imaging system, an image processing device, and a non-transitory computer-readable recording medium having an image processing program recorded thereon which facilitate the confirmation of a positional relationship between an object of interest and a biopsy needle. A control unit of a console reconstructs a projection image obtained by tomosynthesis imaging to generate a tomographic image parallel (an x-y-axis direction) to an imaging surface in a state where a needle is inserted into a breast, and specifies an image of an object of interest from the tomographic image. The control unit generates a sectional image which includes the specified image of the object of interest and an image of the needle and intersects the imaging surface. The control unit generates an image of the needle from the projection image, synthesizes the generated image of the needle into the sectional image while aligning, and displays the sectional image.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 25, 2015
    Date of Patent: April 30, 2019
    Assignee: FUJIFILM Corporation
    Inventors: Hiroki Nakayama, Tomoki Inoue
  • Patent number: 10271802
    Abstract: A mobile x-ray apparatus having wheels for manual transport and an x-ray tube support attached to a base. The apparatus may be rolled by pushing and/or pulling the base, the support, or the x-ray tube. A brake is associated with at least one of the wheels to prevent rolling the apparatus when manually positioning the x-ray tube. The brake may be engaged from an actuator on the tube head, on the support, or on the base.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 11, 2015
    Date of Patent: April 30, 2019
    Assignee: Carestream Health, Inc.
    Inventors: William C. Wendlandt, James H. Ogle
  • Patent number: 10271803
    Abstract: Disclosed is a measurement method performed by a Computed Tomography, CT, system. The CT system includes an x-ray source (60) and an x-ray detector (50) array of photon counting edge-on detectors (5), wherein each photon counting edge-on detector has a number of depth-segments, also referred to as detector elements, arranged at different spatial locations in the direction of incoming x-rays (45). The method includes to apply a time offset measurement scheme that provides a time offset between measurement periods for at least two different detector elements located at different depths, wherein the time offset is chosen so that at least two measurement periods at least partially overlaps in time. Disclosed is also a corresponding CT system (10), a control unit for a CT system and a measurement circuit for a CT system. A computer program (225) controlling a CT system is also disclosed. The disclosed technology provides for a higher sampling frequency in the angular direction (55).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 12, 2015
    Date of Patent: April 30, 2019
    Assignee: PRISMATIC SENSORS AB
    Inventor: Martin Sjolin
  • Patent number: 10271804
    Abstract: According to one embodiment, the X-ray image diagnosis apparatus comprises an X-ray generator, an X-ray restriction unit, a first X-ray detector, a second X-ray detector, and a drive. The X-ray generator generates X-rays to be applied to a subject. The X-ray restriction unit is disposed between the subject and the X-ray generator to restrict X-rays outside an opening region which is formed using a metal plate. The first X-ray detector has a first detection region in which X-rays that pass through the subject are detected. The second X-ray detector has a second detection region which is smaller than the first detection region and which has a high spatial resolution. The drive moves the first and second X-ray detectors so that the second detection region includes an irradiation region of the subject formed by the opening region.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 1, 2016
    Date of Patent: April 30, 2019
    Assignee: Toshiba Medical Systems Corporation
    Inventors: Nobuhiro Ohga, Jun Okada, Satoru Esashi, Toshio Muroi, Nobuo Ogura, Masanori Gunji, Yasuto Hayatsu, Ryoichi Nagae, Yoshiaki Iijima
  • Patent number: 10271805
    Abstract: An accommodation apparatus that accommodates a radiation imaging apparatus, the accommodation apparatus comprising: an accommodation unit including a bottom surface, a first wall surface adjacent to the bottom surface, and a second wall surface adjacent to the bottom surface and provided at a position facing the first wall surface, wherein the length in a horizontal direction of the first wall surface adjacent to the bottom surface and the length in the horizontal direction of the second wall surface adjacent to the bottom surface are different.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 3, 2016
    Date of Patent: April 30, 2019
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Takahiro Koyanagi, Hiroto Kondo, Masaaki Kobayashi, Youjirou Hiratsuka, Takaaki Gonda
  • Patent number: 10271806
    Abstract: An X-ray device and a supplementary system are provided for interferometric X-ray imaging of a patient on the X-ray device in order to generate projective absorption recordings. An emitter-detector system includes a focus-forming X-ray tube and a digital flat-panel detector having a multiplicity of pixel-generating detector elements. A computer system has a program memory. A mobile grating attachment includes a first interferometric X-ray grating, a second interferometric X-ray grating disposed at a distance from the first X-ray grating in the radiation direction, and a displacement device for displacing the second X-ray grating in the plane of the second X-ray grating in steps over at least one detector element.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 24, 2015
    Date of Patent: April 30, 2019
    Assignee: Siemens Healthcare GmbH
    Inventors: Thomas Mertelmeier, Marcus Radicke
  • Patent number: 10271807
    Abstract: A real-time fluoroscopic imaging system includes a collimator and a detector which are rotationally movable independent of the support assembly, e.g., c-arm, to which they are mounted. Rotational movement of the collimator and the detector are coordinated such that the orientation of the detector with respect to the collimator does not change. The collimator may include a geared flange member to facilitate rotation, and may be a single molded piece formed of a plastic such as tungsten polymer material. The system may also include a plurality of interchangeable collimators characterized by different shapes. A display is provided to present an image to an operator, and image orientation logic displays a target anatomy in a selected orientation regardless of orientation of the target anatomy relative to the detector, and regardless of rotation of the detector.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 4, 2018
    Date of Patent: April 30, 2019
    Assignee: HOLOGIC, INC.
    Inventors: John Jenkins, Mark Guetersloh, Aleksey Danilkin, Tri Pham
  • Patent number: 10271808
    Abstract: The present invention relates to automatic absorption means positioning in X-ray image acquisition. To improve image quality and to optimize the radiation exposure of an object, optimal position for X-ray absorption means is provided. A first sequence (113) of X-ray images is acquired (112). For each of the images, the optimal position (115) for X-ray absorption means is determined (114). A second sequence (117) of X-ray images is associated 10 (116) with corresponding images of the first sequence. The determined optimal position for the absorption means (14) of the associated corresponding images of the first sequence (113) is selected for an acquisition of the second sequence (117). Hence, a situation-specific database with optimized positions for the absorption means is generated on behalf of the first sequence in order to provide the generated position information for the actual acquisition of a 15 second sequence of images.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 24, 2011
    Date of Patent: April 30, 2019
    Assignee: KONINKLIJKE PHILIPS N.V.
    Inventors: Vincent Maurice Andre Auvray, Raoul Florent, Willem Frederik Den Hartog, Peter Willem Van Den Houten
  • Patent number: 10271810
    Abstract: An apparatus includes a positioning system and a patient reference sensor (PRS). The positioning system acquires a plurality of raw PRS readings over time, which can indicate the position and orientation of the PRS. A filter is configured to process the raw PRS readings and output filtered PRS readings. The filter outputs filtered PRS readings as a baseline value while the raw PRS readings stay within a predetermined range and output filtered PRS readings as unchanged raw PRS readings when the raw PRS readings reach or vary outside of the predetermined range. A motion compensation function generated based on at least the filtered PRS readings can be used to correct a subject position and orientation (P&O) to compensate for the motion of the moving region of interest over time.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 2, 2014
    Date of Patent: April 30, 2019
    Assignee: St. Jude Medical International Holding S.à r. l.
    Inventors: Alon Izmirli, Uzi Eichler
  • Patent number: 10271811
    Abstract: A method and apparatus is provided to calculate scatter using a method to determine primary X-ray flux, first-scatter flux, and multiple-scatter flux using an integral formulation of a radiative transfer equation and using spherical-harmonic expansion. The integral for the primary X-ray flux does not include a spherical-harmonic expansion. The integral for the first-scatter flux includes an angle-dependent scatter cross-section. The integral for the multiple-scatter flux is performed iteratively, includes spherical harmonics, and includes a scatter cross-section expanded using Legendre polynomials. The integrals of attenuation along propagation rays can be accelerated using material decomposition of the attenuation coefficients. An anti-scatter-grid term can be included in the integrals to account for the effects of an anti-scatter grid on the fluxes prior to detection of the X-rays.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 14, 2016
    Date of Patent: April 30, 2019
    Assignee: TOSHIBA MEDICAL SYSTEMS CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yujie Lu, Yu Zou, Xiaolan Wang, Zhou Yu, Richard Thompson
  • Patent number: 10271812
    Abstract: A dynamic CT imaging method is provided. With the method, projection measurement data for a region of an examination object to be imaged is captured, with simultaneous correlated capture of the respiratory movement of the examination object. A phase of the respiratory movement, for which image data is to be reconstructed, is selected. Phase projection measurement data assigned to the selected phase is also determined. Transition regions of partial images of the region to be imaged between successive respiratory cycles are then reconstructed on a trial basis based on a part of the phase projection measurement data, and a standard reconstruction is performed using parts of the phase projection measurement data for each of the successive respiratory cycles assigned to an optimum reconstruction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 26, 2017
    Date of Patent: April 30, 2019
    Assignee: Siemens Healthcare GmbH
    Inventor: Christian Hofmann
  • Patent number: 10271813
    Abstract: A radiography system for executing long-length imaging by using a plurality of radiation imaging apparatuses includes an acquisition unit configured to acquire respective states of the plurality of radiation imaging apparatuses, and a state control unit configured to shift power consumption of one radiation imaging apparatus to a same state as that of another radiation imaging apparatus based on the respective states acquired by the acquisition unit in a case where at least the one radiation imaging apparatus from among the plurality of radiation imaging apparatuses is in a state where the power consumption is higher than that of the another radiation imaging apparatus.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 21, 2016
    Date of Patent: April 30, 2019
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Tadahiko Iijima