Patents Issued in September 10, 2019
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Patent number: 10405761Abstract: One or more sensors and/or sensing techniques are used individually or in combination to detect and/or measure heart rate and/or heart rate variability. The sensors may be wearable and/or portable and may operate on different principles and may include different power profiles. The sensors and/or sensing techniques may be used at the same time or at different times that may overlap partially or completely, or may be mutually exclusive. A controller may select one or more sensors and/or sensing techniques based on operating conditions and/or based on conservation of power.Type: GrantFiled: February 16, 2016Date of Patent: September 10, 2019Assignee: KONINKLIJKE PHILIPS N.V.Inventors: Martin Ouwerkerk, Stefan Van De Pas
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Patent number: 10405762Abstract: A system for non-invasively measuring cardiac output, stroke volume, or both comprises a pulse oximeter, a data processor, and means for generating an output reporting measured one or more CO or SV values to a user. A method for non-invasively measuring cardiac output, stroke volume, or both comprises collecting plethysmographic waveform data of a patient, providing the plethysmographic waveform to a data processor, and calculating measured values for CO or SV. The data processor comprises a mathematical model of the cardiovascular system integrated in a dynamic state space model (DSSM).Type: GrantFiled: August 1, 2016Date of Patent: September 10, 2019Assignee: Vital Metrix, Inc.Inventor: Rodrigo E. Teixeira
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Patent number: 10405763Abstract: Provided are systems and methods for noninvasively assessing intracranial pressure by controllably osculating at least a portion of a subject's ocular globe while applying a force sufficient to collapse an intraocular blood vessel and correlating the collapse pressure to intracranial pressure. Also provided are ophthalmic components useful in ophthalmic imaging applications, such as retinal, corneal, and pupil imaging. The components may include an optical contact surface that has a radius of curvature that is greater than the radius of curvature of a subject's cornea.Type: GrantFiled: January 17, 2017Date of Patent: September 10, 2019Assignee: Third Eye Diagnostics, Inc.Inventors: Terry A. Fuller, William Lai, Anthony Bellezza
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Patent number: 10405764Abstract: Methods, devices, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for brain-controlled body movement assistance devices. In one aspect, a device includes a brain-controlled body movement assistance device with a brain-computer interface (BCI) component adapted to be mounted to a user, a body movement assistance component operably connected to the BCI component and adapted to be worn by the user, and a feedback mechanism provided in connection with at least one of the BCI component and the body movement assistance component, the feedback mechanism being configured to output information relating to a usage session of the brain-controlled body movement assistance device.Type: GrantFiled: January 9, 2017Date of Patent: September 10, 2019Assignee: Neurolutions, Inc.Inventors: Eric C. Leuthardt, Lonnie J. Love, Rob Coker, Daniel W. Moran
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Patent number: 10405765Abstract: A data acquisition system for use with expandable ECG electrode systems. The data acquisition system includes a main unit and one or more expansion units for increasing the number of ECG leads applied to a patient for enhanced monitoring capabilities. Multiple embodiments are illustrated for providing a common mode signal between the main electrode unit and expansion units without requiring the physical transmission of voltage potential between the main unit and the expansion unit. In one embodiment, the main unit and the expansion unit share a common ground reference potential. In a second embodiment, an optical signal is transmitted between the main unit and the extension unit to relay the common mode information while in a third embodiment, common electrode potentials are provided to both the main unit and the extension unit for constructing their own common reference signal.Type: GrantFiled: March 3, 2016Date of Patent: September 10, 2019Assignee: General Electric CompanyInventors: Robert Filip Arnold Santala, Ville Petteri Vartiovaara, Juha Petri Virtanen
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Patent number: 10405766Abstract: Methods and systems for mapping and displaying cardiac structures are disclosed. The method includes sensing cardiac electrical signals at a plurality of points and generating a cardiac map of at least a portion of one or more cardiac structures based on at least a portion of the sensed cardiac electrical signals. A surface map having a corresponding first position relative to the cardiac map is generated. The surface map includes a first surface point, where a first cardiac electrical signal feature is represented on the surface map at the first surface point if a corresponding first cardiac electrical signal is sensed at a point that is located within a threshold distance of the first surface point. The cardiac map and the surface map, at the first position, are displayed. The surface map may be repositioned to a second position.Type: GrantFiled: September 25, 2016Date of Patent: September 10, 2019Assignee: Boston Scientific Scimed, Inc.Inventors: Brian Stewart, Doron Harlev, Mordechai Perlman, Paul Hultz
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Patent number: 10405767Abstract: A portable medical device having an intravenous line flow sensor integrated into a cable. The portable medical device may be a defibrillator having an ECG or electrode cable couple to ECG or electrode leads. The flow sensor may be integrated into the ECG or electrode cable. The portable medical device uses the flow sensor to capture and store information about fluids delivered to a patient being treated with the portable medical device. The information may include total volume provided, flow rate, and the like. The information may then be used to evaluate the treatment provided to the patient.Type: GrantFiled: July 31, 2017Date of Patent: September 10, 2019Assignee: PHYSIO-CONTROL, INC.Inventors: Robert G. Walker, Barry D. Curtin
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Patent number: 10405768Abstract: An ambulatory medical device including a plurality of electrodes configured to be disposed at spaced apart positions about a patient's body, an electrode signal acquisition circuit, and a monitoring circuit. The acquisition circuit has a plurality of inputs each electrically coupled to a respective electrode of the plurality of electrodes and is configured to sense a respective signal provided by a plurality of different pairings of the plurality of electrodes. The monitoring circuit is electrically coupled to an output of the acquisition circuit and is configured to analyze the respective signal provided by each of the plurality of different pairings and to instruct the acquisition circuit to select at least one of the plurality of different pairings to monitor based on at least one of the quality of the respective signal, a phase difference between the respective signal and that of other pairings, a position of electrodes relative to the patient's body, and other criteria.Type: GrantFiled: February 20, 2018Date of Patent: September 10, 2019Assignee: ZOLL Medical CorporationInventors: Thomas E. Kaib, Shane S. Volpe, John D. Macho
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Patent number: 10405769Abstract: An electrical stimulation and bio-potential measurement device is provided. The electrical stimulation and bio-potential measurement device comprises at least one electrode module which comes into contact with the scalp of a user, a current supply unit, connected to the at least one electrode module, for supplying a current to the at least one electrode module so that the at least one electrode module can apply electrical stimulation to the user, and a signal processing unit, connected to the at least one electrode module, for processing bio-potential signals detected by the at least one electrode module, wherein the current supply unit comprises at least one switch which is arranged between the at least one electrode module and a voltage source for supplying the current.Type: GrantFiled: December 5, 2017Date of Patent: September 10, 2019Assignee: Y-BRAIN INC.Inventors: Ki Won Lee, Cheon Ju Ko, Jong Min Jang, Byung Gik Kim
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Patent number: 10405771Abstract: Methods and systems for the determination and representation of anatomy anatomical information are disclosed herein.Type: GrantFiled: December 4, 2016Date of Patent: September 10, 2019Assignee: Rhythmia Medical Inc.Inventors: Doron Harlev, Alpar Csendes, Zsolt Badics
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Patent number: 10405772Abstract: Techniques and systems for non-contrast enhanced magnetic resonance angiography and venography (MRAV) are described. For example, within one cardiac cycle of a subject, a single shot acquisition of non-suppressed arterial MR signals and a single shot acquisition of non-suppressed venous MR signals are employed. Radio frequency (RF) saturation pulses may be applied to one or more slabs such that MR signals indicative of venous blood that flows into the arterial imaging slice are substantially suppressed and MR signals indicative of arterial blood that flows in the venous imaging slice are substantially suppressed. The RF saturation pulses and the single shot acquisitions may be timed such that one or more of the single shot acquisitions occur during substantially steady state inflow of blood into the respective imaging slice. In this manner, k-space data may be acquired from arterial specific and venous specific imaging slices occurring within a single cardiac cycle.Type: GrantFiled: September 18, 2012Date of Patent: September 10, 2019Assignees: WISCONSIN ALUMNI RESEARCH FOUNDATION, INC., GENERAL ELECTRIC COMPANYInventors: Frank R. Korosec, James H. Holmes, Daniel V. Litwiller, Mahdi Salmani Rahimi
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Patent number: 10405773Abstract: The present disclosure describes non-invasive approaches for delineating and characterizing tissue using MR imaging over a range of treatment levels. By way of example, tumor tissue may be distinguished and delineated from other tissue, such as muscle tissue. Further, tumor tissue may be characterized as malignant or benign using such approaches.Type: GrantFiled: December 19, 2014Date of Patent: September 10, 2019Assignee: General Electric CompanyInventors: Matthew Richard Tarasek, Thomas Kwok-Fah Foo, Desmond Teck Beng Yeo, Oguz Akin
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Patent number: 10405774Abstract: A catheter has single axis sensors mounted directly along a portion of the catheter whose position/location is of interest. The magnetic based, single axis sensors are on a linear or nonlinear single axis sensor (SAS) assembly. The catheter includes a catheter body and a distal 2D or 3D configuration provided by a support member on which at least one, if not at least three single axis sensors, are mounted serially along a length of the support member. The magnetic-based sensor assembly may include at least one coil member wrapped on the support member, wherein the coil member is connected via a joint region to a respective cable member adapted to transmit a signal providing location information from the coil member to a mapping and localization system. The joint region provides strain relief adaptations to the at least one coil member and the respective cable member from detaching.Type: GrantFiled: July 28, 2014Date of Patent: September 10, 2019Assignee: Biosense Webster, Inc.Inventors: Maribeth Esguerra Wilczynski, Jennifer Maffre, Thanh Nguyen
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Patent number: 10405775Abstract: The present invention relates to an apparatus for tracking a device comprising a magnet as the device is inserted through a subject. The apparatus is wearable by the subject and comprises a unit configured to conform to the subject. The apparatus further comprises magnetic sensors arranged with the unit. In use, the magnetic sensors detect magnetic fields of the magnet and the detected magnetic fields are processed to determine a position of the magnet. This allows tracking of the device as the device is inserted through the subject.Type: GrantFiled: November 21, 2014Date of Patent: September 10, 2019Assignee: Singapore University of Technology and Design & National University of SingaporeInventors: Shaohui Foong, Zhenglong Sun, U-Xuan Tan, Tee Hui Teo, Asim Shabbir
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Patent number: 10405776Abstract: An apparatus for positioning an orthopedic implant, the apparatus includes a flexible substrate, at least first and second field-generating coils, and circuitry. The flexible substrate is formed into a three-dimensional (3D) shape and is coupled to a predefined location on the orthopedic implant. The at least first and second field-generating coils are formed in the flexible substrate, such that in the 3D shape the first and second field-generating coils have first and second respective axes that are not parallel to one another. The circuitry is mounted on the flexible substrate and electrically connected to the at least first and second field-generating coils, and is configured to drive the at least first and second field-generating coils with respective signals.Type: GrantFiled: June 13, 2017Date of Patent: September 10, 2019Assignee: BIOSENSE WEBSTER (ISRAEL) LTD.Inventors: Assaf Govari, Andres Claudio Altmann, Vadim Gliner, Yehuda Algawi
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Patent number: 10405777Abstract: Representative apparatus, method, and system embodiments are disclosed for non-invasive detection an ingested battery or magnet in a human or other animal subject. The various apparatus embodiments include one or more Hall effect sensors, arranged in a hand-held embodiment or arranged along a flexible strip having an adhesive. A calibration may be determined or reference or calibration field measurements may be generated. A flexible strip is arranged, or the hand-held embodiment is moved, over the esophagus of the subject to generate target magnetic field measurements. The presence of an ingested battery or magnet is detected when one or more target magnetic field measurements (or gradient) is or are greater than or equal to a first predetermined threshold, or when a sign reversal occurs for a difference between target and reference measurements. The various apparatus and system embodiments may also include a monitor for signal processing and display of results.Type: GrantFiled: December 4, 2017Date of Patent: September 10, 2019Assignees: Northwestern University, Ann and Robert H. Lurie Children's Hospital of ChicagoInventors: Bharat Bhushan, Claus-Peter Richter, Jonathan Ida
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Patent number: 10405778Abstract: A device for combined respiratory gas analysis and lung function test includes a gas quantity measuring device, a gas analysis device, and a multi-way valve configured for placement at least between a first valve path combination and a second valve path combination. A first gas path between the gas quantity measuring device and a second combined inlet/outlet opening is established while by-passing the gas analysis device with the first valve path combination of the multi-way valve, and a second gas path is established between a first combined inlet/outlet opening, the gas analysis device, the gas quantity measuring device, and the second combined inlet/outlet opening with the second valve path combination of the multi-way valve.Type: GrantFiled: March 14, 2014Date of Patent: September 10, 2019Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbHInventors: Ronny Leonhardt, Robert Giezendanner-Thoben, Cristian-Aurelian Coclici
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Patent number: 10405779Abstract: In one example, an apparatus includes a shoe having a sole with at least a portion of foam replaced with a composite polymeric foam, at least one probe disposed in the composite polymeric foam, a voltage detector coupled to the probe that detects voltage data generated by the composite polymeric foam, and a transformation module that converts voltage data generated by the composite polymeric foam in response to deformation events into GRF, acceleration, or pressure data. In another example, a method includes receiving voltage data produced by composite polymeric foam, the composite polymeric foam providing support and padding in the sole of a shoe, converting the voltage data to force data, comparing the force data to a profile, and transmitting, when the force data fails to fall within a threshold of the profile, a feedback signal to a physical feedback device, the feedback signal indicating a difference with the profile.Type: GrantFiled: January 7, 2016Date of Patent: September 10, 2019Assignee: Nano Composite Products, Inc.Inventors: Aaron Jake Merrell, Anton E. Bowden, David T. Fullwood, Matthew Kirk Seeley, Gavin Quinn Collins, Parker Gary Rosquist, William Fredrick Christensen
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Patent number: 10405780Abstract: A lower loading assessment system having at least one motion sensor mounted to a subject's lower limb that is configured to sense the tibial shockwaves experienced by the lower limb as the subject performs a repetitive physical activity involving repetitive footstrikes of the lower limb with a surface. The motion sensor comprises an accelerometer that is configured to sense acceleration data in at least three axes and generate representative acceleration data over a time period associated with the physical activity. The acceleration data represents a series of discrete tibial shockwaves from the discrete footstrikes. A data processor receives the tibial shockwave data and processes that to generate output feedback data comprising data to assist the subject to minimize future loading in their lower limbs.Type: GrantFiled: February 18, 2015Date of Patent: September 10, 2019Assignee: IMEASUREU LimitedInventors: Mark Finch, Thor Franciscus Besier
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Patent number: 10405781Abstract: A mobile device comprises an air pressure sensor configured to measure a value of air pressure, a walk detector configured to detect whether a user is walking, and a controller configured to estimate a movement method of the user using an own device based on results of the air pressure sensor and the walk detector, wherein in a case where a change amount of the value of the air pressure detected by the air pressure sensor is equal to or larger than a reference value and the walk detector detects that the user is walking, the controller estimates that the user is moving on stairs.Type: GrantFiled: July 27, 2016Date of Patent: September 10, 2019Assignee: KYOCERA CORPORATIONInventors: Shigeki Tanabe, Hideki Morita, Isao Masuike, Shinya Saito
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Patent number: 10405782Abstract: A photoplethysmographic device including at least one laser light source and further including a protective sensor connector that has a protective flap (350), a mechanism (340) for controlling movement of the protective flap, and a plurality of interconnections, at least one of which is an optical connection (240). The movement of the protective flap designed to provide at least a substantially open position and a substantially closed position.Type: GrantFiled: October 18, 2016Date of Patent: September 10, 2019Assignee: Kestrel Labs, Inc.Inventors: Jonas Alexander Pologe, Theodore Philip Delianides
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Patent number: 10405783Abstract: A concentration measurement apparatus includes a probe, having a light incidence section making measurement light incident on the head and a light detection section detecting the measurement light that has propagated through the interior of the head, and a CPU determining temporal relative change amounts of oxygenated hemoglobin concentration and deoxygenated hemoglobin concentration and determining a correlation coefficient of the relative change amounts and a polarity of a slope of a regression line.Type: GrantFiled: June 1, 2017Date of Patent: September 10, 2019Assignee: HAMAMATSU PHOTONICS K.K.Inventors: Takeo Ozaki, Susumu Suzuki
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Patent number: 10405784Abstract: A tissue monitoring device includes a light emitter, a light detector, a probe, and a controller. The light emitter emits light through tissue in the subject, such as tissues in the subject's head. The light detector detects light emitted from the light emitter and scattered by the subject's tissue. The probe is inserted into an orifice of the subject and includes one of the light emitter and light detector. The controller communicates with the light detector and the light emitter and detects an oxygenation level of the blood in the subject's tissue based upon measurements of the scattered light. The probe may include one or more bladders for blocking ambient light and/or for ensuring contact exists between the light detector (or emitter) and an interior surface of the subject's orifice.Type: GrantFiled: June 17, 2016Date of Patent: September 10, 2019Assignee: Stryker CorporationInventor: Marko N. Kostic
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Patent number: 10405785Abstract: A method for determining a concentration of an analyte in a subject includes irradiating a part of the subject with electromagnetic radiation, wherein a part of the subject comprises biological molecules arranged to absorb the electromagnetic radiation and to emit fluorescence in response. The method also includes measuring fluorescence emitted to obtain data representative of a fluorescence decay. The method further includes processing the data to determine one or more feature points associated with the fluorescence decay and to generate one or more feature vectors based on the one or more feature points, and applying the one or more feature vectors to a regression model for the analyte to determine the concentration of the analyte. Also provided is a system for determining a concentration of an analyte in a subject, as well as a measurement device for facilitating determination of a concentration of an analyte in a subject.Type: GrantFiled: August 4, 2016Date of Patent: September 10, 2019Assignee: CITY UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONGInventors: Derek Ho, Wenrong Yan, Liping Wei, Yi Tian
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Patent number: 10405786Abstract: The systems, environment, and methods, described herein support evaluation of an individual for ASD while in the home environment. Through data collected by a wearable data collection device donned by the individual, eye contact with the caregiver, verbal interaction, and repetitive verbalizations and motions of the head and body may be tracked and objectively quantified during evaluation. Further, the wearable data collection device may support monitoring of brain activity and other physiology which, in turn, may be analyzed by the systems and environment described herein during evaluation to recognize patterns that predict evaluation outcome and other clinical features. Various software modules and tools supported by the wearable data collection device provide training, ongoing progress tracking, and management solutions for individuals living with ASD.Type: GrantFiled: October 9, 2014Date of Patent: September 10, 2019Inventor: Nedim T. Sahin
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Patent number: 10405787Abstract: A method, data processing unit, and system for monitoring excrement data for seeking a pattern for a monitoring period, wherein said excrement data is associated with at least one absorbent article and a person wearing said at least one absorbent article is disclosed. The method includes acquiring excrement data including excrement data for at least two different time periods, each substantially corresponding to the monitoring period for which a pattern of events is sought, wherein said excrement data includes information of excrement into an absorbent article in form of excrement events, and wherein each excrement event has an associated time mark or associated information from which an associated time mark may be derived; and smoothing the time mark of each excrement event.Type: GrantFiled: December 20, 2013Date of Patent: September 10, 2019Assignee: ESSITY HYGIENE AND HEALTH AKTIEBOLAGInventors: Carolyn Berland, Mattias Bosaeus, Pär Johannesson
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Patent number: 10405788Abstract: Disclosed herein is a sensor attached to viscera to measure a change in length, in which the sensor includes a first layer having a first surface attached to the viscera and a second surface opposite to the first surface, a second layer having a third surface attached to the second surface and a fourth surface opposite to the third surface and expanded or contracted as the viscera is expanded or contracted, and a third layer having a fifth surface attached to the fourth surface and a sixth surface opposite to the fifth surface and attached to a catheter, and the first layer to the third layer are a film including silk fibroin and a calcium compound.Type: GrantFiled: March 27, 2018Date of Patent: September 10, 2019Assignee: KOREA ADVANCED INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGYInventors: Hyunjoo Jenny Lee, Hyojung Kim, Sangchul Lee
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Patent number: 10405789Abstract: An apparatus for determining the volume of urine in a human bladder is described. The apparatus uses light to determine the length of a flexible tube attached vertically to the outside of the bladder, and converts the length into a fullness value that is transmitted to an external device that notifies a user about the state of the bladder.Type: GrantFiled: July 7, 2017Date of Patent: September 10, 2019Inventors: Avner Ramu, Nehemia Hampel
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Patent number: 10405790Abstract: Embodiments of the present invention provide systems and methods for performing analysis validity ranking of information. The method utilizes technology such as MRI, CT, PET, SPECT, EEG, and MEG to collect a user's cognitive event, to analyze the user's cognitive event via analytics, and to correlate the user's cognitive event with a ranking. This correlated data is sent to a database amenable to future inquiries on cognitive events of the user. The search results are based on the level of validity for retrieving accurate search results from the database at a future point in time. A validity and the rank of the data deriving from the user's cognitive event are evaluated based on the brainwaves and the location of the data deriving from the user's cognitive event. The data with a higher validity is ranked higher and tagged accordingly.Type: GrantFiled: November 19, 2015Date of Patent: September 10, 2019Assignee: International Business Machines CorporationInventors: Jae-Lyn Hecht, Fang Lu, Azadeh Salehi, Olga M. Sanchez Sanchez, Zi C. Sardone
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Patent number: 10405791Abstract: Method and continuously wearable noninvasive apparatus for automatically detecting a stroke's onset are invented. The method comprises measuring pulse transit time or a related hemodynamic parameter and using adaptive pattern learning and stroke identification algorithms to identify the start of a stroke attack. The algorithms are run on an embedded processor and electronics in the apparatus. The result of the identification and detection is used to generate an alarm to alert the patient, caregiver or medical professional to immediately seek further medical treatment. The method can also be applied to identify and detect other abnormal health conditions.Type: GrantFiled: March 15, 2013Date of Patent: September 10, 2019Inventor: Yingchang Yang
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Patent number: 10405792Abstract: A method, comprising receiving at least one of a signal relating to a first cardiac activity and a signal relating to a first body movement from a patient; triggering at least one of a test of the patient's responsiveness, awareness, a second cardiac activity, a second body movement, a spectral analysis test of the second cardiac activity, and a spectral analysis test of the second body movement, based on at least one of the signal relating to the first cardiac activity and the signal relating to the first body movement; determining an occurrence of an epileptic event based at least in part on said one or more triggered tests; and performing a further action in response to said determination of said occurrence of said epileptic event. Further methods allow classification of epileptic events. Apparatus and systems capable of implementing the method.Type: GrantFiled: December 21, 2016Date of Patent: September 10, 2019Assignee: FLINT HILLS SCIENTIFIC, LLCInventor: Ivan Osorio
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Systems and methods for in vivo visualization of lymphatic vessels with optical coherence tomography
Patent number: 10405793Abstract: The present technology relates generally to systems and methods for in vivo visualization of lymphatic vessels. A system includes an optical coherence tomography (OCT) device and a computing device coupled to the OCT device configured to cause the OCT device to perform an OCT scan, generate image data in response to the OCT scan, and apply an eigendecomposition filter to the image data to produce processed image data. Alternatively or in addition, the computing device can compensate for scattering attenuation along an optical axis of the OCT scan in the image data set to generate compensated image data, enhance contrast of the compensated image data along a cross-section substantially orthogonal to the optical axis to generate contrast-enhanced image data, and identify at least one lymphatic vessel in the image data.Type: GrantFiled: July 1, 2015Date of Patent: September 10, 2019Assignee: University of WashingtonInventors: Ruikang K. Wang, Siavash Yousefi, Utku Baran -
Patent number: 10405794Abstract: The disclosed invention includes sweat sensing devices configured to periodically measure sweat conductivity and galvanic skin response, devices to measure volumetric sweat flow rate, and devices that combine the three functions. The disclosure further includes methods for using a device configured to perform periodic sweat conductivity measurements, galvanic skin response measurements, and volumetric sweat rate measurements so that each sensor modality informs composite estimates of sweat onset, sweat cessation, sweat ion concentration, and sweat rate. The method uses those measurements to inform other sweat sensing device functions, such as determining the existence of a physiological condition, or performing measurements of concentrations, ratios, and trends of sweat analytes.Type: GrantFiled: July 18, 2017Date of Patent: September 10, 2019Assignee: Eccrine Systems, Inc.Inventors: Gavi Begtrup, Jacob A. Bertrand, Jason Heikenfeld, Austin Morgan, Nathan Weinle
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Patent number: 10405795Abstract: A method and system for classifying different types of periorbital dyschromia is disclosed. The method includes providing at least one of a predetermined imaging characteristic and a biological characteristic for each of three different types of periorbital dyschromia, and then measuring the appropriate characteristic on a person exhibiting periorbital dyschromia. The type of periorbital dyschromia exhibited by a person can then be determined by comparing the measured value to the predetermined value and selecting the corresponding type of periorbital dyschromia.Type: GrantFiled: March 17, 2014Date of Patent: September 10, 2019Assignee: The Procter & Gamble CompanyInventors: Karen Marie Osorio, Karen Kay Kalla, Wenzhu Zhao, Bradley Bryan Jarrold
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Patent number: 10405796Abstract: Methods for estimating and predicting tooth wear based upon a single 3D digital model of teeth. The 3D digital model is segmented to identify individual teeth within the model. A digital model of a tooth is selected from the segmented model, and its original shape is predicted. The digital model is compared with the predicted original shape to estimate wear areas. A mapping function based upon values relating to tooth wear can also be applied to the selected digital model to predict wear of the tooth.Type: GrantFiled: July 20, 2017Date of Patent: September 10, 2019Assignee: 3M INNOVATIVE PROPERTIES COMPANYInventors: Evan J. Ribnick, Guruprasad Somasundaram, Brian J. Stankiewicz, Aya Eid, Ravishankar Sivalingam, Shannon D. Scott, Anthony J. Sabelli, Robert D. Lorentz
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Patent number: 10405797Abstract: The system includes a movement sensor and a core contraction sensor in communication with a processor. The core contraction sensor is placed on the core muscles of a user and transmits core contraction signals to the processor. The processor receives movement signals from the movement sensor and identifies user movements that are qualifying movements that benefit from core contractions. The processor also monitors the timing between the qualifying movements and the core contractions to identify protected and unprotected qualifying movements. The system can also include a memory for storing core scores that are calculated from the protected and unprotected qualifying movements, exercise information and core sensor calibration information. The core contraction information can be used to calibrate the core contraction sensor. The core contraction and movement information can be transmitted to a therapist who can monitor the user's activities and provide instructional feedback.Type: GrantFiled: August 4, 2015Date of Patent: September 10, 2019Assignee: Alert Core, Inc.Inventor: Gregory Takeo Uehara
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Patent number: 10405798Abstract: A bio-information detecting apparatus includes: a band member curved in a C-shape, and attached around a neck part of an examinee from a back side of the neck part; and a pair of electrodes for cardiac potential measurement disposed at positions on the band member that come into contact with right and left skin surfaces of the neck part, and in the pair of electrodes, a position of the electrode on the right is located relatively more frontward than a position of the electrode on the left. The bio-information detecting apparatus further includes a substrate to optically measure a blood oxygen saturation for pulse measurement at a position on the band member that comes into contact with the neck part of the examinee, and a pressing force of the substrate against the skin surface of the neck part is 0.96 to 1.21 [N/cm2].Type: GrantFiled: September 1, 2016Date of Patent: September 10, 2019Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Hisashi Iizuka, Hirokazu Kikuchi
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Patent number: 10405799Abstract: An electronic device for long-term adhesion to a mammal includes a housing with an electronic component. The electronic device may include a first wing and a second wing, each being integrally formed with the housing. An electrode is positioned on a bottom surface of each of the wings, the electrodes electrically connected to the electronic component. An adhesive layer is provided for adhesion to a surface of the mammal. The adhesive layer may cover a portion of the bottom surfaces of the wings but generally does not cover the electrode or a bottom surface of the housing. A method of applying an electronic device to a mammal includes removing first and second adhesive covers from first and second wings of the electronic device to expose an electrode and an adhesive coated on a bottom surface of each wing.Type: GrantFiled: January 25, 2016Date of Patent: September 10, 2019Assignee: iRhythm Technologies, Inc.Inventors: Uday N. Kumar, Peter H. Livingston, Mark J. Day, Shena Hae Park, William F. Willis, William H. Righter
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Patent number: 10405800Abstract: Disclosed are devices and methods for detecting activation of an electronic device, including a biomedical and biometric device. The electronic device can operate in a low-power mode until it is determined that the electronic device is in close proximity to or in contact with a body, and activated. The electronic device can include a first sensor including a first capacitance sensor, a second sensor, and a controller coupled to the first sensor and the second sensor. The controller can receive a first signal from the first sensor and determine that the electronic device is in close proximity to or in contact with a body based on the first signal, and receive a second signal from the second sensor and determine that the electronic device is activated based on one or both of the first signal and the second signal. The electronic device can transition from the low-power mode to an active mode in response to determining that the electronic device is activated.Type: GrantFiled: December 14, 2016Date of Patent: September 10, 2019Assignee: CAPSULE TECHNOLOGIES, INC.Inventors: Robert Ganton, Robert Ballam, Eugene Dantsker
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Patent number: 10405801Abstract: A display panel having health monitoring function, including a first substrate; a second substrate; and a monitoring unit. The monitoring unit is configured to monitor a change in human physiological information and is disposed on the first substrate or the second substrate through a patterning process. Such display panel having health monitoring function solves the technical problem that existing display panels having health monitoring function are poor in level of integration with incompact structures.Type: GrantFiled: September 29, 2015Date of Patent: September 10, 2019Assignees: BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP CO., LTD., ORDOS YUANSHENG OPTOELECTRONICS CO., LTD.Inventors: Yun Qiu, Jiuxia Yang
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Patent number: 10405802Abstract: A method for detecting a heart rate is disclosed and includes: providing a photodetector module, a motion detector and a Fast Fourier Transform (FFT) module; acquiring a first heart rate using the photodetector module and the FFT module; sampling at different time intervals and generating a frame using the motion detector and the FFT module, wherein the frame has a first plurality of peaks and a first plurality of indexes corresponding to the first plurality of peaks, and a plurality of sport intervals are defined by the first plurality of indexes; and acquiring a present heart rate by applying an interval tracking algorithm to the first heart rate and the plurality of sport intervals generated from the sampling at different time intervals.Type: GrantFiled: October 20, 2015Date of Patent: September 10, 2019Assignee: WELTREND SEMICONDUCTOR, INC.Inventors: Ke-Ning Pan, Shih-Tsung Kuo, Chi-Chung Ho
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Patent number: 10405803Abstract: A computer-implemented method for estimating a cardiovascular feature, such as heart interbeat intervals, using time-delay embedding includes receiving a quasiperiodic observational data stream from a biophysiological sensor, selecting a first delay value, and generating a first vector with a first dimensionality in a multidimensional coordinate space from the observational data stream through time-delay embedding. The method also includes selecting a first plane with a second dimensionality equal to one less than the first dimensionality and which passes through an origin of the coordinate space, identifying a plurality of crossings of the first vector through the first plane in one direction, and correlating a time value corresponding to each of the crossings. The method further includes calculating a plurality of periods between the time values corresponding to consecutive crossings, where the periods represent a stream of interbeat intervals.Type: GrantFiled: October 30, 2015Date of Patent: September 10, 2019Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.Inventors: Yelei Li, Asif Khalak
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Patent number: 10405804Abstract: A patient monitor including a physiological measurement logic engine receives physiological data from a physiological sensor. The logic engine abstracts one or more features of the physiological data and determines a category for the abstracted feature. The logic engine further encodes the category of each of the one or more features and determines an action to perform based on the encoded categories.Type: GrantFiled: June 27, 2017Date of Patent: September 10, 2019Assignee: Masimo CorporationInventor: Ammar Al-Ali
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Patent number: 10405805Abstract: A method of blood flow monitoring for a patient, the method comprising the steps of: a) receiving a first signal indicative of the real time cardiac output for the patient; b) processing the continuous wave Doppler signal to provide an estimate of blood flow velocity as a function of time; c) receiving a pressure measurement indicative of the blood flow resistance through the patient; and d) calculating an Inotropy measure indicative of the potential and kinetic energy of the cardiac output of the patient.Type: GrantFiled: January 14, 2014Date of Patent: September 10, 2019Assignee: USCOM LIMITEDInventors: Robert Allan Phillips, Brendan Smith
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Patent number: 10405806Abstract: An apparatus for and a method of measuring blood pressure are provided. The apparatus includes a sensor configured to radiate light to a body part, and detect a light signal that is changed due to the body part. The apparatus further includes a signal processor configured to determine a bio signal based on the light signal; and a central processing unit configured to determine a blood pressure based on the bio signal and a blood pressure estimation algorithm.Type: GrantFiled: December 7, 2015Date of Patent: September 10, 2019Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.Inventors: Chanwook Baik, Jisoo Kyoung, Maxim Vladimirovich Riabko, Youngzoon Yoon, Alexey Dmitrievich Lantsov, Younggeun Roh, Jaesoong Lee
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Patent number: 10405807Abstract: Contactless blood pressure monitoring, includes: illuminating a blood vessel of a patient with infrared (‘IR’) light; receiving, by an IR camera through a polarizing filter, IR light reflected by the patient; capturing at a time based on a heartrate of the patient, a first IR image of the blood vessel of the patient when the blood vessel is distended; determining, from the first image, a maximum diameter of the blood vessel; capturing at a time based on the heartrate of the patient, a second IR image of the blood vessel of the patient when the blood vessel is contracted; determining, from the second IR image, a minimum diameter of the blood vessel; and calculating blood pressure of the patient in dependence upon the maximum and minimum diameters of the blood vessel.Type: GrantFiled: November 11, 2016Date of Patent: September 10, 2019Assignee: International Business Machines CorporationInventors: David R. Draeger, Eric H. Jenney, John D. Vasquez
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Patent number: 10405808Abstract: Contactless blood pressure monitoring, includes: illuminating a blood vessel of a patient with infrared (‘IR’) light; receiving, by an IR camera through a polarizing filter, IR light reflected by the patient; capturing at a time based on a heartrate of the patient, a first IR image of the blood vessel of the patient when the blood vessel is distended; determining, from the first image, a maximum diameter of the blood vessel; capturing at a time based on the heartrate of the patient, a second IR image of the blood vessel of the patient when the blood vessel is contracted; determining, from the second IR image, a minimum diameter of the blood vessel; and calculating blood pressure of the patient in dependence upon the maximum and minimum diameters of the blood vessel.Type: GrantFiled: April 21, 2017Date of Patent: September 10, 2019Assignee: International Business Machines CorporationInventors: David R. Draeger, Eric H. Jenney, John D. Vasquez
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Patent number: 10405809Abstract: An injectable detecting device is provided for use in physiological monitoring. The device includes a plurality of sensors axially spaced along a body that provide an indication of at least one physiological event of a patient, a monitoring unit within the body coupled to the plurality of sensors configured to receive data from the plurality of sensors and create processed patient data, a power source within the body coupled to the monitoring unit, and a communication antenna external to the body coupled to the monitoring unit configured to transfer data to/from other devices.Type: GrantFiled: March 18, 2014Date of Patent: September 10, 2019Assignee: MEDTRONIC MONITORING, INCInventors: Yatheendhar D. Manicka, Badri Amurthur, Mark Bly, Kristofer James, Imad Libbus, Scott T. Mazar, Jerry S. Wang
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Patent number: 10405810Abstract: A tool for predicting that a person is likely to be abnormally hydrated over a future time interval, and in some cases to alert the person or a medical professional to intervene. From a series of physiological measurements, a tissue electrical impedance spectrum curve, which comprises a phase spectrum curve in an embodiment, is determined and changes in the shape of the curve are ascertained. The measurements may be received using one or more sensors worn by the person. In some embodiments, current and historic spectrum curvature are applied to an evolutionary algorithm, such as particle-swarm optimization (PSO) or differential evolution (DE), to determine an inference regarding the persons future hydration status. In one embodiment, a statistical forecast for the next epoch immediately beyond the present one, is determined.Type: GrantFiled: May 23, 2016Date of Patent: September 10, 2019Assignee: Cerner Innovation, Inc.Inventor: Douglas S. McNair
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Patent number: 10405811Abstract: Method and apparatus are used to display a slice of tomographic image in a three-dimensional (3D) medical image, for the purpose of achieving better recognition of a vascular structure contained in the slice without degrading spatial resolution of the slice. An example method includes identifying a slice of interest in a 3D medical image representing an anatomical part including a blood vessel; and projecting along a slice axis direction orthogonal to the slice of interest for a region in the 3D medical image including the slice and wider than the slice.Type: GrantFiled: August 28, 2015Date of Patent: September 10, 2019Assignee: General Electric CompanyInventor: Hasnine Haque