Patents Issued in October 15, 2019
  • Patent number: 10441215
    Abstract: One embodiment includes an image acquisition circuit that accesses a pre-treatment and a post-treatment image of a region of tissue demonstrating non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC), a segmentation and registration circuit that annotates the tumor represented in the images, and that registers the pre-treatment image with the post-treatment image; a feature extraction circuit that selects a set of pre-treatment and a set of post-treatment quantitative vessel tortuosity (QVT) features from the registered image; a delta-QVT circuit that generates a set of delta-QVT features by computing a difference between the set of post-treatment QVT features and the set of pre-treatment QVT features; and a classification circuit that generates a probability that the region of tissue will respond to immunotherapy based on the difference, and that classifies the region of tissue as a responder or non-responder. Embodiments may generate an immunotherapy treatment plan based on the classification.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 9, 2018
    Date of Patent: October 15, 2019
    Assignee: Case Western Reserve University
    Inventors: Anant Madabhushi, Yuanqi Xie, Vamsidhar Velcheti
  • Patent number: 10441216
    Abstract: Methods to identify and risk stratify disease states, cardiac structural defects, functional cardiac deficiencies induced by teratogens and other toxic agents, pathological substrates, conduction delays and defects, and ejection fraction using single channel biological data obtained from the subject. A modified Matching Pursuit (MP) algorithm may be used to find a noiseless model of the data that is sparse and does not assume periodicity of the signal. After the model is derived, various metrics and subspaces are extracted to characterize the cardiac system. In another method, space-time domain is divided into a number of regions (which is largely determined by the signal length), the density of the signal is computed in each region and input to a learning algorithm to associate them to the desired cardiac dysfunction indicator target.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 20, 2018
    Date of Patent: October 15, 2019
    Assignee: ANALYTICS FOR LIFE INC.
    Inventors: Timothy Burton, Shyamlal Ramchandani, Matthew Howe-Patterson, Mohsen Yazdi, Sunny Gupta
  • Patent number: 10441217
    Abstract: An eyewear set is provided, including: an eyewear; and a signal processing unit that is attachable to and detachable from a bridge of the eyewear, where the signal processing unit includes: an enclosure; a first electrode and a second electrode that are provided outside the enclosure and detect a biomedical signal of a wearer who is wearing the eyewear; a signal processing portion that is arranged inside the enclosure and processes the biomedical signal; a transmitting portion that is arranged inside the enclosure and transmits a processing result according to the signal processing portion to an external device; a power supply portion that is arranged inside the enclosure and supplies electrical power to the signal processing portion and the transmitting portion; and a mounting portion that attachably and detachably mounts the enclosure on the bridge.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 11, 2018
    Date of Patent: October 15, 2019
    Assignee: JINS HOLDINGS Inc.
    Inventor: Taiki Komoda
  • Patent number: 10441218
    Abstract: The invention relates to the field of magnetic resonance (MR) imaging. It concerns an oscillation applicator for MR rheology. It is an object of the invention to provide an oscillation applicator without restrictions regarding the usability for certain body regions. According to the invention, the oscillation applicator comprises at least one transducer which generates a reciprocating motion at a given frequency and a belt (19) mechanically coupled to the transducer, which belt (19) is designed to be wrapped around a patient's body (10). Moreover, the invention relates to a MR device (1) and to a method of MR imaging.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 30, 2013
    Date of Patent: October 15, 2019
    Assignee: KONINKLIJKE PHILIPS N.V.
    Inventors: Peter Vernickel, Christoph Leussler, Daniel Wirtz, Peter Mazurkewitz
  • Patent number: 10441219
    Abstract: A device (10, 10?, 10?) includes a light source (12) and a light detector (14) spaced from, and in communication with, the light source (12). An electronic processor (18) is programmed to compute pulse oximetry data from output of the light detector (14). A clamping member (26) is included, on or in which the light source (12) and the light detector (14) are disposed. The clamping member (26) is configured for attachment to a human body part with the body part disposed between the light source (12) and the light detector (14) such that light from the light source (12) passes through the body part to reach the light detector (14). The clamping member (26) is configured to attach to the body part by transitioning from a first stable state to a second stable state via a compression force applied to the clamping member (26).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 23, 2016
    Date of Patent: October 15, 2019
    Assignee: KONINKLIJKE PHILIPS N.V.
    Inventors: Wouter Herman Peeters, Egbertus Reinier Jacobs, Rick Bezemer, Jens Muehlsteff
  • Patent number: 10441220
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a wearable display device. According to an exemplary embodiment, the wearable display device includes: a display unit configured to display an image; a wearing means configured to fix the display unit on a body part; a plurality of sensors positioned on one surface of the wearing means and configured to contact a measuring target to measure a bio-signal from the measuring target; and a wearing means adjustment section included in the display unit and configured to adjust a length of the wearing means contacting the measuring target of the wearing means by using the bio-signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 16, 2016
    Date of Patent: October 15, 2019
    Assignee: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Min Su An
  • Patent number: 10441221
    Abstract: A medical device, such as a prosthesis, may include a graft material and a pocket disposed along at least one of luminal and abluminal surfaces of the graft material. The pocket may include a pocket opening leading into an enclosed cavity. The enclosed cavity may be sized to receive at least a portion of a microsystem, and the pocket may be accessible in vivo for removal of the microsystem from the pocket.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 26, 2017
    Date of Patent: October 15, 2019
    Assignee: COOK MEDICAL TECHNOLOGIES LLC
    Inventor: Ralf Spindler
  • Patent number: 10441222
    Abstract: An endoscopy sigmoid support apparatus that includes a primary wrap sized for placement around a subject's lower abdomen. A closing mechanism is provided at the end of the primary wrap to secure the primary wrap around the abdomen of the subject by attaching a first end of the primary wrap to a second portion of the primary wrap. A strap extends from the primary wrap and is configured to extend across at least a portion of the primary wrap and to fasten to a third portion of the primary wrap to adjust the amount of pressure applied by the endoscopy sigmoid support apparatus.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 18, 2014
    Date of Patent: October 15, 2019
    Assignee: Colowrap, LLC
    Inventor: James Hathorn
  • Patent number: 10441223
    Abstract: A personal wearable EEG monitor comprising an implantable electrode part with at least two electrodes (2,3) for measuring an EEG signal of a person. The electrode part comprises an electronic circuit arranged in a housing (1) with each electrode arranged external to the housing. The electrode part comprises a testing circuit for testing functionality of the electrode part. The testing circuit comprises a capacitor (9) coupled in serial connection to at least one of the electrodes, and a test signal generator for providing a test signal. The EEG monitor is adapted for analyzing the signal resulting from the signal generator for identification of faults in the electrode part. The invention further provides a method for detecting a leak current in an implanted EEG monitor part.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 20, 2015
    Date of Patent: October 15, 2019
    Assignee: T&W Engineering A/S
    Inventors: Soren Kilsgaard, Morten Holm Jensen
  • Patent number: 10441224
    Abstract: A system includes a sensor configured to sense physiological information from a subject, and a signal processor configured to process signals from the sensor into a serial data stream of physiological information and sensor performance information. An electronic device having a display is configured to receive the serial data stream and display the physiological information simultaneously with the sensor performance information via the display.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 9, 2016
    Date of Patent: October 15, 2019
    Assignee: Valencell, Inc.
    Inventors: Steven Francis LeBoeuf, William M. Richey, Michael Edward Aumer
  • Patent number: 10441225
    Abstract: Embodiments include operations, apparatus, methods and other embodiments that access a baseline CT image of a region of tissue (ROT) demonstrating non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC), segment a tumoral region represented in the baseline CT image; define a peritumoral region by dilating the tumoral boundary; extract a set of tumoral radiomic features from the tumoral region, a set of peritumoral radiomic features from the peritumoral region, and a set of clinico-pathologic features from the baseline CT image; provide the set of tumoral radiomic features, peritumoral radiomic features, and clinico-pathologic features to a machine learning classifier; receive, from the machine learning classifier, a time-to-recurrence post trimodality therapy (TMT) prediction, based on the set of tumoral radiomic features, peritumoral radiomic features, and clinico-pathologic features; generate a classification of the ROT as an MPR responder or MPR non-responder based, at least in part, on the time-to-recurrence post-TMT predicti
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 31, 2018
    Date of Patent: October 15, 2019
    Assignee: Case Western Reserve University
    Inventors: Anant Madabhushi, Mohammadhadi Khorrami, Vamsidhar Velcheti
  • Patent number: 10441226
    Abstract: A radiation system includes a first ring, a radiation source capable of providing radiation suitable for treating a patient, the radiation source secured to the first ring, a second ring located behind the first ring, and an imager secured to the second ring. A radiation system includes a first device having a radiation source capable of generating a radiation beam suitable for treating a patient, and a second device having imaging capability, wherein the first device is oriented at an angle that is less than 180° relative to the second device. A radiation system includes a structure having a first opening, a radiation source rotatably coupled to the structure, an imaging device rotatable relative to the structure, and a processor for controlling a rotation of the radiation source and a rotation of the imaging device, wherein the radiation source is rotatable relative to the imaging device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 23, 2017
    Date of Patent: October 15, 2019
    Assignee: Varian Medical Systems, Inc.
    Inventors: Timothy E. Guertin, Richard H. Stark, Raymond D. McIntyre, Steven W. Prince, Stanley Mansfield, George A. Zdasiuk
  • Patent number: 10441227
    Abstract: A cephalostat for acquiring teleradiographic images through an extraoral radiographic apparatus includes a pair of earpieces at the ends of two shafts and a small bar for resting again the nasion, these components being manually adjustable to adjust them to the skull of the patient under examination, wherein the cephalostat is free from metallic elements in the parts on which X-rays impinge, with the exception of radio-opaque markers, and is interchangeable with a craniostat fixed in the same apparatus seat.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 19, 2017
    Date of Patent: October 15, 2019
    Inventors: Martino Fasoli, Giacomo Zoccatelli
  • Patent number: 10441228
    Abstract: An imaging breast examination apparatus for medical examination of a breast includes an insertable compression plate for compressing the breast. An electric motor which is disposed outside the compression plate in the breast examination apparatus serves to generate a rotation movement. A mechanical interface transmits the rotation movement of the electric motor to the compression plate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 24, 2016
    Date of Patent: October 15, 2019
    Assignee: Siemens Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventor: Marcus Radicke
  • Patent number: 10441229
    Abstract: According to one embodiment, an X-ray CT apparatus includes a gantry, a table on which an object is placed, a bed, and processing circuitry. The gantry is equipped with an X-ray source and an X-ray detector. The bed includes a moving mechanism which is configured to move the table in a horizontal direction and in a vertical direction. The processing circuitry performs a main scan and a prescan. The prescan is performed prior to the main scan. The processing circuitry calculates displacement of the table in the vertical direction and also calculates an angle of the table from the horizontal direction using data acquired in the prescan, and controls a position of the table and an angle of the gantry based on the displacement of the table and the angle of the table.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 1, 2017
    Date of Patent: October 15, 2019
    Assignee: Canon Medical Systems Corporation
    Inventors: Hiroki Osaki, Takahito Watanabe, Shigeru Usuda
  • Patent number: 10441230
    Abstract: The invention relates to a projection data acquisition apparatus (31) for acquiring projection data. The projection data acquisition apparatus comprises a radiation device (32) for generating a pulsed radiation beam (4) for traversing an object and a detection device (6) for generating projection data being indicative of the pulsed radiation beam (4) at different acquisition positions, wherein the radiation device (32) is adapted to generate the pulsed radiation beam (4) such that at different acquisition positions the pulsed radiation beam (4) has different shapes, i.e. is differently blocked and/or attenuated. Thus, not the complete radiation providable by the radiation device is used at each acquisition position, but at least at some acquisition positions only a smaller pulsed radiation beam is used. This can lead to less scattered radiation and hence to improved projection data and an improved computed tomography image, which may be reconstructed based on the acquired projection data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 13, 2015
    Date of Patent: October 15, 2019
    Assignee: KONINKLIJKE PHILIPS N.V.
    Inventors: Roland Proksa, Michael Grass
  • Patent number: 10441231
    Abstract: A system of shields designed to provide substantially greater protection, head to toe, against radiation exposure to health care workers in a hospital room during procedures which require real-time imaging. The shields are placed around the patient and the x-ray table and provide protection even when the x-ray tube is moved to various angles around the patient.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 11, 2018
    Date of Patent: October 15, 2019
    Assignee: Egg Medical, Inc.
    Inventors: Robert F. Wilson, Uma S. Valeti, John P. Gainor
  • Patent number: 10441232
    Abstract: An X-ray imaging apparatus is configured so that an height-position composition element 15 sends a directive to an angle driving element 44 in an imaging element 4, and the height-position compensation element 15 corrects the height-position of the X-ray tube 42 by driving of the up-and-down driving element 44 in conjunction with the imaging region that the imaging region data recognition element 14 of the console element 1, the angle of the X-ray tube 42 is corrected so that the X-ray irradiation angle of the X-ray from the X-ray tube 42 faces downward; and when the height-position compensation element 15 corrects the height-position of the X-ray tube 42 downward, the angle of the X-ray tube 42 is corrected so that the X-ray irradiation angle of the X-ray from the X-ray tube 42 faces upward.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 22, 2015
    Date of Patent: October 15, 2019
    Assignee: SHIMADZU CORPORATION
    Inventors: Ken Shirota, Tomoharu Okuno
  • Patent number: 10441233
    Abstract: An imaging control apparatus for an X-ray imaging apparatus which performs X-ray imaging in accordance with a plurality of pieces of imaging information displayed in an information display area of a display unit includes a display control unit which controls the display position of prepared imaging information in the completed state of preparation for X-ray imaging and the display position of unprepared imaging information in the uncompleted state of preparation for X-ray imaging in accordance with a reference position set in the information display area.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 15, 2016
    Date of Patent: October 15, 2019
    Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Noboru Inoue
  • Patent number: 10441234
    Abstract: An X-ray phase-contrast imaging device capable of easily performing imaging of an object using X-rays of plural energies is provided. The disclosed exemplary configuration includes an X-ray source of a dual energy output type, and an FPD having a high energy X-ray detection surface and a low energy X-ray detection surface so that two types of imaging, imaging by high energy X-ray and imaging by low energy X-ray, can be performed. By imaging so as to scan the object while changing the relative position of the imaging system and the object, two types of imaging can be completed at once.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 15, 2017
    Date of Patent: October 15, 2019
    Assignee: Shimadzu Corporation
    Inventors: Koichi Tanabe, Shingo Furui, Hiroyuki Kishihara, Kenji Kimura, Taro Shirai, Takahiro Doki, Satoshi Sano, Akira Horiba
  • Patent number: 10441235
    Abstract: Methods and systems for manually assisted definition of vascular features are described. In some embodiments, vascular centerlines identified by image analysis are divided into segments. Optionally, one or more candidate paths extending to the vascular root position along chains of segments are generated for each of a plurality of vascular endpoint. Selection of paths which correspond to anatomical paths of blood flow is optionally based on manual review. Optionally, paths are manually defined, for example, based on selection of a plurality of waypoints. Optionally, paths are edited by use of an active contour method that allows relative rough indication of corrections to be transformed into path changes that conform closely to the geometry of nearby vasculature.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 20, 2018
    Date of Patent: October 15, 2019
    Assignee: CathWorks Ltd.
    Inventors: Guy Lavi, Ofek Shilon, Sarit Semo, Omri Harish, Asaf Shimshovitz
  • Patent number: 10441236
    Abstract: A coordinate system registration module, including radiopaque elements arranged in a fixed predetermined pattern and configured, in response to the radiopaque elements generating a fluoroscopic image, to define a position of the module in a fluoroscopic coordinate system of reference. The module further includes one or more connections configured to fixedly connect the module to a magnetic field transmission pad at a predetermined location and orientation with respect to the pad, so as to characterize the position of the registration module in a magnetic coordinate system of reference defined by the magnetic field transmission pad.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 3, 2013
    Date of Patent: October 15, 2019
    Assignee: BIOSENSE WEBSTER (ISRAEL) LTD.
    Inventors: Meir Bar-Tal, Tamir Demri, Tal Haim Bar-on, Eliahu Zino, Ran Glazer, Gil Zigelman, Dror Berman
  • Patent number: 10441237
    Abstract: A motion correction method includes two steps. The first step includes a global motion correction using the bilinear warping technique and a rough delineation of the lung fields. One of the native images (low energy image, high energy image) is deformed to match the other image. In a second step, local motion corrections are applied to the globally motion corrected image by computing a proximity value in small overlapping tiles. Only tiles with a sufficient high proximity value are taken into account. The maximum shift applied in this second step is limited to a few pixels to avoid strong deformations of the native images.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 15, 2015
    Date of Patent: October 15, 2019
    Assignee: AGFA NV
    Inventor: Tom Bertens
  • Patent number: 10441238
    Abstract: A radiation imaging apparatus is provided. The apparatus comprises a scintillator configured to convert radiation into light, a sensor panel in which a plurality of pixels each comprising a light detector configured to detect the light is arranged, and a processing unit. The processing unit comprises a conversion unit configured to output a detection signal in accordance with a signal generated in the light detector by the incident light and radiation that has transmitted through the scintillator without being converted into light, and a reset control unit configured to determine that the light detector detects the transmitted radiation based on a magnitude of the detection signal and reset the conversion unit if the light detector is determined to detect the transmitted radiation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 3, 2016
    Date of Patent: October 15, 2019
    Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Kosuke Terui, Atsushi Iwashita, Katsuro Takenaka, Shinichi Takeda
  • Patent number: 10441239
    Abstract: An X-ray diagnostic apparatus according to this embodiment includes: a memory circuitry configured to store a program; and a processing circuitry configured to read the program from the memory circuitry, and execute the program, wherein the processing circuitry is configured to identify a predetermined three-dimensional region of a patient at a predetermined position based on multiple X-ray images taken in at least two directions, and adjust an X-ray irradiation range based on the identified three-dimensional region and on system position information that includes irradiation position information where the patient is irradiated.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 31, 2016
    Date of Patent: October 15, 2019
    Assignee: Canon Medical Systems Corporation
    Inventor: Shingo Abe
  • Patent number: 10441240
    Abstract: A method of monitoring a radiation amount received from an X-ray source in an X-ray imaging system for taking an X-ray image of an object includes the steps of obtaining one or more depth images from one or more depth cameras; the one or more depth cameras covering at least an area covered by an X-ray bundle of an X-ray source of the X-ray imaging system; positioning the object against or on a surface including radiation measurement chambers and identifying select radiation measurement chambers underneath the object from the one or more depth images and/or from a single depth image derived from the one or more depth images; and activating the select radiation measurement chambers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 29, 2015
    Date of Patent: October 15, 2019
    Assignee: AGFA NV
    Inventor: Gert Merckx
  • Patent number: 10441241
    Abstract: The present application relates to a remote exposure control device, a digital radiography system and an exposing method for the system. The remote exposure control device comprises: a power source module, a sensing module electrically connected to the power source module, a processing module electrically connected to the power source module, and a communication module, wherein: the sensing module is electrically connected to the communication module and the processing module respectively; the communication module is configured to communicate with a flat panel detector (FPD) paired with a digital radiography system; and the processing module is configured to, after receiving a trigger signal sent by the sensing module, control the communication module to send an awakening instruction or a power-on instruction to the FPD, so that the FPD is awakened from a sleeping state or a power-off state to a working state.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 25, 2016
    Date of Patent: October 15, 2019
    Assignee: CareRay Digital Medical Technology Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Jianqiang Liu, Daming Ren, Xianguo Huang, Peng Gao
  • Patent number: 10441242
    Abstract: An X-ray apparatus includes an X-ray source configured to radiate X-rays, a collimator configured to adjust a radiation field of the X-rays and rotate on an optical axis direction of the X-rays, a ring-shaped first rotation transfer unit centered on an optical axis of the X-rays in the X-ray source, a second rotation transfer unit interlocked with the ring-shaped first rotation transfer unit and configured to rotate as the collimator rotates, a rotation sensor configured to sense an amount of rotation of the second rotation transfer unit, and a detector comprising a receiving surface on which the X-rays radiated from the collimator are incident.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 29, 2015
    Date of Patent: October 15, 2019
    Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Dae-soo Kim, Han-ju Nam, Young-jun Lee, Jin-ho Choi
  • Patent number: 10441243
    Abstract: A body sound analysis device includes: acquisition means (210, 220) that acquires information relating to a frequency corresponding to a prescribed feature of a spectrum of a body sound; shifting means (230) that shifts, according to the information relating to the frequency, a plurality of reference spectrums that are references for classifying body sounds, and acquires a frequency shift reference spectrum; and output means (240, 250) that outputs a ratio of a plurality of reference spectrums included in the body sounds on the basis of the body sounds and the frequency shift reference spectrum. According to this body sound analysis device, a plurality of types of sounds included in the body sounds can be favorably analyzed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 28, 2014
    Date of Patent: October 15, 2019
    Assignee: PIONEER CORPORATION
    Inventors: Ryushin Kametani, Koichi Ishitoya, Tomohiro Miura, Hideyuki Ohkubo, Tsuyoshi Hasebe
  • Patent number: 10441244
    Abstract: A system and method for allowing any surgeon, including those surgeons who perform a fewer number of a replacement procedure as compared to a more experienced surgeon who performs a greater number of procedures, to provide an improved likelihood of a favorable outcome approaching, if not exceeding, a likelihood of a favorable outcome as performed by a very experienced surgeon with the replacement procedure. Force sensing is included to aid in quantifying installation of an implant, particularly a cup into a pelvic bone.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 3, 2016
    Date of Patent: October 15, 2019
    Inventor: Kambiz Behzadi
  • Patent number: 10441245
    Abstract: There is provided an endoscope apparatus in which a forceps elevator can be operated according to the operator's intention even when a treatment tool has large bending stiffness. The forceps elevator is erectably provided in a distal end part of the insertion part of the endoscope apparatus and guides the treatment tool led out from the distal end part. The forceps elevator has an erecting motion range from a minimum angular position to a maximum angular position. If a state in which the treatment tool is not led out from the distal end part is assumed, the erecting operation lever for operating the movement of the forceps elevator has: a first operation range where the erecting operation lever is operated within the erecting motion range of the forceps elevator; and a second operation range where the erecting operation lever is operated beyond the first operation range.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 22, 2015
    Date of Patent: October 15, 2019
    Assignee: FUJIFILM Corporation
    Inventor: Yasuhiko Morimoto
  • Patent number: 10441246
    Abstract: Systems and methods are provided for fast volume contrast imaging in C-plane (VCI-C) and Omniview acquisition.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 15, 2016
    Date of Patent: October 15, 2019
    Assignee: GENERAL ELECTRIC COMPANY
    Inventors: Stefan Denk, Harald Deischinger
  • Patent number: 10441247
    Abstract: A single element ultrasound transducer is fabricated from a laminate plate which produces multiple transducer elements simultaneously. The laminate plate includes the piezo ceramic, matching layer, and backing layer with rear electrode. The laminate plate is diced while mounted on nitto tape to retain the individual elements in position after dicing. The sides of the elements are covered with an insulating coating, which permits the transducer elements to be surface mounted on flex circuit by bonding the rear electrode to a signal conductor of the flex circuit and the matching layer to a return conductor by metallically coating the mounted transducer element and return conductor on the flex circuit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 29, 2014
    Date of Patent: October 15, 2019
    Assignee: Koninklijke Philips N.V.
    Inventors: Dennis Dean Clark, Barry Carl Scheirer
  • Patent number: 10441248
    Abstract: An ultrasonic device includes a substrate and a support member. The substrate has an element array including a plurality of ultrasonic transducer elements arranged in an array form. The support member has a surface adhered to the substrate in an area including the element array, and an opposite surface opposite from the surface adhered to the substrate, a distance from the surface adhered to the substrate to the opposite surface being different with respect to two adjacent ones of the ultrasonic transducer elements in the element array.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 28, 2014
    Date of Patent: October 15, 2019
    Assignee: Seiko Epson Corporation
    Inventors: Tomoaki Nakamura, Yasunori Onishi, Tomohide Onogi
  • Patent number: 10441249
    Abstract: An ultrasound diagnosis apparatus includes: an ultrasound probe; a display; an image processor; and a memory storing instructions that, when executed by the image processor, perform operations. The operations includes acquiring ultrasound data about an object; generating an ultrasound image, based on the acquired ultrasound data; generating a first marker for a first object of interest (OOI) which is not included in the generated ultrasound image; displaying the generated ultrasound image and a map image representing a viewing point corresponding to the ultrasound image, a viewing direction, a region that a virtual ray reaches, and a position of the first OOI; and marking the first marker to correspond to the position of the first OOI on the ultrasound image and the map image.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 19, 2015
    Date of Patent: October 15, 2019
    Assignee: Samsung Medison Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Han-eol Kim
  • Patent number: 10441250
    Abstract: Systems and methods are disclosed that facilitate obtaining two dimensional (2D) ultrasound images, using two or more ultrasound imaging modes or modalities, to generate 2D multi-parametric ultrasound (mpUS) images and/or to generate a three-dimensional (3D) mpUS image. The different ultrasound imaging modes acquire images in a common frame of reference during a single procedure to facilitate their registration. The mpUS images (i.e., 2D or 3D) may be used for enhanced detection of suspicious regions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 10, 2016
    Date of Patent: October 15, 2019
    Assignee: ZMK MEDICAL TECHNOLOGIES INC.
    Inventors: Rajesh Venkataraman, Saradwata Sarkar, Xu Yang, Michael Ahmadi
  • Patent number: 10441251
    Abstract: A fluid drainage system is provided which is configured to engage with a drainage tube engaged with a drainage site with a patient. The container has an internal cavity with negative pressure to impart suction to the drainage tube and can be engaged to the drainage tube without loss of negative pressure during the process. Secondary containers may be engaged to restore negative pressure to the first container and remove fluid therefrom. Walls of the first container may be shaped to resist deflection due to high internal negative pressure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 26, 2014
    Date of Patent: October 15, 2019
    Assignee: PFM Medical, Inc.
    Inventor: Marshall Kerr
  • Patent number: 10441252
    Abstract: We disclose a medical toilet that includes a system for interpreting measurements collected by medical devices on or in the medical toilet and for customizing the measurements to each user. The system may use information about the user to selecting which measurements to perform, select or modify parameters that apply to the measurement techniques, and select follow-up measurements that may be performed based on the first set of measurements. These decisions may be made according to the user's physical, demographic, or medical status information that may be entered into a controller connected to the medical toilet. The controller may apply a set of rules to the measurements and thereby determine a value which provides an estimate of the validity of the measurements and which may be used to make adjustments to subsequent measurements.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 23, 2016
    Date of Patent: October 15, 2019
    Assignee: Hall Labs LLC
    Inventors: David R. Hall, Dan Allen, Min Kang, Ben Swenson, Terrece Pearman
  • Patent number: 10441253
    Abstract: An endoscopic biopsy device for collecting samples. The device includes a tubular body having distal and proximal ends and jaws hinged to the distal end. The jaws operate between OPEN and CLOSED positions to secure a tissue sample. In the CLOSED position, the jaws define a sampling chamber. A collecting chamber for receiving samples is located within the body near the sampling chamber. A collecting member for transfixing secured samples is displaceable between a retracted position in the collecting chamber and a deployed position where the collecting member penetrates into the sampling chamber. The jaws include retaining elements projecting inwardly on a portion of the jaws. The retaining elements engage when the jaws are CLOSED, separating the sampling and collecting chambers from each other. The retaining elements disengage when the jaws are OPEN, providing a passage for the transfer of transfixed samples into and out of the collecting chamber.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 28, 2014
    Date of Patent: October 15, 2019
    Assignee: BioScopeX ApS
    Inventors: Tomas Gundberg, Ole Kjeldsen, Henrik Harboe
  • Patent number: 10441254
    Abstract: An apparatus, comprising: a biopsy needle having a distal end and a proximal end, all or a portion of the biopsy needle being movable between a collapsed state and an expanded state; a sheath having a distal end and a proximal end, wherein the biopsy needle in the collapsed state is contained within the sheath, and in the expanded state at least the distal end of the biopsy needle extends from the distal end of the sheath; wherein the biopsy needle is provided with two or more sleeves, which at least partially overlap in the collapsed configuration and which cylindrically expand to provide an increased radius, relative to a radius in the collapsed state, for sampling in the expanded configuration, and wherein a cross section of the distal end of the biopsy needle in the expanded state is a substantially circular cross section.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 22, 2016
    Date of Patent: October 15, 2019
    Assignee: SPIRATION, INC
    Inventors: Brandon J. Shuman, David H. Dillard
  • Patent number: 10441255
    Abstract: A multiple-purpose surgical instrument having a reflecting, rendering, and sizing tool to increase visibility and provide three-dimensional depth perception of a surgical site so that realization of a condition of the surgical site and safety are enhanced during an arthroscopic or laparoscopic procedure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 13, 2016
    Date of Patent: October 15, 2019
    Inventor: Stephan V. Yacoubian
  • Patent number: 10441256
    Abstract: Among other things, there are disclosed apparatuses and methods for medically sealing an opening in a vessel or wall. For example, in medical applications, a delivery tube is provided for insertion through a sheath into a vessel (e.g. a blood vessel). A dome-shaped seal fixed to a filament, an absorbent and/or compressible buffer, and a locking member are provided in the delivery tube. The delivery tube is configured so that it can be inserted into the vessel through a sheath. Tension is maintained on the filament to hold the seal against the tube or sheath. The sheath is pulled out, which pulls out the tube at the same time, leaving the seal over the opening in the vessel wall. The locking member compresses the buffer against the outside of the vessel and with the filament holds the seal in place against the inside of a vessel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 7, 2016
    Date of Patent: October 15, 2019
    Assignees: Cook Medical Technologies LLC, Cook Biotech Incorporated
    Inventors: Ram H. Paul, Jr., Cleon Stanley, Brian L. Bates, F. Joseph Obermiller, Thomas A. Osborne, Sean D. Chambers
  • Patent number: 10441257
    Abstract: An apparatus and system that includes an elongated body, a vascular closure device that can occlude a hole in a vessel wall coupled to a distal end of the elongated body, a sleeve assembly and a biasing member arranged to elastically deform coupled between the elongated body and the sleeve assembly, wherein the vascular closure device is pliant and is deformable to fit with the sleeve assembly but is too large to fit within the sleeve assembly without deforming it and where application of tension to the elongated body by retracting the sleeve assembly away from the deployed vascular closure device elastically deforms the biasing member and exerts a force on the vascular closure device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 24, 2017
    Date of Patent: October 15, 2019
    Assignee: Cook Medical Technologies LLC
    Inventors: Cleon Stanley, Ram H. Paul, Jr.
  • Patent number: 10441258
    Abstract: A medical device for treating an LAA is presented. The device includes a cap, a bulb and a joint assembly therebetween. The cap is a three layer mesh structure with a retaining hub securing the layers together. A plurality of proximal wire loops extend from the base layer to a proximal post of the joint assembly. The bulb has a plurality of distal wire loops that extend between a terminal post and a distal post of the joint assembly. The joint assembly comprises a first ball joint, a second ball joint and a housing. Each ball joint is retained in the housing independent ball and socket relationships. Each ball joint and post defines a longitudinal axis. The housing defines a housing longitudinal axis. By way of the ball and socket relationship each ball joint longitudinal axis may form an angle of between about 0 to about 35 degrees with the housing longitudinal axis in any direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 16, 2017
    Date of Patent: October 15, 2019
    Assignee: Cardia, Inc.
    Inventors: Michael Patrick Corcoran, Joseph A. Marino, Englong Tan
  • Patent number: 10441259
    Abstract: A wound closure apparatus can be a self-contained device for delivery and deployment of a wound plug. The apparatus can include a post having a first end and a second end, wherein the first end of the post includes a coupling attachment. The apparatus can include a rod having a first end, a second end and a rod cavity that extends from the first end of the rod to the second end of the rod. The apparatus can also include a wound plug, having a first end, a second end, and a breakaway connection located between the first end and second end of the wound plug. In in an assembled configuration, the post can extend through the rod cavity and be detachably coupled to the breakaway connection such that the first end of the wound plug is positioned adjacent the second end of the rod.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 26, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 15, 2019
    Assignee: Surgical Innovations LLC
    Inventors: Peter E. Bippart, Diane S. Kindred
  • Patent number: 10441260
    Abstract: An expander includes a first handle, a second handle, a first supporting member, and a second supporting member. The first handle includes a first gripping portion, a first pivoting portion, a first connecting portion, and an expanding compass. The second handle includes a second gripping portion, a second pivoting portion, and a second connecting portion. The second gripping portion includes a thru groove, and the expanding compass passes through the thru groove. The second pivoting portion is pivoted to the first pivoting portion. The second connecting portion and the second gripping portion are extending from two ends of the second pivoting portion, and the extension direction of the second connecting portion is not parallel to the extension direction of the second gripping portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 6, 2017
    Date of Patent: October 15, 2019
    Assignees: Megaforce Company Limited, Mackay Memorial Hospital
    Inventors: Wen-Chieh Wu, Shu-Fen Chen, Pei-Yi Lee
  • Patent number: 10441261
    Abstract: An apparatus for opening or closing a tissue opening in a biological subject, the apparatus including at least two flexible arms coupled to a tissue surface in use, each arm being curved outwardly in a mid-portion to accommodate a tissue opening therebetween and a biasing mechanism that selectively biases opposing ends of each arm to thereby at least one of bias mid-portions of the arms apart to assist in at least partially opening the tissue opening; and bias mid-portions of the arms towards each other to assist in at least partially closing the tissue opening.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 28, 2015
    Date of Patent: October 15, 2019
    Assignee: ROFFE MEDICAL HOLDINGS PTY LTD.
    Inventor: Kevin Marshall
  • Patent number: 10441262
    Abstract: Medical devices and methods for making and using medical devices are disclosed. An example medical device may include an access valve that may be retrieved after implantation. The access valve may include a frame having a lumen, a self-expandable member extending through the lumen, and an elastic membrane extending through the lumen and a second end of the frame to releasably seal the lumen. The access valve may releasably attach to a wall of a patient and releasably seal an opening through the wall. The access valve may be attached to the wall by placing the frame adjacent the wall, extending the self-expandable member through the opening in the wall, and expanding the self-expandable member such that the self-expandable member applies a first force against the wall and a second force opposite the first force against the frame to sandwich the wall between the self-expandable member and the frame.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 21, 2018
    Date of Patent: October 15, 2019
    Assignee: BOSTON SCIENTIFIC LIMITED
    Inventors: Javier Palomar-Moreno, Emma J. Mooney, Michael Walsh, Martyn G. Folan, Gary Duffy
  • Patent number: 10441263
    Abstract: Disclosed is a device for carrying out a distraction and/or compression of vertebral bodies.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 10, 2016
    Date of Patent: October 15, 2019
    Assignee: Silony Medical International AG
    Inventors: Frank Heuer, Timo Ohnmacht
  • Patent number: 10441264
    Abstract: A soft tissue repair assembly. The assembly includes a flexible member having first and second ends, and a strand passing through the flexible member. The strand has first and second strand ends extending through the flexible member, such that pulling at least one of the first and second strand ends changes the flexible member from a first shape suitable for insertion through soft tissue to a second shape suitable for securely lodging the soft tissue repair assembly relative to soft tissue.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 10, 2015
    Date of Patent: October 15, 2019
    Assignee: Biomet Sports Medicine, LLC
    Inventors: Kevin T. Stone, Troy M. Walters, Andrew Holst